New York Governor Hochul’s Donors Include Financiers, Republicans and Seinfeld
- A $21.6 million haul looms over N.Y. governor’s challengers
- Some open-handed givers have business before the state
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The accounting of Governor Kathy Hochul’s record-breaking $21.6 million campaign haul reads like an alphabet soup of New York’s most prominent real-estate developers, union political action committees, trade associations and hedge fund managers.
Hochul, who took office in August after former Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned amid sexual-harassment allegations, has long been a prodigious fundraiser. She originally planned to collect at least $10 million by the end of 2021 and roughly $25 million by summer of 2022 to intimidate challengers as she tries to become the first woman to win the office outright. Her ahead-of-schedule take dwarfed the otherwise respectable fundraising of some likely Democratic primary and general election competitors.