However, while disclosing their bottom-line dollar figures - usually a measure of how donors feel about a candidate's potential success - none of them shared the details of where their money came from, and how it was spent.
That information, as well as whether Nutter will keep his place as last year's top money-raiser, won't be revealed until the Jan. 31 filing deadline for campaign finance reports.
That's also when U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah and Tom Knox - a millionaire who in 2005 loaned his campaign $5 million - will say how much they have in the bank.
Asked to join the others in doing so yesterday, four months before the May 15 primary election, both Fattah and Knox declined.
If nothing else, though, the early fund-raising numbers suggest that Philadelphia's first-ever campaign finance rules are having an impact: There's less political cash circulating in this year's race for mayor. (The rules restrict mayoral candidates from accepting more than $5,000 a year from individuals, and $20,000 from political committees. Before, there were no limits.)
At this point in the 2003 race, Republican Sam Katz had more than $2 million in what was his ultimately failed effort to stop Mayor Street from winning a second term. Street himself then had about $2.3 million available to spend.
And in 1999, Democrat Martin Weinberg had $2.4 million in the bank four months before the primary, topping Street, who was then City Council president, with $1.7 million on hand.
Philadelphia-based media consultant Neil Oxman stressed yesterday that far more voters are interested in whether the Eagles will be victorious Saturday than the ongoing race to lead the city for the next four years.
