Less than 24 hours before polling stations open, campaign finance records show the four hopefuls running to replace Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson netted roughly $2.2 million in donations. One candidate alone raised nearly half of that figure.
Former Mobile judge Spiro Cheriogotis, Stimpson’s endorsed successor, received $1,064,542.88 in contributions from the start of his campaign to last week, according to the latest Alabama campaign finance reports dated Monday, Aug. 18.