The Phoenix‘s David Bernstein notes that Boston Mayor Tom Menino is doing very well among late contributors:

I was fascinated to see that Tom Menino just had a banner fortnight of fundraising, reporting $160,000 in campaign contributions between October 1 and 15 — the bulk of it coming, by my count, from 269 people ponying up the legal maximum of $500. Fascinated, because I’m thinking: if you’re going to pay fealty to the mayor, why wait this long to do it? Doesn’t it kind of make you look like you were waiting, maybe hoping for a Flaherty win, until the September preliminary convinced you that you’d better play ball with now and future mayor Menino?

Hmmmmmm….

Bernstein notes that many of the procrastinators are in the construction industry. It must have taken them this long to ponder their “pro” and “con” columns with respect to a fifth Menino term.