Sandy Freedman to host Charlie Crist for Tampa fundraiser

Tampa’s first woman Mayor Sandy Freedman is set to host gubernatorial Democratic nominee Charlie Crist for a fundraising event in Tampa in late September.

Freedman, who served as Tampa’s Mayor from 1986-1995, will join Tucker/Hall chair Tom Hall and Ken Jewett at the event. The fundraiser is set for Sept. 22 starting at 6 p.m., with private pre-reception tickets ranging from $3,000 (co-host) to $10,000 (chair) and general reception tickets ranging from $500 to $1,500. Proceeds will go to Crist’s affiliated political committee, Friends of Charlie Crist.

The host committee is still being formed.

Crist has been doing well in the fundraising game, raising another $1 million for his campaign in the first 11 days of August. That’s on the heels of raising $2.3 million in July. But, he’ll need to keep up the momentum to compete with incumbent Gov. Ron DeSantis.

DeSantis, who faced no Primary challengers, holds more than $10 million in the bank for his candidate account and controls another nearly $120 million with a committee.

The Governor spent substantially leading into the August Primary despite not having his name on the ballot, plunking down more than $8 million in the month of August as he campaigned for endorsed School Board candidates. He slowed down expenses in the final week before the Primary, but only after sending a variety of mailers in counties around Florida.

Crist, on the other hand, spent big before the Aug. 23 Primary, in which he defeated fellow Democrat Nikki Fried by 25 points.

A Democratic Governors Association-commissioned poll by Impact Research showed DeSantis up by 5 percentage points. Liberal groups Progress Florida and Florida Watch published polling modeled on a Republican-leaning Midterm electorate and found DeSantis leading with 48% to Crist’s 45%. That closely matches findings for a generic ballot test showing 48% of voters feel inclined to vote Republican in the Midterms and 45% intend to vote Democratic. That puts the race within the poll’s 1.78% margin of error.

In the last week, Crist has made several headlines, first for announcing his running mate, United Teachers of Dade President Karla Hernández, and also for his resignation from Congress to focus on the Governor’s race.

Crist has represented Florida’s 13th Congressional District since winning the seat in the 2016 election. Crist was elected Governor as a Republican in 2006 but left the party and did not seek re-election in 2010, opting instead for a bid for the U.S. Senate.

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