Bysiewicz PAC posts $104k in 1st quarter report. Has $187k on hand to spread around.

Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz’s PAC raised $104,000 from donors in the first quarter of the year, according to its most recent campaign finance report. The Power of Women PAC was heavy on the $1,000 maximum donors. Donors ponying up $1,000 each accounted for $90,000 of the Bysiewicz’s haul.

The PAC serves as a staging areas for what would be Bysiewicz’s fourth campaign for governor should Ned Lamont decide not to seek a third term in 2026. Lamont, a prolific self-funder in his four statewide campaigns since 2006, has not donated to his partner in government’s PAC.

The committee’s $8,000 in expenses included contributions to Groton, Newington, and Rocky Hill Democratic town committees. The PAC also contributed $1,000 to Bethany for Governor, Delaware Democrat Bethany Hall-Long’s campaign committee.

The committee also made a $1,000 contribution to the Denise D’Ascenzo Foundation.

Bysiewicz has a complicated history with campaign financing. She was a loud critic of Ned Lamont spending a small portion of his big fortune on his 2018 campaign–until she joined Lamont as his running mate shortly before that year’s Democratic nominating convention. She will have little to say that is credible if 2026 sees a free spending candidate with his or her own fortune enter the 2026 race. The major political parties have nominated one or both self-funding candidates in the last four gubernatorial elections.

Published April 10, 2024.