GOP interests, donors power Democrat Kim Daniels fundraising in HD 14
Kim Daniels, HD 14 candidate

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Just before the end of candidate qualifying, incumbent state Rep. Kim Daniels drew a primary challenge for her House District 14 seat from Duval County School Board chair Paula Wright.

Daniels, a first-term lawmaker from Jacksonville, answered the challenge with her best fundraising of the cycle in the two weeks between June 22 and July 6: $26,412, bringing her up to $47,227 raised with almost $28,000 of that on hand.

Daniels garnered her haul from an atypical donor base for a Democratic candidate.

Private prison mega-corporation The Geo Group and U.S. Sugar gave $1,000, as did First Coast Conservatives, the political committee of state Rep. Travis Cummings.

Also ponying up: friendly Republican donors, such as Peter Rummell and charter school impresario Gary Chartrand (along with Charter Schools USA).

Wright, is far behind in fundraising, after a very disappointing two-week period. She raised just $3,501, with donors including a school board colleague (Rebecca Couch) and the Duval Teachers Tiger Cope Fund.

Some Duval Democrats made a lot of noise about wanting a primary challenger to Daniels. However, institutional money and Republican money might make that outcry the epitome of “sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


One comment

  • Frankie M.

    July 13, 2018 at 2:43 pm

    Could say the same thing about that pawn Lawson.

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