A.G. Gancarski
All three candidates for 4th cCrcuit State Attorney — Melissa Nelson, incumbent Angela Corey, and Wes White spent big in the last pre-primary reporting period.
Nelson was the biggest spender between Aug. 13 and Aug. 25 — $99,356 went out the door in that period, balanced against $24,405 raised.
All told in the campaign, Nelson brought in $432,762 in hard money and spent $424,833.
On the political committee side, Nelson’s “First Coast Values” committee raised $697,800 and spent $685,606 of that.
All told, that adds up to over $1.1 million spent on behalf of Nelson’s challenge to Corey.
Corey was no slouch either. Corey raised $401,590 during the campaign and spent $398,523, leaving her just over $3,000 on hand if she wins the primary and faces the fearsome challenge of her former campaign manager’s hand-picked write-in candidate Kenny Leigh.
Though hard money was comparable with Corey and the frontrunning challenger, Corey’s political committee lagged behind, raising a mere $165,350 and spending just over $154,000.
Wes White? No new fundraising — again — but he did put $19,000 more of his own money into this sinkhole of a campaign in the last reporting period before the primary.
White raised $34,460 and loaned his campaign $40,722, pushing the effort over $75,000 taken in. White spent $73,084 in total, including $1,400 in new money to political consultant Denise Hunt.
