Melissa Nelson raises $356K in June for state attorney race

The 4th Circuit State Attorney race has been blown wide open, with challenger Melissa Nelson holding a massive advantage in resources over incumbent Angela Corey.

Money totaling $356,000 — more than $72,000 hard money, and more than $283,000 to her political committee, “First Coast Values” — will be reflected on the June report, FloridaPolitics.com has learned.

Among those maxing out in hard money: Jodi and John Coxwell, Mark Frisch, Preston Haskell, Ben Davis and Roseann Duran of Web.com. Isaiah Rumlin also contributed.

Nelson has almost $270,000 in hard money on hand in her campaign account.

The PC had a huge haul also.

The $283,000 of new money brought the total raised up to $391,800, with $128,000 of it on hand.

In other words, Nelson has almost $400,000 to message over the next two months.

Big donors this month: Wayne Weaver, Gary Chartrand, and John Baker.

All of them went $50,000 deep.

Nelson has over double the resources of Corey, who has just under $190,000 on hand as of her June filing.

With a strong lead in the polls, the challenger is the frontrunner.