{"id":15584,"date":"2015-10-15T11:14:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T18:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/bhullar-leads-campaign-fundraising-for-kent-city-council\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T16:55:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T23:55:28","slug":"bhullar-leads-campaign-fundraising-for-kent-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/bhullar-leads-campaign-fundraising-for-kent-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhullar leads campaign fundraising for Kent City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Hira Singh Bhullar leads all Kent City Council candidates in raising campaign funds with a total of $40,650.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Bhullar, in his first race for public office, has 11 individual contributions of the $950 maximum, according to the state <a title=\"link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pdc.wa.gov\/\" target=\"_self\">Public Disclosure Commission<\/a> (PDC) reports filed through Monday. He has spent $28,058 with the highest item $3,082 to Winpower Strategies for mailings. He has four entries at that price with Winpower.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Tina Budell, who is running against Bhullar, has raised $16,867 and spent $14,521. She has one contributor at $950 and a largest expense of $1,750 to Campaign Grid of Washington, D.C., for digital advertising.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Challenger Toni Troutner has raised $8,009 in her race against Councilwoman Brenda Fincher. Troutner has two contributions of $500 each and has spent $5,063, with a largest expense of $1,863 to Boruck Printing of Seattle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Fincher has raised $7,157 and spent $2,909. She has one high contribution of $500 and a highest expense of $600 to her daughter Crystal Fincher for campaign consulting.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Incumbent Les Thomas and write-in candidate Gwen Allen each filed with the PDC but neither one lists any contributions or expenditures.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hira Singh Bhullar leads all Kent City Council candidates in raising campaign funds with a total of $40,650.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":15585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15584"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}