A.G. Gancarski
State Senator Rob Bradley is in an enviable position. He has no competition right now, yet donations keep flowing into his campaign fund.
August’s haul: $14,500, from fourteen $1,000 contributions and one for $500.
All of that money is institutional. And its sources point to a remarkable geographic diversity, many of which are hundreds of miles from the Republican’s Fleming Island base.
$2,000 of it came from optometry associations: the Brevard Optometric Association and the Southwest Florida Optometric Association.
$5,000 of it came from the beverage industry: Daytona Beverages, North Florida Sales, two divisions of Burkhardt Distributing Company, and the Florida Beer Wholesalers PAC.
All told, Bradley has just shy of $370,000 in the bank.
Bradley, recall, was instrumental in the campaign to “free the growler.”
The Hazel Park Harness Raceway, based in Hazel Park, Michigan, ponied up $1,000.
Perhaps coincidentally, Hazel Park is struggling in Michigan. Its thoroughbred racing season was cut this year, because of what the Michigan Gaming Control Board called “overspending” on purses.
Hazel Park’s co-owner died earlier this year. It will be interesting to see if that ownership group makes moves into the Sunshine State.
The Dosal Tobacco Corporation, meanwhile, gave Bradley $500. He also got $2,000 from sugar interests.
