"She wrote herself a check for the remaining amount" in her campaign account, said Julio Garcia, county elections manager.
As part of her campaign finance report - due Monday for all county candidates - Workman also filed a candidate-dissolution form, which may have served as her final political act.
Multiple calls to Workman to see how she intends to spend the campaign cash were not returned Monday. Under state law, candidates can keep and spend that money however they choose. The former mayor - who faces two felony counts accusing her of misusing public funds - could have used her war chest to pay her legal fees.
But her attorney Greg Skordas said "she's already paid us."
Besides, he said late Monday, her defense tab won't come close to six figures.
"She doesn't owe us a penny," he said.
Workman is scheduled to appear today in district court on the charges that helped spell the end of her re-election campaign.
Workman never appeared on November's ballot, but still spent more ($859,427) than the three other major candidates, according to Monday's financial-disclosure reports.
Her Republican replacement, Ellis Ivory, spent the second most, but came up shy at the polls. Every penny of his $585,000 bid came from his own pocket. In the stretch run, the retired developer kicked in $235,000, but finished second at the polls.
Democrat Peter Corroon, a political neophyte who won in November by 7 percentage points, has since taken his post as one of the state's most powerful Democrats. His war chest topped $470,000 - all but $4,735 of which he spent on the victory.
Corroon's single largest contribution came from Wordperfect co-founder Bruce Bastian, who wrote a check for $10,000. The 40-year-old mayor - a cousin of former presidential nominee Howard Dean - also received $5,000 from Howa Construction, $5,000 from TL Consulting and $3,500 from Los Angeles-based Southwest Regional Council Carpenters.
Long-shot candidate Merrill Cook, who finished a distant third at the ballot box, trailed in fund-raising as well, amassing $42,123.
Cook and Ivory joined Workman in closing their campaigns. But, unlike the former mayor, their accounts were empty.
North Salt Lake resident Paul Bangerter isn't concerned about how Workman spends the $500 he contributed to her campaign last September.
"Whatever she wants to do is fine with me," he said.
Former Gov. Mike Leavitt used leftover campaign money for legacy projects. He donated a portion of his $340,000, for instance, to the "Keepers of the Flame Foundation" to document the history of his 11 years in office.
But Sen. Karen Hale, D-Salt Lake City, is sponsoring legislation that would prohibit pocketing campaign funds. Senate Bill 140 would provide definitions about personal use versus campaign use.
Hale said the loophole in state law needs to be closed.
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