Jason Fischer holds money lead, moves committee cash in re-election bid

Jason Fischer filed a bill to elect, eventually, Duval's school superintendent.

State Rep. Jason Fischer, first-term Republican representing Jacksonville’s District 16, continued to maintain his cash-on-hand lead over Democrat Ken Organes as September closed.

As of Sept. 28, Fischer had nearly $117,000 in his campaign account, and another $9,000 in the account of his political committee, Conservative Solutions for Jacksonville.

Fischer’s political committee has spent $85,000 in the last month, but the money didn’t go far: it was moved to another political committee, Citizens for a Conservative Future.

The committees have a number of commonalities. Among them: opaque nomenclature and the same treasurer (Eric Robinson).

It will be interesting to see how that $85,000 is deployed in the coming weeks. Will “Citizens for a Conservative Future” be filling up HD 16 mailboxes, or will the money be moved to other races? Time will tell.

Fischer downshifted fundraising efforts between Sept. 15 and 28, bringing in $2,000 off two checks. However, his six-figure nest egg dwarfs the cash-on-hand of Democrat Organes, a first-time candidate and retiree from railroad concern CSX.

Organes, who raised just $825 between Sept. 15 and 28, has roughly $27,000 on hand.

HD 16 has a strong GOP plurality: of its 120,186 registered voters, over 55,000 are Republican.