WASHINGTON, D. C. - Facing the most serious election challenge of his 17-year congressional career, Niles-area Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan upped his campaign fundraising this spring, more than doubling his cash stash in the years second quarter.

A report that Ryan filed Wednesday at the Federal Election Commission showed he collected $306,011 between April and June. He ended the quarter with $393,608 in the bank - more than twice the $192,641 he reported at the beginning of April.

Ryan, who represents a district that was drawn to be safe for Democrats, let his congressional campaign fundraising slip in 2019 while he mounted an unsuccessful White House bid. He ended that year with the smallest campaign warchest of any Ohio Congress member. Questions over his commitment to his congressional job and his lack of funds drew a large field of Republicans who sought the chance to run against him in November.

An experienced former state legislator, Christina Hagan of Alliance, won Aprils primary and was subsequently endorsed by President Donald Trump. Her campaign finance report shows she raised $106,846 during the quarter, spent $29,585 and had $130,190 in the bank. She got $5,000 from a PAC associated with New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik and $1,000 from a PAC associated with Rocky River GOP Rep. Anthony Gonzalez who defeated her in a primary election two years ago for the seat vacated by Rep. Jim Renaccis retirement.

Her $2,800 donors included J.M. Smucker president Emeritus Tim Smucker, Foreverlawn owner Brian Karmie, S & K Asphalt owner Nicholas Skeriotis, Kalmbach Feeds owner Paul M. Kalmbach, and businessman Michael Gibbons, who made an unsuccessful run for U.S. Senate in 2018.

Ryan raised around 90,000 from political action committees, including $5,000 donations from committees representing Goodyear, Minor League Baseball and Woolpert, Inc.. Individuals who made $2,800 donations to his campaign include alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra, Stoneyfield Farm chairman Gary Hirshberg, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, Google software engineer and bestselling author Chade-Meng Tan, GOJO Industries Inc. executive chair Marcella Kanfer Rolnick, DeBartolo Corporation owner Denise DeBartolo York and her son, San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York.

Much of the $105,663 that Ryan spent during the quarter went towards fundraising and campaign consulting. He donated $1,000 to the campaign of Democrat Amy Kennedy, who is running against party-switching New Jersey Republican Jeff Van Drew. He also donated $358.71 in pizza to the Howland Fire Department, to show support for first responders and front line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, a campaign spokesman said.

4th District:

The amount Ryan raised was dwarfed by the $3,493,674 that Champaign County GOP Rep. Jim Jordan collected during the quarter. Most of his money came from small donors around the country, with just $13,800 coming from political committees. After emerging as a high profile defender of President Donald Trump, Jordan became a fundraising juggernaut. He has raised more than $9 million during the current two year election cycle, but spent more than $7 million of it, mostly on fundraising. His $2,800 donors included Jeunesse CEO Randy Ray, former Nucor steel CEO Dan Dimicco and Gibbons, the former U.S. Senate candidate.

Jordan, who is currently the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, spent $2,916,412 of the money he collected between April and June, leaving him with $3,157,010 in the bank. He donated $2,000 to Trumps re-election campaign, and $2,000 to Hagan.

The Democrat running against Jordan, Shannon Freshour of Marysville, collected $238,881, spent $146,334 and had $123,056 in the bank. Her campaign showed a $2,800 donation from former Hillary Clinton aide Philippe Reines, $500 from Yale University historian Timothy Snyder, $100 from Adobe co-founder John Warnock and $23.26 from actress Patricia Arquette,

7th District:

Holmes County GOP Rep. Bob Gibbs raised $59,064 in the quarter, spent around $13,0027 and ended up with $592,812 in the bank. The $52,500 he raised from political committees including $5,000 donations from PACS affiliated with Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman and Williams Companies, Inc., an Oklahoma energy company. His Democratic opponent, Quentin Potter of Canton, had not filed a report by press time. A Libertarian seeking the seat -- Brandon Lape of Danville -- had $571 in the bank after raising $1,175 during the quarter and spending $891.

9th District:

Toledo Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who represents a strongly Democratic district that stretches along Lake Erie to Cleveland, collected $87,138 in the quarter, spent $163,042 and had $689,675 in the bank. Political action committees gave her campaign $67,750 in the quarter. She got $5,000 each from PACS representing Woolpert, Inc., Fluor Corporation, General Atomics, Owens Corning and Illinois Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski, who lost his primary bid for re-election.

She donated $100,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and made $1,000 contributions to more than a dozen Democratic House of Representatives candidates from all over the country.

Kapturs Republican challenger, attorney Rob Weber of Henrietta Township, raised $15,776 during the quarter, spent $12,968 and had $9,841 in the bank.

11th District:

Warrensville Heights Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge had more than $1 million in the bank after raising $60,664 in the quarter and spending $54,729. Fudge gave $5,000 to the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party and donated campaign money to several candidates in Ohio and around the country.

Fudge, who chairs the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition Oversight and Department Operations, collected more than $49,000 from political action committees, primarily representing agricultural interests like sugar beet farmers. Her individual donors included Land O Lakes Inc. president Beth Ford, who gave $2,800.

Fudges Republican challenger, Cleveland businesswoman LaVerne Jones Gore, raised $8,290, spent $7,293 and had $7,035 in her campaign account on June 30, FEC reports show. Her donors include Gibbons, the businessman who ran for U.S. Senate in 2018, who gave $2,500.

14th District

Bainbridge Township Republican Rep. Dave Joyce raised $228,712 during the years second quarter, including $99,000 from political action committees, spent $151,698 and had $1,441,817 in the bank. He collected $2,800 each from Gross Builders executives Gary and Harley Gross, Transdigm Inc. Founder Nick Howley, real estate developer James Kassouf and car dealer Diane Preston. Koch Industries political action committee gave him $5,000, as did PACs representing the National Association of Letter Carriers and the Netjets Association of Shared Aircraft.

The Democrat challenging Joyce, Hillary OConnor Mueri of Painesville Township, raised $140,071 in the quarter, spent $75,148 and had $157,576 left in her campaign treasury. Her $14,500 in political committee donations included $5,000 from a PAC associated with U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown.

16th District:

Incumbent GOP Rep. Anthony Gonzalez of Rocky River collected $223,153 in the three months covered by his latest campaign finance report, spent $80,882 and had $1,056,612 in the bank. FirstEnergy CEO Charles E. Jones, former Invacare CEO Malachi Mixon, and former Eaton Corporation CEO Sandy Cutler each gave him $2,800. He collected $111,100 from political action committees, mostly affiliated with financial services companies

His Democratic challenger, Aaron Paul Godfrey of Westlake, collected $9,660 during the quarter, spent $1,324 and had $9,491 in the bank.

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