Alison Alter and her campaign entourage Credit: photo by David Brendan Hall

Eight-days-out campaign finance reports are posted to the City Clerk’s website for the two candidates slated for Tues­day’s run-off election for City Council District 10. Incumbent Sheri Gallo has raised $60,178, spent $71,152, and claims no money on hand. Her challenger, Alison Alter, raised a whopping $142,938, spent $89,985, and as of Monday had $95,879 on-hand. Both have lists of endorsements on their respective websites, which we’ve compiled below.

Sheri Gallo

Apartment Assoc. of Tarrant County PAC

Austin Apartment Association PAC

Austin Board of Realtors PAC

Austin Firefighters Association

Austin Police Association

Home Builders Assoc. of Greater Austin

AURA

Friends of Austin Neighborhoods

NAAO PAC

Austin-Travis County EMS Association

Real Estate Council of Austin PAC

Texas Apartment Association PAC

plus five former mayors who all live in D10

Alison Alter

Austin Area Sierra Club

Austin Central Labor Council

The Austin Chronicle

Austin Neighborhoods Council

Austin Progressive Coalition

Bike Austin

Clean Water Action

Workers Defense Action Fund

Travis Co. Democratic Party

and 11 other Democratic clubs

This article appears in December 9 • 2016.

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