SACRAMENTO, Calif. – State Attorney General Jerry Brown and former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman have raised the most campaign money this year for the 2010 California governor's race.
Brown said he collected $7.3 million through Tuesday, the end of the reporting period for the first half of the year. The Democrat has not formally announced he is running for the office he held from 1975 to 1983.
Whitman, a Republican, said her campaign brought in $6.5 million on top of her own $4 million contribution. San Francisco's Democratic Mayor Gavin Newsom raised $1.6 million.
Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, a Republican, did not release a figure for the reporting period but said he has raised more than $1.2 million to date.