Booker, Murphy to raise money for Florida governor candidate Gillum

The man who wants to be governor of Sunshine State is seeking to withdraw money from the State of the Gardens.

Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, a Liberal who won the Democratic Party nomination last month, will be the special guest at a fundraiser in Edison, New Jersey, with a host committee comprising Senator Cory Booker (DN.J.), Governor Phil Murphy and US representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman and Donald Milford Payne, both Democrats from New Jersey.

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The fundraiser instead of Pines Manor party benefits the political committee of Gillum, the Florida striker. Tickets range from $ 250 to $ 5000, depending on l & # 39; invitation.

The New Jersey event marks the first major event for Gillum organized by a senator or governor and announces the national interest for the governorship race in Florida, a radical choice between Liberal Gillum and the Conservative Ron DeSantis. recently resigned from his seat in the House.

Gillum, who was leading all polls before Aug. 28, was immediately considered a national figure with his surprise victory and his historic candidacy as the first African American candidate of the Democratic Party of Florida. The next day, the national interest and race dynamics of the competition intensified when DeSantis used the term "monkey that up" about what he thought was the effect of Gillum's liberal policy on the finances of the game. Florida. DeSantis denied that the remark was supposed to be racial.

Booker's firepower is crucial for Gillum, who had been an underfunded candidate until his first win. Since primary school, Gillum's political and campaign committee has raised more than $ 5.4 million. The DeSantis campaign and its political committee, the Friends of Ron DeSantis, raised more than $ 4.3 million. Large sums of money are the hallmark of the Florida campaigns, so important that they require significant advertising spending in the top 10 media markets. At the peak of the campaign season, campaigns could spend up to $ 3 million a week on saturated advertising campaigns.

Florida law allows candidates to collect and spend unlimited amounts through their political committees.

Booker is the first African-American senator from New Jersey and could benefit from training powerful friends in major states like Florida. Booker acknowledged that he thought he would run for president in 2020 in a profile of New York Magazine.

Visibly absent from the list of hosts: Bob Menendez, the other Democratic senator from New Jersey who survived a corruption lawsuit related to his friendship with a Florida ophthalmologist.