In February 2012, Angela Wittrock of mlive.com posted 5 articles about Lansing mayor Virg Bernero's fund raising and spending:

• Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero raised more than $23,000 for mayoral campaign fund in 2011, spent most of it - February 3, 2012

• Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero continues to spend from gubernatorial campaign account, records show  - February 3, 2012

• Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero spent $13,702 from 527 account in six months, IRS records show - February 6, 2012

• Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero's 527 account pays for personal vehicle - February 13, 2011

• Christman Company, likely builder of Lansing casino, gave Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero's 527 $10,000 during negotiations - February 17, 2011

City Administrative Account (527)

I've been keeping track of the 527 account since 2009, providing complete lists of contributions and expenditures since the account was established in 2006. That story is here on this website.

Virg Bernero for Michigan (detail)

As you may know, Virg lost his campaign for governor in November 2010, but the campaign committee was not dissolved until June 2014. There were 18 contributions to the campaign in 2011, totaling $1064.01. Only 5 of those were "direct". The others were probably some sort of refund. Expenditures from the committee, however, totaled $36,508.86. In Angela's article, she gives the total as $23,133, a figure she apparently got from the report summary, but the expenditure detail adds up to $36,508.86. There have been no contributions or expenditures since 2011.

Virg Bernero for Lansing

I have compiled campaign contribution and expenditure detail for 2010-7/20/2017.

Year	Ending Balance
2010	$7,305.08
2011	$8,434.67
2012	$28,692.22
2013	$41,652.18
2014	$45,201.06
2015	$65,555.33
2016	$141,602.55
2017	$108,931.83	as of July 20

Contributions Combined

Finally, I thought it would be interesting to see together the contributions to the 527 account and the mayoral campaign, so I combined the contribution records for the 2 funds for the years 2010 through 2017 and then sorted them by employer so you could see which firms/employers were the big overall contributors. Here is the whole list. And below are totals compiled from that list, providing the number of individual contributions and the contribution total for those employers whose total was $5000 or more.

Employer	Number	Amount
Christman Company	46	49,200
BCBS	15	28,425
Miller Canfield	57	21,600
Board of Water & Light	84	20,000
City of Lansing	86	16,650
E. T. Mackenzie Company	12	16,375
Jones Development Company	5	14,000
UAW	3	11,600
Demmer Corporation	11	11,250
DLZ Michigan	10	11,200
Eyde Company	15	10,600
AT&T	5	10,400
Loomis Ewert Parsley Davis & Gotting	17	10,325
Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith	21	9,600
Boji Group	9	8,900
Emergent Biosolutions	18	8,720
Granger Group	11	8,275
Clark Hill	13	7,850
Clark Construction	16	7,550
Fishbeck Thompson Carr & Huber	9	7,550
Plumbers & Pipefitters	5	6,900
Neogen Corporation	6	6,575
Tetra Tech	29	6,550
Jackson National Life Insurance	5	6,250
Malcolm Pirnie	5	6,200
Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap	33	6,000
Gillespie Development	9	5,800
Accident Fund	4	5,600
Dykema Gossett	19	5,600
Kramer Management Group	7	5,600
Nth Consultants	17	5,350
Barron Enterprises	7	5,000