VIDALIA — Campaign finance reports for the Seventh Judicial District district attorney’s race show one campaign spending serious money, while the others are running on a shoestring budget.

As of Aug. 25, when the last required campaign finance period ended, candidate Brad Burget had spent $41,283.18, Andy Magoun had spent $6,216.33 and Ronnie McMillin had spent $8,716.88.

The next report will be due today.

Those funds were disbursed from monetary and in-kind contributions — as well as loans — the candidates received.

Burget received $45,175 from donors, while Magoun received $9,497 and McMillin received $17,000.

McMillin’s campaign also received a $12,000 loan, while Magoun’s received a $2,600 loan. The loans to the campaigns came from the candidates themselves.

The McMillin campaign report listed only five cash donors, who gave a combined total of $350. However, eight donors gave in-kind donations, or donations in services rendered, valued at $16,650. McMillin was one of those donors, giving his recycled campaign signs from a previous election valued at $13,000.

Part of the reason he has not raised more money is because he did not realize that the current district attorney was not going to run for re-election, and so had not prepared to campaign, McMillin said.

“We were caught a little bit flat-footed,” he said.

Since then, though some people have given, the campaign has not made any real solicitation efforts.

“We haven’t asked anybody for money,” he said. “People have given us money, but what we have asked for is their vote and their prayers.”

The largest donation to the McMillin campaign was an in-kind donation of $800 from Mr. Whiskers, in Natchez, for Ostrich skin boots.

“Ronnie had joked about wearing out his boot leather, and this man told him, ‘I’m going to give you some sure-enough boots,’” said Susan McMillin, Ronnie’s wife and campaign manager. “He gave Ronnie those ostrich boots.”

The Magoun campaign received $4,493.90 in cash donations from 18 donors, the largest of which was a $1,000 donation from Monterey resident Glenn Lipsey.

The campaign also received $5,003 in in-kind donations, $1,851 of which came from Magoun himself in the form of yard sign donations.

The largest donation to the Magoun campaign was an in-kind donation of food and refreshments for a campaign party valued at $1,195, by Sarah Duncan, of Monterey.

Magoun said he has not actively solicited campaign contributions.

“My campaign isn’t about getting out and making a big stir with billboard signs or mass signs or extended newspaper advertisements,” he said. “My goal is to get it out and take it to the people, and it doesn’t cost a lot to buy a new pair of tennis shoes and walk the street.”

Though he made a loan to the campaign, Magoun said he does not plan to seek to get the money back.

“My intentions are to deplete everything I have, whether it be through the remainder being spent on some kind of party on Election Day or something like that,” he said.

All of Burget’s contributions came in the form of cash, and his campaign did not receive any loans. A total of 164 individuals gave to the campaign, including $2,500 from Ferriday resident Al Ater, $1,200 from Concordia Electric, $2,500 from Denning Farms, $2,500 from Terrell Williams, of Lake Charles, and $1,000 donations from Irion Bordelon Sr., of Baton Rouge, Connie and Travis Brown, of Ferriday, Sandra and Rex Burget, of Ferriday, Clyde Ray Webber, of Vidalia, and Joe and Delores Young, of Monterey.

Though there have been some big donors, a lot of contributions to the campaign have been unsolicited small ones, Burget said.

“We have been extremely pleased and overwhelmed,” he said. “To properly advertise and spread your message to the 20,000 registered voters in Concordia and Catahoula Parish, it takes funds, and people understand that.”

Burget’s campaign is run through a committee, which makes the decisions on how to spend the donated funds.

“That’s a requirement for judicial candidates but not for the district attorney,” Burget said. “I took it upon myself to run my campaign because it’s the most efficient, ethical way to do it.”