HD 12 money picture muddled in January
Clay Yarborough leads the money race in HD 12

Clay Yarborough

The five-way Republican primary for the House District 12 race has lacked a clear narrative for months, and January only presents a more muddled picture.

The big question: Is Richard Clark still in the HD 12 race? Despite raising no money again in January, and only $2,000 since the end of April, Clark is still winning the money race with $50,500 raised.

Clark spent $2,600 in January: $500 to Data Targeting, and $2,100 for six months of accounting services. The latter is nice work if you can get it, given the utter stasis of the campaign of Clark, currently a six-figure lobbyist for the Jacksonville Transportation Authority.

The big mover: Clay Yarborough, who like Clark is a former two-term Jacksonville city councilman.

A $14,000 January pushed Yarborough’s total up to $28,560, with a negligible spend thus far during his three-month campaign.

Among the max donors: John Rood and Vestcor, as well as Mac Papers.

Missing from Yarborough’s reports thus far: significant PAC money.

Mark Maclean, a newcomer to the race, so far is mostly self- and family-financed. His $2,000 in contributions during his first month of fundraising had a lot of Maclean surnames in the mix. Don Redman, despite getting $200 from Tim Tebow‘s dad, has about $8,000 on hand after more than a year of fundraising.

Terrance Freeman filed to run on the first of February, and his March numbers will be worth watching.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski



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