Progress Energy pours $100k into McCollum’s account
by Michael C. Bender | July 14th, 2010While attorneys for the top two Republican gubernatorial candidates debate the merits of campaign spending caps, the candidates themselves are still spending and collecting money at a feverish pace.
Rick Scott will air $2.2 million in television ads starting today and for the next week, a source told The Palm Beach Post. That total brings the amount of television spending for Scott’s campaign and his 527 political advocacy group, Let’s Get to Work, to an astonishing $23.2 million over the past three months.
Meanwhile, McCollum’s campaign was down to just $800,000 on Saturday. But McCollum’s 527 group, the Florida First Initiative reported two big new checks: $100,000 from Progress Energy and $50,000 from Florida Phosphate, a political advocacy group run by Mosaic Fertilizer lobbyist Mark Kaplan.
(On potentially related a side note, incoming Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, has sent $15,000 to the Committee for Responsible Representation, a political committee controlled by Stafford Jones. Jones, who is running the Florida First group, did not return a call for comment.)
Tags: 527s, Bill McCollum, campaign finance, Rick Scott
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July 14th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
I don’t like either one of these gentlemen, and I am getting tired of their TV adds blasting each other. I would rather hear about a candiadate’s view on the important issues of the day rather than rants against his opponent.
July 14th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Progress Energy recently asked the PSC for a rate increase. Could this be why?
July 14th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
This is peanuts! Can’t these corrupt suckers who have got so much from McCollum come up with some more side money? He needs to call in Penny Pritzker and Mori Hosseini and get some real money. After all he helped them steal enought from the taxpayers on the Orlando Naval base and the Stanaki Land deal in Volusia county. The corrupt need to step up and finance their corrupt politician who has stood up for them for 30 years.