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Suraj Patel, an NYU professor whos mounting a 2020 primary bid against longtime Manhattan Rep. Carolyn Maloney, raised more than $100,000 in the first 12 days of his campaign, a significantly larger haul than last time he ran for the same seat, records show.
Patel, who unsuccessfully challenged Maloney in 2018, pulled in $103,198 between his rematch campaign launch on Sept. 18 and the most recent reporting deadline on Sept. 30, according to donation records obtained by the Daily News before their public release at midnight Monday.
The 35-year-old professor and progressive activist, whos also the president of an Indiana-based hospitality company, has disavowed corporate donations and regularly rails against Maloney for relying on them. He raised $34,248 in the first month of his 2018 campaign, records show, suggesting his second crack at representing New Yorks 12th district is gaining more traction than his first.
We are so gratified by the support Suraj has received thus far, said Tania Arriyales, Patels finance director. "Unlike our opponent who took in nearly 50% of her contributions directly from corporations this year, we will be funding this movement through individuals and grassroots donations.
Roughly 71% of Patels 2020 fundraising haul so far came from donors who gave less than $200, with a total of 152 individual contributors, according to records.
Maloneys 2020 campaign, by contrast, has raised $712,722 so far this election cycle, with $322,300, or 45.22%, coming from corporate PACs, including financial giants NASDAQ and Blackrock Funds Services Group, records show. About 53% of Maloneys 2020 cash comes from individual donations above $200, while only 1.73% comes from contributions smaller than $200.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/progressive-manhattan-candidate-challenging-rep-carolyn-maloney-raises-more-than-dollar100k-in-less-than-two-weeks/ar-AAILV1a
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)"Hospitality" makes it sound less lucrative. (It's privately held and apparently very successful.) He went to law school at NYU and then stayed here, eventually deciding that he wanted a seat in congress. So he went after hers.
In the few campaign flyers that were slipped under my door, he espoused no actual policy differences with Maloney. My assumption is that he was hoping to surprise her in the primary, where she had not faced recent competition. Her campaign took the challenge seriously and turned on a GOTV effort that foiled it.
Sogo
(4,986 posts)but I just want to say that I for one am a Democrat who does not get all tingly about the surge of "progressives."
Just consider where we would (or would not be) if the "progressives" had gotten their way, and we did not currently have Nancy Pelosi as Speaker....
Just sayin'....
it was mostly the conservative Dems in Congress who opposed Pelosi.