And just who might be more influenced by out-of-town interests?

I did some quick number crunching today based on the three campaign treasurer reports submitted so far. I looked at two individual campaigns in the District #2 Commissioner race - Commissioner Cara Jennings and Mary Lindsey. Cara Jennings so far has collected a total of $16,002.17 and Mary Lindsey has collected $14,938.11.

What I did is record all contributions by zip code on a spreadsheet. I then added them up and divided by the total value of all contributions. Local contributions reflected those from the 33460 and 33461 zip codes.

The total value of local contributions to the Commissioner Cara Jennings campaign is 48% - more than half come from out-of-town interests. Mary Lindsey's campaign has generated a total of 62% from local interests.

Here are two pie charts showing the differences:
You can draw your own conclusions. Cara's long distance contributions come from New Jersey, New York, Paris (the one in France), etc...

Oh, and who is "Al?"