Top 10 Contested State Races Each Now Have $2M Plus War Chests
ICPR Executive Director Sarah Brune was quoted in this article
via Chicago Sun-Times
“In an unprecedented burst of political cash, there are now 10 state races with more than $2 million invested in each of them with just a month to go before the elections.
At the top of the list is the Illinois Comptroller’s race — incumbent Republican Leslie Munger versus Democratic Chicago City Clerk Susana Mendoza. As of Friday, the two combined campaigns had $7.4 million in their war chests, Munger largely ahead with $5.6 million.
Such big-money attention on the comptroller race is “certainly unprecedented,” said Sarah Brune, executive director for the non-partisan Illinois Campaign for Political Reform.
Last week, campaign finance records show Munger received a $260,000 loan from her husband, which passed the threshold to remove limits on the amounts both Munger and Mendoza can receive from individual donors. Then came $5 million from two donors: Packaging magnate and GOP mega donor Richard Uihlein gave $2 million on Sept. 27; two days later a $3 million donation was received by the state’s richest man, hedge fund manager Ken Griffin.”
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