By Della Hasselle
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Congressman Anthony Weiner has more campaign cash than any other potential 2013 New York City mayoral candidate, according to paperwork he filed with the New York Campaign Finance Board.
Weiner, 45, has more than $3.9 million in a city account he saved when he chose not to challenge Mayor Michael Bloomberg last year, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Five people contemplating mayoral bids provided the Journal with the details of their most recent disclosures to the Campaign Finance Board. Of those, Weiner and potential primary opponent City Council Speaker Christine Quinn will start the election cycle with a big financial advantage.
In addition to $5,000 from the six-month fund-raising period that ended Sunday, Quinn has roughly $2.7 million from when she shelved her plans for a 2009 mayoral campaign and instead ran for reelection to the City Council, the paper reported.
While Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, another potential contender, has less cash than Weiner and Quinn, with $600,000 he's collected the most money in the first filing period of 2013 cycle, and intends to carry over $1 million from last year's re-election campaign, according to the paper.
Former City Comptroller William Thompson, the 2009 Democratic mayoral nominee, is the only one to officially declare candidacy for 2013, but has yet to start raising campaign funds.
“It is definitely my intention to run for mayor in 2013 and we’ll begin that process in the latter part of this year,” Thompson told the paper.
John Liu, Thompson’s successor as comptroller, told the Journal he had raised $290,000 in the past six months, and that he did not plan to carry over any money from the 2009 campaign cycle.
“There is no plan for election or re-election or anything,” Lui told the paper. “The plan right now is to do the work that is absolutely critical in this ongoing crisis.”
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio declined to comment on his financial standing for the next mayoral race, the Journal reported.
Candidates who plan on participating in the 2013 campaign finance system are prohibited from spending more than $6.4 million for the primary and $6.4 million for the general.
Bloomberg did not participate in the Campaign Finance Board's matching system and spent $108 million of his own money on his general election campaign.
