He's not on the ballot, but Inslee is campaigning like it
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee’s name isn’t on the ballot in November.
But he is raising and spending more money than just about everyone who is vying for a state office.
Inslee hauled in $388,411 in contributions between early March, when lawmakers adjourned and the freeze on fundraising ended, and Aug. 31. He spent $305,887 in the same time frame, according to reports filed with the state Public Disclosure Commission.
“It’s a lot of work to manage his political operation,” said Jamal Raad, a campaign spokesman.
Records show that each month Inslee pays $7,500 to AK Consulting of Seattle, the firm of his campaign manager Aisling Kerins, and $7,500 to Trilogy, a digital media consulting firm in California that also manages his campaign website.
Another $7,500 goes to Newman Partners in Seattle for fundraising fees and $4,000 to JR Consulting Inc. of Seattle, which is Raad’s firm. There are varying sums expended on other staff, fundraising events, travel and advertising.
Basically, it’s everything you would expect of a candidate running for office. None of it covers expenses incurred by Inslee in his duties as chairman of the Democratic Governor’s Association, Raad said.
“This is a bigger year,” Raad said, referencing elections in Washington. “We are building a team to not only help his political future but also to do all we can to elect Democrats up and down the ballot and pass the initiatives important to him.”
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