This week, we got a look at the money, the duckets, the shekels, the cheese fueling this mayoral race.

Eric Johnson raised a half a million dollars in two and a half months. Lynn McBee is up to almost two-thirds of a million. We’ve topped $2 million collectively. Here’s our simple breakdown of all the numbers from last week.

After we got the campaign finance reports late Thursday afternoon, the Dallas Morning News’ data team went to work, churning out a helpful visualization of the donations. We get a revealing picture of what parts of the city candidates are putting in their asks. The accompanying story notes that many of the donors use business rather than home addresses, however, which does skew the data a bit.

Our addition below: to pick through each report to get a sense of candidates’ max donors. The most an individual can hand a candidate is $5,000. Johnson received 63 donations of that size. Max donations for the rest:

Miguel Solis—33
Lynn McBee—31
Regina Montoya—24
Mike Ablon—22
Scott Griggs—16
Albert Black—3
Jason Villalba—3
Alyson Kennedy—?

As always, the results of last week’s poll are listed below. Don’t you dare forget to vote. Less than a month until the election. Week six, y’all. Here we go.

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There is a narrative out there that it is difficult to tell who’s in the lead for the crowded mayoral race. Gromer Jeffers actually wrote about that very thing last week in the Dallas Morning News. Very few have major name recognition. And our voter turnout resembles, to be polite, something between a fire raging inside a metal garbage can and the trash island floating in the Pacific. (Just 6 percent of you voted in the last mayoral election; this week is the final week to register, so do that if you haven’t.)

Most of the polling we’ve heard about pits six or seven of the candidates very tightly together before a steep drop off, but we haven’t seen any of these beyond second and third-hand conversation. So what other ways can we gauge who is leading the pack? Yard signs? Mike Ablon seems to have found every fence in Dallas. I see a lot of Lynn McBee around Oak Lawn. Jim Schutze is speaking Scott Griggs’ lead into existence.

On April 5, we’ll get our first look at something that usually puts these things into context: campaign donations. That’s when the first filing reports since January—when not all were even in the race—will be made public. But first, as noted last week, we received some self-reported clues courtesy The Dallas Morning News’ voter guide. Ablon has apparently raised $600,000.

Jason Villalba, however, has not. He has raised about $50,000. But he won our poll this week. So he has that. Onto week five!

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William Taylor, who works upstairs at our sister paper, Preston Hollow People, helped go through the addresses of many of those who registered to attend the debate between former Mayor Laura Miller and Councilwoman Jennifer Staubach Gates. Miller is challenging Gates for her council seat. The paper organized it, and D editor Tim Rogers was all set to moderate. But then Gates pulled out late last week, raising concerns that the event had sold out so quickly because it was being flooded with people who don’t live in the district. The 250 tickets were indeed gone within 48 hours—but it appears that happened because there is intense attention being paid to the race by people who are eligible to vote in it.

William reports that of the 250 people who registered to attend, 174 gave their addresses. And of those, just 12 were from outside District 13.

The Dallas Morning News this morning published its voter guide, which includes plenty of interesting information about the municipal races. Want to see Councilman Philip Kingston excoriate the mayor’s tenure? Here you are. Want to see how masterful Laura Miller is at sidestepping questions about the performance of the mayor, city manager, and police chief? Right here. Curious about the differences between Giovanni Valderas, Chad West, and Sylvana Alonzo, who are running to replace term-limited Scott Griggs in District 1? Here’s Valderas, here’s West, here’s Alonzo.

A cursory read-through shows that the Morning News did a good job of tailoring questions for each of the districts. The guide gives the candidates the opportunity to explain themselves about their varying priorities. Also interesting—it’s a sneak peek of next week’s first campaign finance report in the mayor’s race. Developer Mike Ablon is leading the self-reporting pack with about $600,000. Albert Black, Regina Montoya, and Miguel Solis all report bringing in about $400,000 or more.

Yesterday afternoon in the Nasher Sculpture Center, seven Dallas mayoral candidates said they supported increasing arts funding during the next fiscal year to implement the recently adopted Cultural Plan. That plan, which counts among its priorities the need to send more money to small and mid-size organizations and individuals instead of large institutions, was adopted by the City Council late last year. It was at the center of Monday’s debate.

All of the mayoral candidates were there, sans state Rep. Eric Johnson, who was in Austin fulfilling legislative duties, and the socialist candidate Alyson Kennedy, who was apparently out of the country. The forum is the only one currently planned for the sole purpose of discussing arts and culture. It was moderated by Chris Heinbaugh, a vice president of external affairs at the AT&T Performing Arts Center and a former journalist.

Within the arts community, many are watching the race to see who would support the Cultural Plan’s request to increase the amount of hotel occupancy taxes that go to arts funding from 2.6 percent to 13 percent. That move would put Dallas in line with other large cities in Texas. Currently, a majority of the tax goes to the beleaguered VisitDallas, the city’s convention and visitor’s promotion arm that recently came under fire for lacking accountability on how it spent its money. We aren’t talking about small change, either: 2.6 percent is $1.7 million. Jumping to 13 percent would mean $8.5 million.

North Oak Cliff Councilman Scott Griggs, who was in the minority in supporting canceling the contract with VisitDallas, said he would support sending the state-allowed maximum of 15 percent to cultural causes. He said he trusted the arts community to be better stewards of the money than VisitDallas. He added that the $22 million allocated to the Office of Cultural Affairs isn’t enough to grow the arts in the city. He said he’s tired of seeing small art organizations claw for relatively small amounts of funding.

“$22 million going to the Office of Cultural Affairs isn’t enough to implement this plan, and we can implement this plan—all it comes down to is money and our priorities” Griggs said.

There will be no March 28 debate between District 13 Councilwoman Jennifer Staubach Gates and her challenger, former mayor Laura Miller. Gates late last week backed out, saying that the event sold out before she could notify her constituents. Preston Hollow People, our sister paper that organized the event, reported that the 250 seats at Preston Hollow United Methodist were booked almost immediately. Eighty people were on a waiting list. I’d waited a couple days to put this here in case they found a bigger venue, but that doesn’t appear in the cards.

I do have quotes from Gates’ campaign staffer, Adrian Bakke, who left a voicemail with publisher Pat Martin: “I’m afraid we are going to have to withdraw. Jennifer was looking forward to it, but the way it kind of ended up, we didn’t feel like it was going to fulfill the purpose of the forum.” They were concerned about capacity. Preston Hollow People and D Magazine were planning on streaming the debate on Facebook the paper had allowed anyone with a ticket to submit a question of their own for consideration.