The closing numbers for marketing campaign money filed forward of the first factors to 1 candidate standing out above all others.
Shannon Liss-Riordan donated and spent over $9.3 million of her personal cash in her bid to switch outgoing Attorney General Maura Healey, in response to the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance.
Liss-Riordan’s marketing campaign far outstrips the race for governor or some other statewide race relating to spending, and it tops her opponent’s spending by thousands and thousands.
Her major opponent, former Boston City Councilor Andrea Campbell, has spent $1.68 million. Cape Cod Republican Jay McMahon has spent underneath $48,000. Final outcomes of the race weren’t obtainable at deadline.
Liss-Riordan has instructed reporters that her self-funding places her above particular pursuits, one thing her marketing campaign supervisor advised Campbell hadn’t managed to keep away from.
“Since entering the campaign Andrea Campbell has laid out the red carpet to outside money,” marketing campaign supervisor Jordan Meehan stated Thursday. “She has repeatedly refused to disavow special interest money, and now the mega-donors who are hell-bent on expanding charter schools in Massachusetts have arrived to prop up Campbell’s flagging campaign.”
Republican Chris Doughty additionally self-funded his marketing campaign and, after donating $2.3 million of his personal money, he’s spent over $1.2 million on his bid for Gov. Charlie Baker’s job. His opponent, former state Rep. Geoff Diehl, spent underneath $800,000 since his marketing campaign started final summer season, in response to OCPF.
Healey’s Democratic gubernatorial marketing campaign reported spending $2.7 million on her race for the nook workplace, in response to filings, however goes into the race with an over $7 million battle chest.
Longtime Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin was outraised however not outspent by his opponent within the major, NAACP Boston President Tanisha Sullivan. Galvin spent virtually $1 million to maintain his job, most it from his marketing campaign chest, whereas Sullivan spent about half that to take his seat.
Republican Rayla Campbell has spent lower than $50,000 on her unopposed run for secretary of state.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”