Spending in the 13th District race this year — about $1.87 million so far — is going to have to accelerate greatly to reach the $5.3 million of that 2014 Davis-Callis race and the nearly $10 million spent in a three-way contest in 2012 that was aided by nearly $7 million in spending by independent groups not affiliated with the candidates. There's a lot of interest and a lot of money invested so far in the 13th Congressional District race between incumbent Rep.