Gov. Mike Leavitt has outspent Jim Bradley 4-to-1, while Attorney General Jan Graham has raised and spent twice as much money as her Republican challenger, Scott Burns.

Tuesday was the pre-election filing deadline for candidates for statewide offices, legislative seats, political action committees and political parties.Leavitt has raised $655,559 for his campaign this year and spent $643,348. Bradley, always the underdog who knew he'd have a tough time raising money against the popular Leavitt, has raised $164,543 and spent $142,493.

Leavitt has only $12,069 in cash in his account. But don't feel too bad for the governor. Leavitt also has a personal PAC, and that report shows he has $471,735 still in that account - money that he'll use for non-state expenses over the next year.

Graham, a Democrat in a Republican state, has worked hard at fund raising ever since her victory four years ago. Her new report shows she's raised $581,162 since the first of the year and spent $645,734. Her campaign is not in debt, however. She entered the year with a healthy war chest. Graham still has $69,801 in cash.

Burns, the Iron County attorney, has also worked hard at fund raising. He lost to Graham by a narrow margin four years ago and believed he could have won if he'd had more money to get his issues out at the end of the race.

Burns, who trails in the polls to Graham, has raised $335,229 and spent $327,857. He has only $7,372 in cash in his accounts, his reports show.

If you haven't heard much about Leavitt's or Graham's spending this summer and fall it's because there have been no campaign finance reports to report.

The Legislature several years ago revamped reporting requirements for state and legislative candidates and tied a September filing to the primary election date. Then two years ago lawmakers changed the primary date from September to June but didn't require a mid-summer or early fall campaign report to be filed.

The result is that this year Leavitt filed a pre-convention report in May, but since he wasn't challenged in the June 25 primary, he didn't have to file another report until Tuesday - five months later.

A look at Leavitt's report from mid-May to the end of October shows that he raised and spent 85 percent of the money used in his campaign without any report being filed.

Kelleen Potter, state elections director, says Lt. Gov. Olene Walker, the official state elections officer, is backing a bill in the 1997 Legislature that would require all state and legislative candidates to file a Sept. 15 report unless they are unopposed in the election. "That would give us a mid-election filing to show how much money is being spent and raised in contested races," said Potter.

Some highlights in the latest reports from Leavitt, Bradley, Graham and Burns show:

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- Leavitt has gotten money from just about every special interest group in the state and many individuals. The Utah Public Employees Association, the state's largest government union, gave $10,000; Blue Cross Blue Shield, $11,500; Geneva Steel, $7,000; Gold Cross Services, $4,000; and Key Bank, $5,000. The National Republican Congressional Committee gave Leavitt $28,500, which Leavitt a week later turned around and gave to the State Republican Party for a voter-identification effort. Leavitt gave Burns $15,000 and paid his family business several thousand dollars for use of family owned facilities in campaigning, like the Road Creek Inn in Loa.

- Bradley has loaned his campaign $20,000. He's gotten $6,000 from the State Democratic party; $25,000 from Bruce Bastian, co-founder of Word-Perfect; and $8,500 from companies owned by Ian Cum-ming and his wife, Annette. Much of Bradley's money came from local labor unions.

- Graham also got $25,000 from Bastian; $12,000 from C & F Management; and $25,000 from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, even though, of course, Graham isn't running for Congress.

- Burns got $50,000 from the Republican National Senatorial Committee, even though he isn't running for the U.S. Senate. Sens. Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch, both R-Utah, have been helping Burns raise money this year. Burns got $93,000 from the State Republican Party, meaning 43 percent of Burns' money has come from Republican party sources. The law firm of Democratic attorney Dan Berman (Berman ran against former GOP Sen. Jake Garn in the 1980s) gave Burns $5,000.

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