Slow fundraising for Travis Cummings, Jay Fant in May

State Rep. Travis Cummings, who represents northern Clay County, and Jay Fant, who represents much of Jacksonville’s Westside, have some things in common.

Both are Republican incumbents. Neither faces a primary challenge. Both raised little money in May. And both got $500 checks from the “Duke Energy Corporation Florida” PAC.

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Cummings raised just $1,800, with $1,500 of that coming from PACs.

The “Better Florida Education” PAC of Rep. Manny Diaz maxed out for Cummings. The “Duke Energy Corporation Florida” PAC donated $500.

Despite the slow and low May fundraising, Cummings has plenty in the bank. He’s raised north of $190,000 in total, and has over $130,000 cash on hand … plenty of money, in other words, for his general election campaign against Libertarian Ken Willey, who raised $515 through April and has spent $564.

Willey is still in the black though, thanks to a $500 personal loan.

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Fant, meanwhile, will face no challenger in November … Libertarian or otherwise.

The Avondale Republican raised $1,000 in May — the aforementioned $500 from Duke Energy’s PAC, and another $500 from Anheuser-Busch.

Fant, who comes from generational wealth, has raised $70,700 in total, and retains $61,000 cash on hand.