Okay, so I just got back from the Mass Democratic Convention. I was wondering what the DTC numbers were for 2017. I haven’t run the numbers yet for last year.
Reviewing Boston again because for the election year 2016, I didn’t put anything down for the city. However, that isn’t entirely true. A number of the wards have committees, and in 2016, they collected and spent money.
For 2017, guess what, out of the 22 wards in Boston only 7 have active treasury reports into the State site for campaign finance for local democratic town committees. I assume that means only 7 wards are active out of 22 in the city.
Here the financials for all of the Boston wards together
Start Balance – $11,569.87
Receipts – $3,464.51
Expenditures – $3,993.93
End Balance – $11,040.45
This is quite good, $11,000 or so at the start of the year, and $11,000 at the end of the year. Except Boston is the largest city in the Commonwealth with 600,000 people, lets compare this to Massachusetts’ second city, and site of the convention today, Worcester.
Start Balance – $10,062.76
Receipts – $25,966.17
Expenditures – $31,480.43
End Balance – $4,548.5
Well, I don’t know about you, but I think it seems to me there’s a lot more going on in Worcester than there is in Boston at least when it comes to finances.
Interestingly, the Boston City committee hasn’t been organized since 1999, when Mayor Menino was the chair. If you live in Boston and are a Democrat, please consider joining, or organizing your local ward committee.