The current NHL players union head has dropped more than $240,000 in campaign cash this year, spreading donations to dozens of nonprofits, sports organizations, and other groups. None of it, Walsh said, is politically driven.
Raimondo and McKee share the same consultant.
Governor Dan McKee’s election campaign announced on Tuesday that it has engaged Rising Tide Interactive, “a full-service digital marketing agency, to implement comprehensive digital fundraising and persuasion programs.”
The firm worked for former Governor Gina Raimondo’s 2014 and 2018 campaigns and her campaign paid them in excess of $725,000.
McKee’s campaign claims, “Rising Tide Interactive’s work has helped win 30 US Senate and gubernatorial contests. In the past two election cycles, the firm s clients have included the campaigns of Senators Jeanne Shaheen, Mark Warner, Jackie Rosen, Kyrsten Sinema and Tim Kaine and Governors Andy Beshear, and Kate Brown. GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST
PROVIDENCE Gov. Dan McKee is staffing up for a 2022 run for the office he acquired by happenstance on March 2 when Gina Raimondo quit mid-term to go to Washington, and leapt from lieutenant governor to governor.
The McKee 2022 campaign on Monday confirmed the hiring of SKDK as his campaign consultant, LB Strategies as his fundraising consultants and David Binder - who has polled in the past for big-name national politicians, including former President Barack Obama - as his pollster.
The campaign plans to hire a full-time finance director in the near future, according to McKee.
The hirings are clearly aimed at shoring up McKee s ground game in a Democratic primary against three or more potential challengers, including state Treas. Seth Magaziner, Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea and Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza.