Part 2: Duggan’s son among 225+ people paid for mayor’s campaign work

Part 1: Duggan’s formidable political machine relies on deep-pocket outsiders

Mayor Duggan spent $1.2 million on his re-election bid since November, shelling out money to more than 225 people, including his son and an ex-felon, for work ranging from canvassing neighborhoods to conducting telephone polls.

A Motor City Muckraker review of Duggan’s campaign expenses found that the mayor is not taking his re-election for granted, spending serious money on consultants, pollsters, neighborhood canvassers, website developers and social media advertising.

Duggan, who is running for a second term, raised an unprecedented $1.6 million between November 2016 and July 23, relying heavily on big banks, suburban developers, corporate executives, political action committees and other deep-pocket movers-and-shakers.

Motor City Muckraker has found:

• One of the campaign’s highest-paid employees is Vaughn Arrington, who was fired as executive assistant for disgraced former Council President Charles Pugh for fleeing police in 2011. Arrington also served time in prison for a 1997 carjacking and armed robbery that he had committed when he was 16.

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• The mayor’s campaign paid Duggan’s son, Patrick Duggan, who lives at the Manoogian Mansion, $4,500 for consulting fees. In March 2017, Duggan’s son also began working as associate athletic director for the Detroit Police Athletic League.
• Duggan spent more than $87,000 on 214 “independent consultants” to canvass neighborhoods and erect and replace campaign signs.
• Of Duggan’s nine highest-paid campaign employees, five live outside of the city.
• The mayor paid his campaign manager, Enrico Razo, $32,235 since January 23. Razo served as district manager for Duggan’s administration from February 2014 to January 2017. He took a leave of absence to campaign for Hillary Clinton from August 2016 to November 2016.
• City Council candidate Jewel Ware received $2,000 for consulting fees, and her firm Diamond Networking collected an additional $12,000.

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• Radio host Jonathan Kinloch received $2,500 for consulting fees.
• The mayor spent more than $105,000 on Facebook ads, $59,634 on yard signs, $32,444 on brochures and $32,190 on buttons, bumper stickers and t-shirts.
• After getting endorsements from the Black Slate and the Eastside Slate, Duggan paid $14,000 to print out slate cards.
• Duggan spent more than $140,000 on legal fees.
• Four of Duggan’s highest-paid campaign employees – Abbey Dinsmore, Lauren Mondry, Lindsey Yono, and Stephen Mintline – live outside of Detroit.

Duggan enters Tuesday’s primary election with a significant fundraising advantage over his opponents but serious questions have been raised about his reliance on deep-pocket outsiders for donations.
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Coleman Young II, who only raised $22,000, is expected to advance to the general election with Duggan. Young, the son of Detroit’s first black mayor, said he’s running a grassroots campaign that doesn’t rely on big donors.

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Steve Neavling

Steve Neavling lives and works in Detroit as an investigative journalist. His stories have uncovered corruption, led to arrests and reforms and prompted FBI investigations.

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