Cumbo reaches $100,000 mark in fundraising
City Council hopeful Laurie Cumbo, who made news when she filed an astounding 10,000 petition signatures with the Board of Elections to secure a place on the ballot for the September Democratic Primary, is now boasting that her campaign has raised an impressive $100,000 in donations.
“I am honored by the backing my candidacy has amassed during this period,” said Cumbo, the former director of MoCADA, Brooklyn’s Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts. She is running for the council seat in the 35th District, a district that covers Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. The district also includes parts of Bedford-Stuyvesant. The seat is currently held by Democrat Letitia James, who is running for public advocate.
Cumbo said her donations have come from a “grassroots team of over 800 supporters” and that 80 percent of the donations were $100 or less.