Bob Leonard's campaign didn't fill in that box for loans outstanding on his campaign finance reports — a $100,000 omission.

Leonard's campaign cost more than it first appeared. His campaign finance reports didn't include a $100,000 loan balance in their summary pages, and the Republican — who finished third in a special election in HD-97 — had that much more at his disposal than it first appeared.

Leonard reported the personal loan to his campaign, made on September 1 as he began running for Rep. Anna Mowery's spot in the House. But he didn't report that as an outstanding loan at the end of that month or in the 8-day report he filed a week before the election. The reports left the impression he had no loans outstanding.

But he did.

So we're amending the chart that went with our original story on the election results. Since final expenditures won't be reported until the end of the year (that's the next reporting deadline for the candidates who didn't make the runoff), we added contributions and loans outstanding to get an idea of the resources available to each campaign. Leonard had it twice as good, financially, as we first reported.

A spokesman for Leonard suggested the problem was with filing software at the Texas Ethics Commission and not the campaign. Two other candidates in the HD-97 race — Mark Shelton and Jeff Humber — correctly reported their loan balances in their filings. They apparently didn't have the same problem, and officials with the Ethics Commission say they were using the same version of the software Leonard's campaign used.

State law gives Leonard 14 days to fix the mistake, and if he signs a form saying it was a "good faith" error, there's no penalty.

Here's our chart, with the corrected numbers:

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