Assistant Attorney General Molly Gray continues to outpace her Democratic competitors in fundraising for the highly contested primary for lieutenant governor.
Since March, Gray raised $89,000 from 432 donors, according to campaign finance disclosures released late Wednesday. Since Gray announced her campaign in January, she has brought in a total of $191,000.
Sen. President Pro Tem Tim Ashe, D/P-Chittenden, who is also competing in the four-way Democratic primary, has brought in $50,000 in the second quarter, from 213 contributors. In all, his campaign has raised roughly $80,000, including $5,000 of his own money.
In the past four months, Brenda Siegel, a progressive activist who ran for governor in 2018, brought in $33,000 from 149 contributors since March, and has raised $46,000 in all. Immediate family members and self-funding comprise $7,500 of the total.
Sen. Debbie Ingram, D-Chittenden, has received $24,000 since March from 85 donors, and $47,000 total since January. Ingram has spent about $31,000 of her own money on the campaign so far.
Notably, Gray has received support from Vermont’s Democratic establishment.
Former Vermont governor Peter Shumlin, who endorsed Gray last week, donated the maximum amount, $4,000, to her campaign. Jane Stetson and her husband, William, major Democratic donors in Vermont, each gave her $2,000. Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Lisman, and former Republican U.S. Congressman Peter Smith also contributed to Gray.
In the first two months of her campaign, Gray brought in $100,000—the majority of her campaign donations so far.
Ashe’s donations included contributions from Sens. Dick Mazza D-Grand Isle and Andy Perchlik, D-Washington, and prominent Vermont entrepreneur Alan Newman.
On the Republican side, candidate Meg Hansen, who launched her bid for the lieutenant governor’s office in march, has outraised the other GOP candidates, with a total of $26,000.
But she has only brought in $4,000 since March. Since she announced, Hansen has put $13,000 of her own money into the campaign.
Scott Milne, who nearly unseated former Democratic Governor Peter Shumlin in 2014, has raised $5,297—$5,022 of which comes from his own funds—since he announced his candidacy in May.
Dana Colson, another Republican in the race, has raised $1,200, while the two other GOP candidates, Jim Hogue and Dwayne Tucker, had not filed their campaign finance reports as of Thursday.
