FL-HD45: Carolina Amesty (R) holds cash edge on Leonard Spencer (D), but is support drying up after her arrest?
Donations to Rep. Carolina Amesty’s re-election effort have diminished since her arrest on forgery charges. But she still entered the last month of her re-election bid with more cash on hand than Democratic opponent Leonard Spencer.
Amesty as of Oct. 4 had raised more than $99,000, and still had $29,000 in her candidate account as the reporting period closed.
Of course, most of Amesty’s fundraising precedes her Aug. 29 arrest on four felony counts. Since that point, she has raised about $2,400 collectively from seven donors.
Meanwhile, the political committee Friends of Carolina Amesty has seen a net negative intake. While collecting a single $500 donation since the arrest, the political committee returned $13,000, including $12,500 to Orlando real estate developer Joseph Saunders.
But the committee had collected a healthy number of donations before that and closed the period with a little over $23,000 in the bank.
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