A.G. Gancarski
The Donald Trump-endorsed Republican incumbent from Florida’s 5th Congressional District has more than half a million dollars to spend ahead of the Aug. 20 Primary.
Rep. John Rutherford of Jacksonville reports $527,393 on hand as of the end of June, with $108,417 raised during the second quarter of 2024 and $85,138 spent.
Donors to the former sheriff and four-term Congressman include the Muskogee Creek Nation, Altria, CSX’s “Good Government Fund,” the Florida Municipal Electric Association, the National Association of Convenience Stores, the PepsiCo “Concerned Citizens Fund,” various sugar PACs, and Walmart’s PAC for responsible government.
Rutherford is headed for a rematch with Mara Macie, one of two Primary challengers to Rutherford in 2022. She was unsuccessful, getting 18% of the vote and finishing in a distant second place, with Rutherford taking 66% in that election.
Macie’s Q2 numbers aren’t in, but she is running a grassroots campaign and has nearly $20,000 on hand. The St. Johns County Republican Executive Committee has also endorsed her.
The Primary winner will face a Democrat and a write-in in November.
Democrat Jay McGovern had no Primary opposition and will advance to November.
McGovern has yet to record fundraising; he has run for office before, albeit without electoral success.
In 2016, he lost the Democratic Primary in the old Florida’s 6th Congressional District, where he would have challenged Ron DeSantis if he had won that August. In 2020, he lost a Primary race for state House to a candidate who lost to state Rep. Wyman Duggan.
Repeat candidate Gary Koniz is also running, this time as a write-in.
The district, which includes some of Duval and St. Johns Counties, is designed for a Republican win, with more than 250,000 GOP registrants and fewer than 145,000 Democrats.
5 comments
MH/Duuuval
July 12, 2024 at 5:27 pm
Our neighbors south of the border and in the Caribbean are complaining about the effects stemming from the flood of illegal firearms being trafficked from El Norte. I have emailed the MC twice about this subject and received no response other than some general canned verbiage.
You’d think a former sheriff would be concerned about international gun trafficking because it is one of the forces behind the flood of asylum seekers, but I guess he is too busy placating the 2A extremists and MAGAs.
MH/Duuuval
July 13, 2024 at 11:49 pm
Will Rutherford be retired to turn over that 1/2milion bucks to Trump since John won’t need it?
MH/Duuuval
July 13, 2024 at 11:50 pm
required, not retired
This site needs a 21st century spell check.
MH/Duuuval
July 14, 2024 at 11:10 am
Across the nation, it’s common practice for police departments to trade in their old weapons rather than destroy them. Tens of thousands of old cop guns are ending up in the hands of criminals. (“Reveal”)
Another aspect of gun proliferation ignored by the former elected Duval County sheriff.
Mark Weisberger
July 23, 2024 at 2:30 pm
http://ratings.conservative.org/people/R000609
John Rutherford has a lifetime ACU rating of 73 (tied with Liz Cheney). This means that John votes with Democrats a lot of the time. Mara Macie is a true Conservative that won’t vote with the Democrats.
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