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Last year’s campaign finance reports are finally in to the state and local boards of election. Some are finally up online for your perusal here: http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/content.aspx?id=22.

The Guilford County board of election is doing a  Web site overhaul and won’t have the reports up for a while. Call them if you want to see them.

Here’s a round up of where money exchanged hands during the Greensboro City Council election.

The NC Realtors PAC, a statewide political action committee that gives to all types of candidates, gave money to nearly all the winning candidates from Greensboro:

• $1,500 to Councilman Robbie Perkins.
• $500 to Councilman Danny Thompson; Councilman Jim Kee; Councilwoman T. Dianne Bellamy-Small; Sandra Anderson Groat, who made an unsuccessful bid for at-large council member; and Yvonne Johnson, who lost her mayoral election.
• $250 to Councilman Zack Matheny, Councilwoman Mary Mary Rakestraw, and Councilwoman Trudy Wade.

The PAC didn’t give money to winning mayoral candidate Bill Knight or leading at-large candidate Nancy Vaughan – although they did donate to her husband, state Sen. Don Vaughan.

The Goerge C. Simkins Jr Memorial PAC, the longtime African America committee in Greensboro, collects donations from candidates it endorses to pay for a letter to black voters.

Here’s who gave the committee donations:

• $750 from Perkins
• $500 from Johnson, Kee, Councilwoman Nancy Vaughan, and Marikay Abuzuaiter.

The PAC didn’t get donations from other folks it endorsed: Matheny, Joel Landau, Wade or Luther Falls Jr.

Who had the most real-people financial support?

Not every City Council candidates solicits donations from the public. For instance, Bellamy-Small has been successful for years without actively raising money.

For those who do, the amount of donations from individuals could be a sign of general popularity among real folks – or voters with money.

Here are the council members who had the most financial support for regular folks this election cycle, as opposed to PAC contributions or loans.

It’s interesting to note that Thompson easily took an at-large seat, although he was far behind Vaughan and Perkins in the donations race. It might be worth considering how his other opponents stacked up as well (once those reports come across my desk):

• Knight: $28,794
• Vaughan: $24,099.01
• Matheny: $23,210
• Perkins: $19,330
• Wade: $18,122
• Kee: $7,795
• Rakestraw: $7,505
• Thompson: $3,334.99