A.G. Gancarski
Lake Ray, a Republican running in Florida’s 4th Congressional District, has over $142,000 on hand as of June 30, according to his Federal Election Commission filing.
Of that total, $100,000 comes from a personal loan to his campaign.
Beyond the loan, Ray has raised $68,750 and spent $26,321.
Among the bigger names on his contributor list: contractor John Coxwell, who maxed out, and former Jacksonville City Councilman Kevin Hyde, who gave $500.
Ray, a termed-out representative in House District 12 and executive director of the First Coast Manufacturers’ Association, also brought in $6,000 in PAC money, most of it from the American Council of Engineering Companies PAC and the United Transportation Union PAC.
Of Ray’s $26,321 spend, $1,126 was on travel, and $492 on food. The campaign’s preference seems to be for fast-food franchises, with Krystal, McDonald’s, and Wendy’s featured in the expenditure column.
The big winner was Mammoth Consulting; the Austin, Texas-based company has collected $15,338 thus far from the Ray campaign.
Ray is reasonably well known in Duval County, and the most recent poll of the race shows him in a dead heat for second place in Duval, with 14 percent support.
Outside of Duval, Ray struggles. He garnered 7 percent of surveyed support in Nassau County, and just 1 percent in St. Johns, where he trails even St. Johns County Commissioner Bill McClure and perennial candidate Deborah Katz Pueschel.
