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Mary Sheffield and Rev. Solomon Kinchloch Jr. Wednesday night
Crain’s Detroit Business reports that Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield raised ten times more than her opponent, Rev. Solomon Kinloch Jr., in the last quarter, through Oct. 19.
Sheffield raised nearly $1.3 million during that stretch, bringing her campaign total to almost $2.8 million, Crain’s reports. Her campaign ended the quarter with $772,000 in the bank.
Kinloch reported raising $137,457 last quarter, bringing his campaign total to $661,000. He had $10,613 left in the bank and has loaned more than $145,000 to his own campaign since the start.
Big-name contributors to Sheffield's campaign include the Moroun family, Roger Penske, Rachel Stewart, CEO of Gardner White Furniture and the Gary Torgow family.
Sheffield garnered 51 percent of the vote in the August primary, compared to Kinloch’s 17 percent. Political observers say that’s a lot of ground to make up and are skeptical Kinloch can close the gap.
A Detroit News–WDIV poll showed Sheffield with a 50-percentage-point lead over Kinloch.
In a taped comment to WDIV's Flashpoint, which aired Sunday, he said: "I don't know who that poll is talking to. Because I'm out here on the street every day and that's not the feed back we're getting. The only poll I'm concerned about is the poll that people go to on Nov. 4. when they go to the polls. And at 8 o' clock when it closes, that will be the word of the land."
