{"id":220067,"date":"2026-05-05T00:57:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220067\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T00:57:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:57:02","slug":"elec-team-booker-raises-14k-has-75k-coh-for-bayonne-races-as-of-may-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220067\/","title":{"rendered":"ELEC: Team Booker raises 14k, has $75k COH, for Bayonne races as of May 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bayonne Councilman at-Large Loyad Booker, a mayoral candidate, and his five City Council running mates raised a total of $13,665 and has a combined $75,401.66 cash on hand, according to the 11-day pre-election campaign finance reports.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Screenshot via Instagram Reel.<\/p>\n

By John Heinis\/Hudson County View<\/p>\n

Booker raised $65, spent $15,677.35, and has $35,199.83 cash on hand in his individual account, according to his May 1st report<\/a> filed with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (NJ ELEC).<\/p>\n

He spent $11,548.29 on West New York\u2019s Royal Printing for printing and mailing services, which only other expense to reach five figures is purchasing $1,065.82 in expenses from Lowes for supplies for hanging campaign signs.<\/p>\n

Booker\u2019s running mates raised a combined $13,600, spent $10,534.28, and has $40,201.83 cash on hand, their May 1st ELEC report<\/a> shows.<\/p>\n

Leonid Dimentman, of American Home Builders, contributed $2,600, and former 2nd Ward Councilman\/Team Booker council candidate Sal Gullace gave $2,000.<\/p>\n

They paid Florida\u2019s All Time Agency $2,909.20 for media advertisements, $1,920 for an ad in Bayonne\u2019s TV Talk Magazine, compensating the U.S. Postal Service $1,634.19 for mailing postage, and Bayonne\u2019s J & J Printing received $1,358.56 for printing services.<\/p>\n

Team Booker is still being outraised by Sharon Ashe-Nadrowski and her slate, while the third candidate in the mayoral race, city Business Administrator\/Board of Education President Mary Jane Desmond has not filed any ELEC reports.<\/p>\n

She said at HCV\u2019s mayoral debate<\/a> at Bayonne High School on April 20th that she is not doing any fundraising for the non-partisan May 12th contest and that any funds her and her three runnings mates use will be from her own money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bayonne Councilman at-Large Loyad Booker, a mayoral candidate, and his five City Council running mates raised a total…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[34079,34080,78680,9,24,78681,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-220067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-2026-bayonne-mayoral-race","tag-loyad-booker","tag-new-jersey-election-law-enforcement-commission","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nj-elec","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}