In the Pennsylvania race for governor, Democrat candidate Josh Shapiro has raised more money than all other candidates combined. Shapiro has raised more than $16 million and spent nearly $3 million. He has $13 million left to spend, and because he is unchallenged in the primary, most of that money will be available to outspend the Republican candidate who prevails in the primary.
Shapiro’s 3,044-page campaign finance report shows he has not had to loan any of his own money to his campaign and that many donors, both in and outside Pennsylvania, gave him $10,000; $20,000; $50,000; $100,000 or more. Here is an incomplete look at just a few of Shapiro’s larger donors:
- $1 million from Karla Jurvetson of Los Altos Hills, California physician and major progressive political donor.
- $500,000 from billionaire Thomas B. Hagen of Erie, chairman and former CEO of Erie Insurance Group.
- $200,000 from William Harris Jr. of Miami Beach, Florida, founder of California-based Personal Capital, an online wealth management company purchased by Empower Retirement in 2020 for more than $825 million.
- $200,000 from Deborah Simon of Carmel, Indiana, philanthropist and former head of Indiana’s Planned Parenthood.
- $100,000 from the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, which aims to “end mass criminalization and incarceration, repairing the harm caused by a criminal legal system built on structural racism,” and to prevent voter suppression and assure every person can access safe abortions, its website says.
- $100,000 from New York City Venture Capital Investor David M. Magerman $100,000 from billionaire political activist Pat Stryker of Fort Collins, Colorado.
- $100,000 from software developer Sage Weil of Madison, Wisconsin.
- $100,000 From Christian Larsen of San Francisco, California, executive chairman of Ripple, a global financial firm advancing decentralized financial technology to build a more inclusive financial system, Ripple’s website says.
- $50,000 from Yaron Minsky of New York, New York, a programmer at Jane Street Capital.
- $50,000 from Reid Hoffman of Menlo Park, California, a partner at Greylock, a venture capital firm.
- $50,000 from Pennsylvania personal injury attorney Shanin Specter of Gladwyne.
- $50,000 Joseph L. Neubauer of Philadelphia, chairman at Aramark.
- $25,000 from Scott M. Rifkin of Cockeysville, Maryland, managing partner of Mid-Atlantic Health Care, which owns nursing homes in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Rifkin is the creator of Real Time Medical Systems, software for mining medical data, according to his website.
- $25,000 from Geoff Gross of Philadelphia, founder and CEO of Medical Guardian, a wearable system that can summon an ambulance and inform family if someone falls or is injured in their home.
- $25,000 from Vinton Cerf of McLean Virginia, vice president of Google and one of the founders of the internet.
- $15,000 Jeffrey S. Shell of Beverly Hills, California, chairman of NBC Universal Film.
- $10,000 from Kevin Acklin, COO of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
- $10,000 from elected politician Doug Hoke, a York County Commissioner
