Campaign filings show fierce fundraising battles in 3 key Queens Council Districts
As New York City’s election season intensifies, candidates vying for City Council seats across Queens are engaged in fierce fundraising battles, with some contenders significantly outpacing their rivals.
The latest figures from the New York City Campaign Finance Board (CFB) reveal high-stakes competition in multiple districts, particularly in the races to replace term-limited Council Members Robert Holden (District 30) and Adrienne Adams (District 28), as well as in the contest for Council District 25.
In District 30, candidates are racing to secure funding ahead of the June primary, with Democratic candidate Dermot Smyth leading the pack in private donations. Meanwhile, challengers in other Queens districts are also seeing tight financial contests, with candidates leveraging the city’s Matching Funds Program to bolster their campaigns.
Smyth, a United Federation of Teachers political strategist, has raised the most money in the district so far from private sources, $77,292, in addition to $125,605 in public funds from the city’s Matching Funds Program, for a total of over $200,000 in the hotly contested race.
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