Republican governor candidate spends $4.4 million

Published August 1, 2014 12:52am ET



SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Republican candidate for governor Neel Kashkari reported Thursday that he spent $4.4 million on his primary race to defeat a tea party candidate for second place, but he said he started the fall campaign with less than $200,000 in his campaign account.

That’s less than 1 percent of the more than $22 million that Gov. Jerry Brown has in his bankroll. The Democratic governor filed his report last week showing he spent just $270,000 in the June primary election.

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