Public Service Commissioner from Bossier Parish, finished second and fourth, respectively. Jindal prevailed in sixty parishes. Georges won 36 percent of the vote in Orleans Parish; that was his only plurality showing among the state's sixty-four parishes. Attention from the press Georges began running television ads for his campaign the last week in July. Georges candidacy has attracted the attention of the Greek press in the United States. The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate reported that Georges would tout himself as a political outsider and newcomer to state politics. Campaign finance Georges contributed around $5 million of his own money into his campaign account. Georges reports that he has over $7 million as of late July. About $120,000 came from donations from others to his campaign. Jindal, by comparison, reports around $7.5 million. However, Jindal has raised money from a greater number of donors. Georges spent almost $12 million on his campaign and garnered 186,800 votes. His spending amounted to $64 per vote, which represents the highest spending per vote for a gubernatorial candidate in any state in 2007. Veteran Louisiana political reporter John Hill notes that Georges made the largest known buy of television ads in the 2007 election. He purchased $2 million in advertising in August. The next largest known expenditure in this election was Walter Boasso's $1.3 million purchase for June. Jindal's campaign did not disclose its media expenditures. 2010 campaign for mayor Georges announced his candidacy in the 2010 New Orleans mayoral election on November 4, 2009. Despite spending more on his campaign the any other candidate, Georges finished a distant 3rd with 9.21% of the vote in the election which saw a victory by Mitch Landrieu in the first round of voting. References 1960 births 20th-century American businesspeople 21st-century American businesspeople 21st-century American newspaper publishers (people) American people of Greek descent Businesspeople from New Orleans Candidates in the 2007 United States elections Candidates in the 2010 United States elections Greek Orthodox Christians from the United States Living people Louisiana Democrats Louisiana Independents People from Baton Rouge, Louisiana Tulane University alumni