In the final weeks of the race, the governor has spent from his hefty
campaign war chest at the rate of nearly $ 500,000 a week on television advertising, some featuring his daughters and partner Sandra Lee, but much of it negative against his Republican opponent Rob Astorino.
He said he plans to rely on grassroots fundraising to take on Collins, who had nearly $ 1 million in
his campaign war chest at the end of March and who had at least nine D.C. fundraisers in the year's second quarter.
Cuomo in the final weeks of the race, spent from his hefty
campaign war chest at the rate of nearly half a million dollars a week on television advertising, some featuring his daughters and partner Sandra Lee, but much of it negative against his Republican opponent Rob Astorino.
The governor has a $ 33 million
campaign war chest at his disposal, should any potential challengers gain traction in the coming months.
Not exact matches
The
campaign to take on Cuomo this year is considered in uphill one, given Democratic advantages
at the polls in a midterm election and the governor's $ 30 million
campaign war chest.
The New York Democratic Senate
Campaign Committee has had a historic year, filing its
war chest with $ 3.5 million in cash on hand
at the conclusion of the first six months of 2010, it announced July 16.
«Cuomo has built a $ 31 million
war chest with the donations of millionaires, billionaires and corporations,» Nixon told supporters
at her
campaign kickoff event in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on Tuesday.
Cuomo is looking to add even more gold to his $ 22 million
campaign war chest: he has several fundraisers planned next month, including a dinner
at the St. Regis where tickets cost $ 15,000 per person.
At the end of March, fellow Democrat Ro Khanna's
campaign had built a nearly $ 2 million
war chest.
New
campaign finance reports of incumbents and candidates for the most competitive and open - seat U.S. House races in 2014 show 39 candidates have
war chests of over $ 1 million
at the end of the first quarter of the year, including 11 who are not incumbents.
New
campaign finance reports of incumbents and candidates for the U.S. Senate in 2014 show eight incumbents have
war chests of over $ 5 million
at the end of the first quarter of the year.
Ex-city Comptroller John Liu has let his legal challenge of $ 525,000 in fines against his prior
campaign languish for
at least 18 months — as he sits on a new
campaign war chest of $ 444,000, his opponent charged Tuesday.
Mr. Astorino, for reasons that aren't clear, refused to participate in the radio debate, which
at the least would have attracted heavy newspaper coverage of the one opportunity the Governor was offering him to go one - on - one on equal footing rather than taking body blows from Mr. Cuomo's far superior
campaign war chest.
Other elected Republicans balked
at running for county executive against Bellone, who a year ago had been sitting on a $ 2 million
campaign war chest with a well - organized Suffolk County Democratic Committee and politically influential police unions firmly in his corner.
Cuomo, a second - term Democrat who is up for reelection, said
at last week's press conference that both
campaign committees, as well as his $ 30 million
war chest, would be used to try to elect enough Democrats to retake the majority in the Senate.
And in a year in which the status quo
at state Capitol is under assault from virtually every direction, Martland is calling on Breslin to return the insurance largesse, labeling it a fundamental conflict of interest that he accepts such a large portion of his
campaign war chest from an industry he's supposed to be regulating.
At the end of June, Maffei had $ 1.45 million in the bank — approximately $ 1.1 million more than Katko had in his
campaign war chest.
At the moment, Mr. Espada has a far larger
campaign war chest than Mr. Rivera.
For instance, Patrick Kennedy, who's retiring
at the end of this year, gave $ 200,000 from his
campaign war chest to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which helps Democrats in tight congressional races around the
campaign war chest to the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee, which helps Democrats in tight congressional races around the
Campaign Committee, which helps Democrats in tight congressional races around the country.
We'll get a closer look
at both Ritz's and Bennett's
campaign war chests in the coming weeks when their
campaigns» quarterly financial reports are released.