Hans Tanzler has $82K cash on hand for final days of CD 4 primary

Tanzler

The campaign of Hans Tanzler III in Florida’s 4th Congressional District has seen robust fundraising, heavy personal loans, and a lot of spending.

But he only has $82,314 on hand, well behind former Jacksonville sheriff John Rutherford, who has $136,000.

Tanzler has, throughout the whole campaign, raised $395,330, and has another $400,000 in personal loans.

The spending has been considerable: $713,515 in total hard money, in addition to another $204,000 from his “Conservative Outsider” Super PAC to target Rutherford.

The total of $917,515 is a lot of money to spend for under 15 percent in the polls in Northeast Florida, but that’s been the strategy: to increase Tanzler’s name identification and to boost Rutherford’s negatives, with contentions that the former sheriff is “liberal,” accommodating of illegal immigrants, overly tolerant of Muslims, and skittish on the Second Amendment.

In the “pre-primary” period between July 1 and Aug. 10 encompassed by his most recent filing, it appears the donor class has cooled on Tanzler.

He raised just $37,775, a number dwarfed by $200,000 in personal loans during the period (in four disbursements starting on July 29), and dwarfed further by $541,943 in expenditures.

Over a quarter-million dollars has been spent on television.

Front Line Strategies ran a textbook campaign on behalf of Tanzler. But their candidate never caught fire in polls. And it looks like he’s running out the clock with personal loans.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


One comment

  • JaxNole

    August 19, 2016 at 12:22 pm

    LOL, 100k of Rutherford’s cash on hand is designated for the general, If it wasn’t for Rutherford’s 50k loan, his campaign would be broke right now. So Rutherford has 36k available for the primary. Even Lake Ray has more cash available than Rutherford.

    Hard hitting stuff AG as always. I know research is hard and real journalism is even harder. It’s not your fault though, you want to be a real journalist but your boss forces you to write stuff like this..

    FYI, you still haven’t updated the headline for the I-95 crash, Bill McClure was the real hero that day.

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