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This story originally appeared in the Jackson Free Press. It was added to the Mississippi Free Press website in 2025.
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Under Mississippi sunshine laws, all candidates for public office must file campaign finance reports periodically during the campaign cycle.

The first round of reports were due on Jan. 31, and were set to include all funds received and expenditures made in Mississippi during 2012, as well as a total for cash on-hand. They are also required to include itemized donations if the individual donation is over $200.

Of the 14 registered candidates in the 2013 Jackson mayoral race, just two filed reports on Jan. 31.

Here they are:

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Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.