Wake County school board candidates Deborah Prickett and Horace Tart are the first ones to file their year-end campaign finance reports.
Tart's final report shows he spent $12,306.98 during his unsuccessful bid for a second term on the board. Toward the end of the campaign, he got $150 from school board member Anne McLaurin and $150 from former Raleigh Mayor Smedes York.
The report shows Tart paid $700 to the Raleigh-Wake Citizens Association's political action committee to be his poll workers on Election Day.
Tart paid $4,000 to state Rep. Nelson Dollar, a Cary Republican, to be his campaign manager.
Tart's break with the groups that had backed him in the past proved to be costly. Back when he ran as a critic of the diversity policy in 2005, he raised $45,053.79, which will likely stand as the second-highest amount collected in a school board campaign.
Click here and here for past Tart reports.
In Prickett's final report, she spent $4,855 in her successful bid to join the school board.
Nearly all the final donations that Prickett received came from PACs. She got $2,000 from the Wake Schools Community Alliance, $375 from Take Wake Schools Back and $125 from the N.C. Indian-American Political Action Committee
Click here and here for past Prickett reports.
The other candidates and PACs have until Jan. 29 to file a year-end report.
