New campaign filings in the NY governor's race reveal big names donating to Gov. Kathy Hochul and her Republican challenger, Lee Zeldin.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.Billionaires, real estate developers and Hollywood royalty are pumping millions of dollars into the New York governor’s race as it enters the final stretch.
From mid-July to early October, Hochul took in the maximum allowable contribution of about $47,000 from at least 30 different people.Famed film director Steven Spielberg and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, both of whom gave the maximum amount.Jeffrey Bewkes, former CEO of Time Warner. Hochul has repeatedly said campaign contributions have never had any impact on her administration’s policies. Zeldin doesn’t buy it. He’s criticized of Hochul’s administration forZeldin trails Hochul in the polls and faces the difficult task of running as a Republican in deep-blue New York, where Democrats outnumber the GOP by more than two to one. Making things worse, he has significantly trailed Hochul’s massive fundraising haul over the past 14 months.
Both of those groups are allowed to raise unlimited funds from donors, but are prohibited by law from coordinating with Zeldin or his campaign. Zeldin is nonetheless aware of the efforts, and there are obvious synergies. “Save Our State,” for example, had been Zeldin’s campaign slogan long before the PAC launched. He’s toured New York in a bus with the phrase emblazoned on it in huge letters.
“Governor Kathy Hochul is in a very strong position, and Lee Zeldin is relying on dark money and outside groups to start to pull from the Trump playbook and try to take this election through this,” Jacobs told reporters Friday.Take Haim Chera, the Vornado executive. He contributed another $47,700 to Hochul’s campaign after previously contributing more than $20,000.
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