How do our city candidates spend campaign dollars!

2018 Candidate Campaign Finance Report summary













The Campaign Finance Reports were supplied by the the City Secretary through a Freedom Of Information Request.

Copperas Cove City Council Place 1
                         Joann Courtland                                      Cheryl Meredith
30 Days Filed      Yes                                                          $500 modified
  8 Days Filed       No                                                            Yes
              Final      Yes                                                            Yes

Place 1 Summary: Mrs Meredith spent only $629 on her campaign. Mrs Courtland spent $3152.32 on her campaign. Neither candidate raised any donations for the run for city council. The result was Courtland defeating Meredith.

Copperas Cove City Council Place 2
                         James Pierce Jr                                        Fred Chavez
30 Days Filed      Yes                                                           Yes
  8 Days Filed      Yes                                                           Yes
              Final      Yes                                                            No

Place 2 Summary: Mr Chavez raised $2902.83 and spent $2539 for his campaign. He did not file a Final Report which is required unless he is going to file quarterly reports in which he missed that deadline, also.  Mr Pierce raised $4398 for his campaign and spent $4369.45. Mr Chavez defeated Mr Pierce.

Copperas Cove Mayor
                         Azeita Taylor                                           Joe Acfalle                                           
30 Days Filed      Yes                                                            Yes
  8 Days Filed      Yes                                                            Yes
              Final       N/A                                                           Yes
  8 Days Filed      No
              Final      No

Mayor summary: Mr Acfalle raised $50 for his campaign and spent $97.43. He did not receive enough votes to advance to the run-off. Mrs Taylor lent her campaign $110 and used her credit card spending $487.13. She did not file any reports for the run-off election, which is required. She ended up in a run-off election with the Mayor and lost in the run-off. I didn't request the Mayor's CFR due to circumstances.