After reporting month after month with no contributions for more than three years, a political action committee for Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle reported raising $182,000 in the last quarter of 2023. Add that to the $239,374 reported in her campaign account and Ms KFR has almost half a million in the bank already.
What she doesn’t have is a race. Nobody has challenged our state attorney. At least not yet. And it would be a hard bid. Fernandez Rundle has proven to be invincible at the polls.
After her appointment in 1993, when the late Janet Reno was made the first woman U.S. Attorney General, Fernandez Rundle made history of her own in 1994 by becoming the first Cuban-American state attorney elected in the State of Florida. She was then re-elected eight times. Eight! She has served for more than 20 years. That’s like a sentence!
Of the 254 contributions reported in her campaign account, $102,000 (almost half) is a loan from herself. The rest of the donations are from mostly attorneys and some real estate developers — perhaps because her consultant is Christian Ulvert, who also consults the county mayor and several county commissioners.
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The biggest contributors to the PAC — called Citizens for Justice PC — are also in the real estate business. Stuart Miller, executive chairman and co-CEO of Lennar Corporation, gave $100,000 and developer Michael Wohl, of Pinnacle and Coral Rock Development, gave $20,000 (cheapskate!). Auto moguls Alan Potamkin and Norman Braman gave $25,000 and $10,000, respectively. Spice king Joseph Badia also gave $10,000.
And, by the way, thanks to a stupid new state law that changed campaign reporting deadlines from monthly to quarterly, we won’t know how much she is raising now until some time in April. But Ladra wouldn’t be surprised if it surpasses a million, which would scare away any potential contestants.
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