Ken Griffin gives half mil to Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava

Citadel founder Ken Griffin, who wants to build a $1 billion tower in Downtown Miami for his company’s new headquarters, gave $500,000 to Our Democracy, the political action committee for incumbent Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, who is defending her throne from six challengers.

Ladra doesn’t know about you dear readers, but that makes me a little uncomfortable. Griffin is a smart guy at the top of the business world. He’s a hedge fund giant, and knows how to invest. He’s not going to throw money away. What is this investment for?

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Griffin is the same guy who gave Miami Mayor Francis Suarez $1 million during his delusional, 5-minute presidential campaign. In fact, he is normally a Republican donor, having given also to Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Hey Ken, darling, here’s Political Cortadito’s donation page. Invest in grassroots government watchdog journalism. It’s a better cause.

This brings DLC’s total fundraising for her PAC to over $10.2 million since 2019, $1.6 million just this year. She has just over $2.1 million in hand counting the campaign contributions in her campaign account also, as of the latest campaign reports submitted Friday.

She’s also spreading the wealth. Four days after the PAC got the Griffin check, it gave $15,000 to the New Leadership for Florida — which is another PAC for her consultant, Christian Ulvert — and a week after getting it the PAC gave $50,000 to the Florida Democratic Party.