Honour kicks in another $500K to governor campaign
Republican Scott Honour has spent another $500,000 from his personal fortune on his campaign for governor.
Honour, a former director of a California-based global investment group, has spent $901,000 on his campaign over the last two years.
Honour’s campaign adviser, Pat Shortridge emphasized Honour’s outsider status when confirming the latest report.
"From the start, Scott's made sure the campaign has what it takes financially to win the governor's race,” Shortridge wrote in an e-mail. “But this campaign is about a lot more than money. It's about who voters can trust to make real change in St. Paul.”
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Honour started running TV ads on Fox News last week. His latest contribution to the campaign was first reported by Politics.MN.
He is challenging Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Johnson, former state Rep. Marty Seifert and state Rep. Kurt Zellers in the Aug. 12 primary.
A spokesman for Johnson says Johnson is still in the hospital recovering from abdominal surgery for a peptic ulcer. The procedure was done earlier this week after Johnson complained of stomach pain.
A spokesman for Johnson’s campaign said he expects Johnson to be released from the hospital "in a day or two." He said there have been no complications from the surgery.