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Where Are The Mayoral Candidates Getting Their Money?

Where Are The Mayoral Candidates Getting Their Money?
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Editor, HuffPost New York

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NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 04: New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (C) attends a groundbreaking ceremony for the Hudson Yards development at the site which is expected to boast 13 million square feet of residential and commercial space on a 26-acre site on Manhattan’s west side on December 4, 2012 in New York City. The site was the largest undeveloped piece of property in Manhattan and is expected to create around 23,000 construction jobs. It will be the largest private development in the city since Rockefeller Center. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The race to be mayor of New York is in full swing, with no fewer than nine announced contenders seeking to fill the soon-to-be vacant seat. Candidates are raising millions of dollars in the hopes that New Yorkers will vote for them in the 2013 elections.

Their most recent filings with the New York City Campaign Finance Board show that that’s about all they have in common. Each has been cultivating a distinct base of support unlike the others’, separated by geography and industry. Some have spent years asking for donations, while others are only now scrambling to raise the necessary cash, or are dipping in to their own pockets.

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