He’s In. Foley Applies for Public Financing.

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Tom Foley has applied for a public financing grant to fund his August primary campaign. If the former ambassador to Ireland win that contest against John McKinney and Mark Boughton, Foley will receive an additional $6.5 million grant for the fall cage fight with incumbent Democrat Dannel P. Malloy. Foley easily won the Republican endorsement for governor at the party’s May convention. McKinney and Boughton have not yet submitted applications for public funding.

Foley’s application for public funds should be on the state election commission agenda at its June 12th meeting.

In 2010, Foley was a persistent and active critic of the state’s generous program of funding campaigns with taxpayer funds. Foley narrowly lost that race to Malloy.