Ellington

With all the noise surrounding former Gov. Haley Barbour's pardons, you might be forgiven for missing the final epilogue, if you will, from current Gov. Phil Bryant's election campaign.

The last campaign finance reports from the 2011 elections are up on the secretary of state's website. The latest reports cover donations and expenditures from Oct. 1 through the end of the year, and while most of the figures cover in the weeks leading up to Nov. 8, donations are still trickling in.

As we reported last month, Bryant drastically outspent his opponent, Johnny DuPree, and the latest reports show more of the same.

In the last three months of 2011, Bryant brought in $1.5 million and spent $2.1 million, about a third of what he spent in his campaign for the entire year ($6.3 million, for those of you who are following along in your campaign finance ledger books).

DuPree, on the other hand, brought in about $327,000 and spent just under $275,000---a fraction of what Bryant had to work with.