Fort Worth mayor hits $1M in campaign funds as candidates prep for May 3 election
Days before the May 3 election, sitting Fort Worth City Council members have continued to outpace their challengers in fundraising, with Mayor Mattie Parker maintaining more than $1 million in campaign cash as of April 25.
From March 25 to April 23, Parker raked in $563,827.11 in donations, bringing her war chest to about $1.04 million.
The position of mayor is the most contested of the 11 Fort Worth City Council seats on the ballot, with incumbent Parker facing seven challengers as she seeks her third term. Josh Lucas, a community ministries coordinator at Broadway Baptist Church whose campaign has focused on criminal justice reform, has raised the most money of the seven challengers, securing a reported $1,550 over the same time frame.
Candidates are required to self-disclose donors by filing campaign finance reports with the city secretary’s office during routine intervals before local elections. Fort Worth City Council candidates had a deadline of April 3 to file reports for the three-month period of Jan. 1 to March 24. They were expected to file updated disclosures on April 25, eight days before the election.
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