Politics on the Hudson

Kathleen Rice, one of five Democrats running for attorney general, has $2.8 million on hand, according to a campaign-finance disclosure report filed with the state Board of Elections this afternoon. The campaign spent $1.89 million during the last few weeks and took in $279,939. Rice is the Nassau County district attorney.

Rice’s opponents in the Sept. 14 primary are Sen. Eric Schneiderman, D-Manhattan; Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, D-Greenburgh; Eric Dinallo of Manhattan, former state insurance superintendent; and Sean Coffey of Bronxville, a former federal prosecutor. None of them have filed their 11-day pre-primary reports with the state yet.

Among Rice’s major expenditures are $1.4 million to Murphy Putnam Media of Alexandria, Virginia for television ads and $197,641 to Mission Control Inc. in Mansfield, Connecticut for campaign literature.

Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan is the only Republican running for the seat.

Update:
—Brodsky’s filing is just in. He began the reporting period with $1.5 million and took in $99,249. After spending $1.28 million, he is left with a balance of $335,744. He spent a total of $815,840 on campaign mailings and $425,000 on television ads. He received two $10,000 contributions—one from the Public Employees Federation political action committee and one from the New York State Conference of the International Union of Operating Engineers.
—Schneiderman’s report isn’t on the Board of Elections site yet, but he issued a news release with estimates and said the final numbers will be tallied and filed this evening. He has raised the most of any candidate running for attorney general, bringing in about $380,000 between Aug. 13 and Aug. 31 and nearly $3.4 million overall. He loaned his campaign $250,000 and has $1.3 million on hand to spend on the primary.

The release said 58 percent of individual contributions were $500 or less, and more than 38 percent of the individual contributions were from women.
—Dinallo spent just $52,642 during the filing period. He started out with $1.63 million on hand and now has $1.64 million, according to his disclosure report. His largest expenses were for consulting fees, including $11,042 to AKPD Message and Media LLC of Chicago and $8,000 for M.P. Marketing and Consulting of Brooklyn.

– Coffey has $1.57 million on hand, his report said. He raised $1.04 million during the reporting period and spent $2.6 million. Coffey has loaned his campaign $3 million between May 10 and Aug. 9. Coffey spent $2.09 million on TV advertising in the past few weeks, $10,000 on radio and $425,507 on literature |  Email This