Money is rolling into the primary race to fill Tucson’s open congressional seat.
Democrats in District 7 will decide between Adelita Grijalva, Daniel Hernandez, Deja Foxx, Jose Malvido and Patrick Harris, Sr. Republicans will choose between Daniel Butierez, Jimmy Rodriguez and Jorge Rivas.
Hernandez, the former state lawmaker, was at the top in raising campaign money. He brought in nearly $1 million since kicking off his campaign according to his pre-primary filing.
Of the almost $655,000 raised from April 1 through June 25, $82,500 came from PACs. Since forming his campaign, $118,500 of the over-$980,000 his campaign has raised came from PACs, according to Hernandez’s filing. Those include the Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) PAC, the National Association of Realtors PAC, the Southwest Gas Political PAC, the Moderate PAC and the Unisource (UNS) Energy Corporation PAC, among others.
Hernandez’s campaign closed with over $36,700 on-hand as of June 25, according to the filing.
Grijalva, the former Pima County Supervisor and daughter of late Rep. Raúl Grijalva, reported raising almost $835,000 — nearly $152,000 from PACs. She spent close to $707,000 through June 25. Her largest donors include the Moms Fed Up PAC and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Active Ballot Club, each contributing a total of $10,000 to the campaign, according to Grijalva’s filing.She ended the reporting period on June 25 with nearly just over $127,900 on-hand, according to the pre-primary filing.
Influencer and political newcomer Foxx, like Grijalva, reported raising all of her over $600,000 within the April 1 through June 25 reporting period. Of that, $7,545.35 came from PACs, according to the filing: $5,000 from Washington, D.C.-based Aspire PAC, $2,500 from The Juno Fund and $45.35 from Change 4 Nogales. The campaign, spent just over $500,000 and closed out the reporting period with just over $100,000 on-hand, according to Foxx’s filing.
Butierez, the Republican who lost to Raúl Grijalva in November reported raising over $24,000 within the April 1 through June 25 reporting period.
Just over $12,300 of what was raised in within the period came from himself, according to Butierez’s filing. The campaign has raised nearly $43,000 since forming, according to the filing.
Butierez spent just over $57,000 within the reporting period, and in-total, over $82,500 since his campaign started.
Since it formed, Butierez has loaned his own campaign over $136,000, according to the filing.
He has not receive any funding from PACs or political groups as of June 25, according to the filing. Butierez closed the reporting period with nearly $99,500 on-hand.
Restaurant owner Jorge Rivas reporting raising over $2,200 and spending over $4,000 within the reporting period.
The campaign entered April with about $2,900 and, as of June 25, had over $1,050 on-hand, according to Rivas’ filing.
Malvido, Harris and Rodriguez have not filed campaign finance reports with the Federal Elections Commission as of Tuesday.
The primary is July 15.
The Recorder’s Office sent a total of 131,416 early ballots and have received back 39,399, or 30%, from voters as of Monday. Over 35,000 of the ballots have already been turned over to the Elections Department.
Voters can go to www.recorder.pima.gov/Voter_dashboard_login to check their registration or their ballot status through the Pima County Recorder’s Office’s new voter dashboard.
