A.G. Gancarski
Months back, FloridaPolitics.com asked Dick Kravitz how he would counteract the fundraising advantage of Jason Fischer in House District 16.
Kravitz was unconcerned, saying the money he needed would be there when he needed it.
January, for the fourth straight month, has proven that the Jacksonville political veteran was right.
$11,800 of new money in January pushed Kravitz near $71,000, a little more than $5,000 of it has been spent.
Of that $11,800, all but $500 comes from Jacksonville, largely bundled in $500 and max donations from a few addresses.
Despite the surge, Fischer still holds serve, $2,090 raised brings his total up to $128,330, with $9,000 spent. Add that $117,000 and change to the roughly $61,000 that Fischer’s PAC has and it still adds up to an almost 3 to 1 money edge for Fischer.
Surprisingly given the other competitive multiparty primaries in this part of the state, a third candidate didn’t get into this one. It will be interesting to see which candidate starts spending his war chest first. One potential strategy might be to use the PAC to go in on Kravitz, whose decades in public service provide a goldmine of opposition research.
