Mayor Adams obtained simply over $36,000 in donations for his reelection marketing campaign previously two months, the bottom single interval haul he has needed to date and the worst fundraising efficiency out of all of the candidates operating to unseat him this yr, a brand new submitting reveals.
The submitting, made public Tuesday, raises extra questions on Adams’ reelection possibilities, which has already been hobbled by his document low approval scores and ongoing federal corruption indictment in addition to the Marketing campaign Finance Board’s choice to disclaim him public matching funds resulting from issues about his prison case.
The $36,121 raised by Adams within the newest interval, spanning between Jan. 12 and March, got here from 38 particular person donors.
Adams’ marketing campaign additionally spent $145,326 in the latest interval, which means he ran a significant deficit and leaving him with $3 million in money available, lower than a number of of his challengers in June’s Democratic major whose accounts are padded by lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} in public matching funds they’ve obtained.
One of many Adams marketing campaign’s largest bills within the interval was a $20,000 “consult” cost to the agency of Brianna Suggs, considered one of Adams’ longest serving fundraising aides whose Brooklyn dwelling was raided by federal investigators in November 2023.
The raid at Suggs’ dwelling was the legislation enforcement motion that first hurtled the federal investigation into Adams’ Turkish authorities ties into the general public highlight, a probe he was indicted in a couple of yr later, turning into the primary sitting New York Metropolis mayor in fashionable historical past to face prison expenses. Suggs’ actual function on the marketing campaign stays unclear, as Adams advised reporters shortly after the raid that she would not spearhead his fundraising operation.
Vito Pitta, Adams’ compliance lawyer who’s considered one of his solely different paid marketing campaign staffers, didn’t return a request for remark Tuesday on the most recent submitting.
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Photographs)
Against this, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has for months polled as the favourite to win June’s Democratic mayoral major, raised greater than $1.5 million from greater than 2,700 donors within the two weeks after he introduced his marketing campaign on March 1. Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who’s courting important assist from youthful, left-leaning voters within the metropolis, raised greater than $840,000 in the latest reporting stretch from some 13,000 particular person donors.
Adams’ newest submitting was due Monday, when the fundraising disclosures for all of his challengers had been launched by the Marketing campaign Finance Board. Nonetheless, Adams’ crew submitted its disclosure so late that the Marketing campaign Finance Board wasn’t capable of make it public till Tuesday.
On Monday, Adams pointedly didn’t rule out operating as an unbiased candidate in November’s common election ought to he fall brief on this summer time’s Dem major.
Nonetheless, Adams’ newest submitting does present he has taken some steps to marketing campaign for the June 24 Democratic major poll.
Based on the submitting, his marketing campaign paid My Brnd, a Westchester County-based consulting agency, $67,000 for petitioning companies in the latest stretch. Petitioning is the labor-intensive means of gathering 1000’s of signatures from registered New York Metropolis voters required to get your title onto the first poll.
