Updated at 5:20 p.m. – Kathleen Matthews announced Wednesday she's raised more than $500,000 and Del. Kumar Barve announced he’s raised $291,000 for their campaigns to replace Rep. Chris Van Hollen in the 8th Congressional District.
The announcements came before Wednesday’s Federal Election Commission filing deadline for second-quarter campaign finance reports, which will include all the campaign contributions candidates collected in April, May and June.
Will Jawando, another congressional candidate who narrowly missed out on a District 20 House of Delegates seat last year, announced he raised a little more than $112,000 in the second quarter.
In a report filed with the FEC late Wednesday, another candidate for the Democratic nomination, Del. Ana Sol Gutierrez of Chevy Chase, reported raising just over $36,000 in the three-month period from outside contributors. But Gutierrez also loaned her campaign a total of $50,000 in May and June, leaving her with a little over $80,000 in her campaign treasury as of June 30.
Matthews, the former Marriott International executive and local TV news anchor, officially announced for the race on June 3 and quickly raised $501,105 over the rest of June, according to her campaign. She'll report having $482,060 on hand.
Barve’s campaign said the $291,000 in fundraising includes the $66,200 he raised over three weeks in March, between when he announced his campaign and the FEC’s first-quarter filing deadline.
That would mean Barve raised about $225,000 in the second quarter, less than half that of state Sen. Jamie Raskin.
Raskin, who like Barve and Matthews is believed to be a legitimate contender to win the Democratic nomination for Van Hollen’s seat, announced last week that he raised $553,000 in the second quarter.
The announcement from Barve’s campaign noted that he “was the first announced candidate in the race and the only one who took on the challenge of a FEC filing in March.”
Barve will report having more than $229,000 on hand in the second-quarter report.
Barve’s campaign said he received contributions from more than 500 individual donors and that 65 percent of the donors are within the state of Maryland.
The race to replace Van Hollen, who is leaving the seat to run for U.S. Senate, is expected to be costly, with insiders suggesting the winning candidate must raise at least $1 million, and perhaps as much as $3 million.
Matthews, of Chevy Chase, has reportedly tapped in to a network of high-profile Washington power players to raise money since she announced for the race.
Well-known lobbyist Heather Podesta is championing the campaign of Matthews, who’s married to MSNBC political pundit Chris Matthews.
Jawando, a former Obama administration official and Capitol Hill staffer, formally announced his candidacy in late May.
Former County Council member Valerie Ervin and former District 18 state delegate candidate Elizabeth Matory have also announced for the race.
Ervin, who made her campaign official after the last day of the FEC’s second quarter, won’t have to file a fundraising report by Tuesday.
Matory has yet to establish a formal campaign committee.
With reporting from Lou Peck
