A.G. Gancarski
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.
