Breaking down the numbers
Campaign finance reports show strong interest in this race: Collectively, the two candidates have garnered more than $900,000 in cash and in-kind contributions as of last week, with Woodward raising the most with $491,756.03 – 66% more than she raised in 2019. Brown had contributions totaling $442,780.14 so far. Both amounts have surpassed the previous contributions record of $395,023.59 from former mayor David Condon’s reelection bid in 2015.
Brown has had 20 years of electoral success in Spokane, a blue city in otherwise conservative Eastern Washington. Even in her failed 2018 bid for Congress against current Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers, Brown won handily in Spokane.
