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PARKERSBURG -- A candidate for the unexpired term in the West Virginia Senate 3rd District has topped $124,000 in spending, according to campaign finance disclosures filed with the Secretary of State.
Gregory K. Smith, a former legislator and retired chief executive of West Virginia Blue Cross Blue Shield, reported expenditures of $124,795 and contributions of $137,194 for the 2016 election cycle.
Smith is running against the Republican Mike Azinger, son of former legislator Tom Azinger, for the unexpired term in the 3rd District. The vacancy was created when David Nohe resigned to work for the West Virginia Parole Board.
Azinger, who is in his first term in the House of Delegates District 10, reported expenditures and contributions for the same period of $41,982 and $32,373, respectively.
Election day is Tuesday. Pre-general election campaign finance disclosures were due Oct. 26.
For the reporting period, Smith reported contributions of $16,050 and expenditures of $8,560.
He listed contributions of $250 or less totalling $1,700 from 11 people and organizations, $1,000 from attorneys Green, Ketchum, Farrell of Huntington, Michael Fuller of Hattiesburg, Miss., and John McHugh of Hattiesburg, $750 from the AFL-CIO and the United Mine Workers, $500 from David Sims of Vienna, Mike Woefel of Huntington, John Thomas of Vienna, David Romano of Clarksburg and the hospital association political action committee, $350 from the independent insurance agents PAC and $5,000 from himself.
Azinger reported 15 contributions totalling $1,925 of $250 or less, $1,000 from bankers and car dealers associations, First Energy, Lawrence Pack, Robert Karnes, Edward Howard of Charleston, $500 from Tim Matheny of Vienna, $350 from Janet Azinger and $300 from Reynolds American PAC from North Carolina.
For the full term in the 3rd District, incumbent Republican Sen. Donna Boley is running against Democrat Bradley Vanzile. A campaign finance disclosure was not immediately available for Vanzile from the Secretary of State.
Boley for the election cycle she reported contributions of $20,175 and expenditures of $16,208.
For the reporting period, she reported seven contributions of $250 or less, $1,000 from the car dealers association and First Energy, $500 from the realtors PAC, the chamber of commerce, the contractors association, the hospital association, Comcast Corp., oil and gas association and the WVBW PAC.