{"id":498715,"date":"2026-01-07T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/498715\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:41:21","slug":"mayor-johnson-shrugs-off-campaign-fundraising-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/498715\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Johnson shrugs off campaign fundraising questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk37yrgf001z01vrqidcamsz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER (WBBM Newsradio) &#8212; Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson does not seem concerned about new reports suggesting he&#8217;s lagging potential rivals in raising money for next year&#8217;s citywide election.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk385lso002i357vsrwbi6wa@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/chicago-mayoral-election-how-mayor-brandon-johnsons-fundraising-stacks-potential-challengers\/18357338\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Channel Seven first reported<\/a> the mayor&#8217;s campaign fund has about $900,000 on hand, after raising $15,000 since the end of September. Compare that with the only declared candidate, entrepreneur Joe Holberg, who&#8217;s already raised $500,000.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk385z8g002p357v02lcqo9d@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Of course, the mayor is also expected to benefit from his ties to labor groups including his old employer the Chicago Teachers Union.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk385z8g002q357vluszgdf7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">After an appearance Tuesday at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., Mayor Johnson responded to questions about his fundraising ability by insisting he&#8217;s concentrating on his administration&#8217;s priorities.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk385z8g002r357v01lqta5e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">&#8220;My focus is on building the safest, most affordable big city in America,&#8221; the mayor said.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk385z8h002s357vauxhfabw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">He then sought to downplay fundraising importance by recalling his 2023 runoff win over his opponent, former Chicago public schools CEO Paul Vallas:\u00a0&#8220;I believe I was outspent three-to-one &#8230; and I&#8217;m still the mayor of the city of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmk385z8h002t357v6p7r57bk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Candidates can start collecting signatures in late July.<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: : Geoff Buchholz\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER (WBBM Newsradio) &#8212; Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson does not seem concerned about new reports suggesting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":498716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-498715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115853399591965826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}