Clay Yarborough clears $50K COH in HD 12 re-election bid
Clay Yarborough leads the money race in HD 12

Clay Yarborough

Jacksonville Republican state Rep. Clay Yarborough continued his consistent fundraising in his HD 12 re-election bid in September.

The $7,500 he brought in last month was right in line with July and August contributions of $7,500 and $7,250 respectively, and pushed Yarborough up to $63,675 raised — with almost $53,000 of that on hand.

Of Yarborough’s haul, $6,500 of that was from corporate/institutional donors, including AT&T, Charter, and PhRMA — the trade association of the pharmaceutical industry.

Yarborough, a former Jacksonville City Councilman, was first elected to this Southside Jacksonville seat in 2016 after a contentious primary that saw a lot of outside money brought in.

While Yarborough faces no primary competition, and won’t — given the Jacksonville donor class made its peace with him shortly after he got the nomination last August — he does face a likely general election opponent in Democrat Tim Yost.

Yost reported no fundraising for September, and has just over $1,700 on hand.

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



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