MORGANTOWN – In the race to succeed Joe Manchin in the U.S. Senate, Democrat Glenn Elliott raised nearly as much as Republican Gov. Jim Justice; but Justice had a bigger pool of money to start with and remains well ahead for total campaign funds.
Justice has two campaign committees: Jim Justice for U.S. Senate, and Justice for WV Senate Republican Nominee Fund.
The first one has the bulk of the funds. For the April-June quarter, it took in a total $190,779.30 in contributions from individuals and PACs, and received $397,687.55 in transfers from other committees.
Operating expenditures were $560,205.73.
The second committee took in $2,824.97 in contributions and received $133,108.62 in transfers. It had $7,232.71 in operating expenditures and transferred $278,670.02 to Justice’s first committee.’
Consolidating the two accounts for the entire election season, Justice had total receipts of $3,680,407.90 and incoming transfers of $800,452.40.
Operating expenditures were $2,881,158.09. He ended the quarter with $799,423.18 cash on hand to go into the July-September quarter.
West Virginia was his top state for contributions, at $886,340.48.
Following that, the top five others were: Ohio, $166,527.57; Texas, $154,305; New York, $124,585; Minnesota, $120,900; Virginia $101,657.50.
Elliott completed his second term as Wheeling mayor in June.
His total contributions for the quarter were $126,854.42 (just shy of $67,000 less than Justice). His operating expenditures were $121,755.46. That left him $69,134.56 cash on hand going into the third quarter; Justice had 12 times more.
His year-to-date receipts were $252,261.96 and operating expenditures were $181,827.40.
West Virginia was also his top state for contributions, at $106,129.16. Following that were Virginia, $23,122; California, $19,324.42; New York $14,150.49; Maine, $13,530; Ohio $8,403.27.
Other candidates
Justice won a seven-way GOP primary, taking more votes – 61.84% – than all his opponents combined. His chief competitor was Rep. Alex Mooney, who was aiming to move from the House to the Senate.
Mooney’s election season totals were receipts of $2,277,380.53 and incoming transfers of $300,047.81. Operating expenditures of $3,017,715.52 left him with $14,059.49 cash on hand.
His top six contributor states were: Florida, $331,149.47; West Virginia, $172,798; Virginia, $170,214.12; Texas, $154,382.76; California, $153,315.39; Maryland $136,010.60.
Elliott won a three-way primary with a plurality of the votes: 45.4%.
Zach Shrewsbury, a Marine Corps veteran and Princeton resident, took second place with 36.14% of the votes.
He doesn’t have a report posted for the April-June quarter. His prior report shows he had total receipts of $295,678.68 and operating expenditures of $238,895.94. He finished with $56,782.74 cash on hand.
His top six states: West Virginia, $13,311.51; Florida $10,936; Massachusetts $8,027.98; New York, $4,683.99; Washington $4,577; Texas $4,150.
Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship – who did prison time for a misdemeanor charge of conspiring to violate federal mine safety laws following the 2009 Upper Big Branch mine explosion – took third, at 18.46%.
His report – his April Quarterly, he doesn’t have a July report for the April-June quarter posted – is filled out by hand and is a little hard to navigate because there is no prior report to account for some of the numbers.
It shows a single donation from himself to his campaign account of $1,000 and no operating expenditures for that quarter.
He reports a prior balance of $100 and an expenditure or $14.70. With no report it’s unknown if he gave his campaign the money or what he spent it on.
That put his totals at the end of March at $1,100 in contributions and expenditures of $14.70, leaving $1,083. His FEC summary page indicates he received only $1,000 and spent nothing.
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