Garrison gave more than $439K of her own money in congressional bid

YOUNGSTOWN — During her failed bid to win the 6th Congressional District race, Democrat Jennifer Garrison gave $439,122 of her own money to her campaign.

That is 46.3 percent of the $949,151 raised by Garrison, who lost the Nov. 4 election to incumbent Rep. Bill Johnson, a Republican from Marietta, by 19.6 percentage points.

Of that amount, $428,000 were in loans, including $300,000 on Oct. 8, and $11,122 were contributions primarily to cover office expenses.

But on Nov. 7, three days after losing the election, Garrison, of Marietta, forgave $128,000 of the loans. On Nov. 17, she forgave $247,000 in loans and had her campaign repay $40,000 to her, according to her post-general-election campaign-finance report filed with the Federal Election Commission.

That means the campaign still owes her $13,000. As of Nov. 24, her campaign had $7,466.

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