Maria Quiñones Sánchez's exit leaves 10 candidates in the May 16 Democratic primary, including six who are considered serious contenders.
Former City Councilmember Maria Quiñones Sánchez is suspending her mayoral campaign, saying the flood of money into the race from self-funding candidates and outside spending groups made it impossible for her to keep up.
With her base in the poorest Council district and with no major unions in her corner, Quiñones Sánchez knew that fundraising was going to be a major challenge, and she got in the race relatively early to give herself more time to build a campaign war chest. Quiñones Sánchez supports public financing of elections to level the playing field between candidates with major financial backing and those without it. Short of that reform, which would be a significant overhaul of the city election system, she said she supports revising Philadelphia’s campaign contribution limits. In the mayor’s race, the limits cap donations to campaigns at $6,200 a year for individuals and $25,200 a year for political action committees.
“The contribution limits make it harder for candidates like me,” Quiñones Sánchez said. “Nobody can do it without a super PAC anymore, which was not the intent of campaign [contribution limits].”She plans to endorse one of her rivals, but first she wants to hear where they stand on a new platform she is to release Sunday called Agenda Latina.
She won four elections to Council while being continually opposed by Democratic ward leaders in her district, a notable accomplishment in a city long dominated by machine politics. In 2021, Quiñones Sánchez was diagnosed with breast cancer, and shared her diagnosis publicly to encourage others to get regular screenings. She has been cancer-free since a successful surgery that year.
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