Scott Wiener and Connie Chan are leading in the congressional race to succeed Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco. Wiener raised $571,000 in the seven-week reporting period from May 14 to June 30, while Chan raised $441,000, more than double what she raised in the last filing period.

Fundraising Momentum

Chan’s fundraising boost came after Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi endorsed her campaign about two weeks before the June primary. Pelosi’s own committee gave $4,000 to Chan’s campaign, and ‘PAC to the Future,’ a committee sponsored by Pelosi, gave $10,000, according to filings.

Wiener had his own fundraising boost: a last-minute cash injection that came in the days after Wiener was accosted and made to leave the San Francisco Trans March on Friday, June 26, according to his campaign. In the four days following that confrontation, Wiener’s candidate committee received over $127,600 from 1,070 people.

PAC Support

Both Chan and Wiener have significant backing from PACs, which operate separately from their candidate committees and aren’t subject to contribution limits. Abundant Future, a PAC supporting Wiener, spent heavily in the last period opposing Saikat Chakrabarti, who came third in the primary.

Wiener, for his part, got a head start in fundraising long before he declared his run. As of June 30, he had a total of over $4.4 million in contributions. Chan had a total of close to $1.1 million. That leaves Wiener sitting on a larger war chest: As of June 30, his campaign had over $1.2 million in cash on hand, while Chan had $362,000.

Original reporting: Mission Local — read the source article.