The totals from the 2019 campaign finance reports for Cambridge School Committee candidates are provided in the table below. This table will be updated when the remaining candidates file their year-end reports (which were due Jan 20, 2020).
The table can be sorted by clicking on any field – once for increasing order and again for decreasing order.
| Candidate | From | To | Start | Receipts | Expend | Balance | Liabilities | #1 Votes | $/Vote | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen, Ruth Ryan | 8/9/19 | 10/18/19 | $0.00 | $9,397.00 | $3,264.85 | $6,132.15 | $1,078.92 | year end report missing | 892 | $3.66 |
| Bowman, Mannika | 1/1/19 | 10/25/19 | $3,145.07 | $11,892.00 | $11,469.80 | $3,567.27 | $0.00 | year end report missing | 3107 | $3.69 |
| Dawson, Bernette | 6/11/19 | 12/31/19 | $0.00 | $4,793.00 | $4,121.82 | $671.18 | $0.00 | complete | 977 | $4.22 |
| Dexter, Emily | 1/1/19 | 12/31/19 | $0.00 | $3,710.01 | $3,710.01 | $0.00 | $6,350.54 | complete | 3003 | $1.24 |
| Fantini, Fred | 1/1/19 | 12/31/19 | $4,184.01 | $9,540.00 | $8,682.78 | $5,041.23 | $14,695.99 | complete | 2660 | $3.26 |
| Kadete, Elechi | 1/1/19 | 10/28/19 | $51.40 | $3,038.62 | $1,547.60 | $1,542.42 | $0.00 | year end report missing | 815 | $1.90 |
| Lim, Christopher | 1/1/19 | 10/18/19 | $0.00 | $3,025.00 | $2,883.57 | $141.43 | $0.00 | year end report missing | 934 | $3.09 |
| Rojas Villarreal, Jose Luis | 1/1/19 | 12/31/19 | $0.00 | $1,584.99 | $1,068.18 | $516.81 | $0.00 | complete | 1133 | $0.94 |
| Weinstein, David | 1/1/19 | 12/31/19 | $510.77 | $13,056.18 | $9,476.18 | $4,090.77 | $15,707.99 | complete | 974 | $9.73 |
| Weinstein, Rachel | 11/8/17 | 12/31/19 | $0.00 | $32,438.07 | $26,646.39 | $5,791.68 | $5,232.63 | complete | 2178 | $12.23 |
| Wilson, Ayesha | 11/8/17 | 12/31/19 | $0.00 | $13,135.00 | $11,045.64 | $2,089.36 | $400.00 | complete | 2689 | $4.11 |
Sun, Jan 5 – It’s the Eve of Inauguration of the 2020-21 City Council (10:00am start, City Hall) and School Committee (6:00pm start, Cambridge Public Library, Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway). Upon inauguration of the City Council, they will proceed directly to the Election of the Mayor (and then the Vice Chair should a Mayor actually be elected). There has been the usual chatter among residents (as well as some posturing of incumbents meant to suggest who might have disproportionate influence in the process) but other than the logic of those with high vote totals deserving an advantage in the selection, I have no specific information on how the vote will go. Often the person who is seen as delivering the decisive vote is rewarded by being elected Vice Mayor or getting choice committee assignments. I have attended these inaugurations every two years for a very long time and have generally found the mayoral maneuvering to be interesting, especially in trying to decipher which favors are granted to whom in exchange for votes. It would so much more interesting if there were actual horses being traded.
