- 2022 elections
- campaign finance
- canvassing
- Charlie Crist
- Conservatives for Principled Leadership
- Democratic Primary Election
- Digital ads
- Florida
- Florida Consumers First
- Friends of Charlie Crist
- Friends of Ron DeSantis
- fundraising
- governor
- gubernatorial election
- matching funds
- Nikki Fried
- Ron DeSantis
- SEIU
- State money
- TV
![Crist Fried DeSantis](https://floridapolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Crist-Fried-DeSantis-1280x495.jpg)
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Charlie Crist’s campaign received its first injection of state matching funds, a $964,646 check that arrived in time for the latest campaign finance report.
With that lump sum, another $108,826 his campaign raised from private donors during the seven-day period of July 16-22, and $107,560 raised by his independent political committee, Crist’s campaign appeared to have a very good week. On paper at least, Crist’s efforts looked, for a change, to not be dwarfed by that of the re-election campaign for Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
DeSantis also has applied for matching funds, as has Crist’s Democratic Primary Election opponent, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried. Neither had deposited any state matching funds checks before the July 22 deadline for the latest report.
Heading toward the Aug. 23 Democratic Primary, Crist and Fried also began spending big money through their political committees, as did DeSantis, who doesn’t have a Primary Election to worry about.
Crist’s political committee, Friends of Charlie Crist, paid for $340,000 worth of TV time in the mid-July reporting period.
Fried’s political committee, Florida Consumers First, paid $200,000 for a run of digital ads during mid-July.
Meanwhile, DeSantis is mobilizing a massive, paid grassroots effort in advance of the November General Election. DeSantis’ campaign sent $2.2 million to Blitz Canvassing of Denver to pay for a canvassing campaign.
At this point, DeSantis’ campaign fund and his political committee, Friends of Ron DeSantis, combine for more than 10 times more campaign cash available than either of the Democrats wanting to challenge him in November.
Overall, including the state matching campaign funds, Crist raised about $1.2 million for his campaign and political committee combined during the week ending July 22. In the latest report, his campaign held about $2.9 million cash in hand, while Friends of Charlie Crist held about $4.3 million.
The week saw Friends of Charlie Crist deposit $22,000 in checks from the Service Employees International Union, $17,500 from Paula Abramson of Washington and $10,000 from the Yerrid Law Firm of Tampa. His official account took in 4,344 contributions, including $3,000 from the SEIU and 13 other checks of at least $1,000, mostly from Florida individuals.
Fried raised $52,000 combined for her campaign and political committee. At the end of the latest reports, her campaign held $1.4 million in the bank, while Florida Consumer First also held about $1.4 million.
Florida Consumers First picked up $10,000 from Josh Durbin of New York and 15 other checks. Fried’s official campaign collected 728 checks during the week, including nine for at least $1,000 from various individuals around Florida.
DeSantis’ campaign and political committee combined to raise about $1.7 million during the week. His campaign ended the reporting period with $5.6 million cash in hand, while Friends of Ron DeSantis had $122.5 million in the bank.
Friends of Ron DeSantis received $200,000 from Speaker-designate Paul Renner’s committee, Conservatives for Principled Leadership, $100,000 from Derek Carr of Boca Raton, $100,000 from Gregory P. Cook of Utah, $61,000 from Doug Quezada of California, $50,000 from Andrew John Mayer of Jacksonville and $50,000 from Howard Fineman of Jacksonville Beach
The PC collected 55 more checks of at least $10,000. DeSantis’ official campaign attracted 5,033 checks, including 51 for at least $1,000.
DeSantis’ official campaign also got another $68,000 in in-kind contributions of staff and consulting from the Republican Party of Florida during the week.
10 comments
Joe Corsin
August 1, 2022 at 12:10 pm
Vote RED for con men
Vote RED for low wage slave keepers
Vote RED for liars
Vote RED for fake religious people
Vote RED for abominable hogs
Impeach Biden
August 1, 2022 at 12:23 pm
Vote BLUE if you believe Rebekah Jones is a scientist.
Vote BLUE if want a state income tax
Vote BLUE if you support the squad
Joe Corsin
August 1, 2022 at 12:25 pm
Vote RED for far right criminals like Trump
Vote RED for shoveling money to the rich
Vote RED for redneck terrorists
Vote RED for religious law and religious police state
Impeach Biden
August 1, 2022 at 12:52 pm
Vote BLUE if you need a biologist to determine your sex.
Vote BLUE if you think Guam might tip over due to too many military personnel.
Vote BLUE if you want an Obama phone
Vote BLUE if you like feeding, educating, providing medical, and transporting over 2 million illegals since Jimmy Carter2 became President.
Vote BLUE if you want to defund the police and eliminate cash bail.
Joe Corsin
August 1, 2022 at 1:19 pm
^ Vote RED for far right propagandists such as this psycho!!!
Impeach Biden
August 1, 2022 at 1:25 pm
^ Vote BLUE if you support dumb and dumber. I’m not only talking Jimmy Carter2 but Corsin and Offen as well. 😜
Joe Corsin
August 1, 2022 at 5:56 pm
^ Vote BLUE to get guys like this carted off involuntary psychiatric hospitalization for paranoid delusions… narcissistic delusions.
David in Shoreline
August 1, 2022 at 5:33 pm
America’s Governor still on top of the fundraising game. Can’t say I’m surprised. Ron DeSantis has been one of true standout Republicans of my entire life. I’ve only ever contributed to one other campaign (Ron Paul, $300) in my days, but I’m going to max out my contributions to DeSantis.
Elliott Offen
August 1, 2022 at 5:59 pm
You’re a GD fool if you give your money to the hogs. Just look what Trump did. Fleeced his stupid supporters for a mountain of money over phoney stolen election claims..and knew he wasn’t coming back! Grifted people to a husk 😆
Daniel
August 3, 2022 at 1:17 pm
Almost 90% of DeSantis’ money is coming from outside the state. In fact he just flew off a few weeks ago to Liberal New York City to beg them for money. Florida is the last thing on this squeaky voiced wanna-be castro’s mind.
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