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Millionaire Rebecca Bennett Used $21,250 in Campaign Donations on Childcare for Children
Oct 11, 2026
Democratic congressional candidate Rebecca Bennett has used more than $21,000 in campaign contributions to pay for childcare expenses while seeking to unseat Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr., according to a review of federal campaign-finance filings reported by Fox News.
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What is your net worth?
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>> New Jersey Democratic Congressional
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candidate Rebecca Bennett has used more
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than $21,000
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in campaign contributions to pay for
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child care expenses while seeking to
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unseat Republican representative Tom
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Kean Jr.
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>> What is your net worth?
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>> So, my when we when I transition all the
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money from individual stocks over to
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index funds and mutual funds that we
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ended up I don't know the exact number.
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I'm happy to follow up later, but I will
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say that ultimately I think what I hear
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loud and clear from people is that we
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need to get money out of politics. I
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mean it is deeply corrosive. I think you
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can draw a line from the Citizens United
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decision to where we are as a country
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right now. And so what I want you all to
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know is that I am going to work to get
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dark money out of politics to end
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Citizens United to make sure I'm not
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taking any corporate PAC money because I
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want you all to know that I am doing
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this to serve all of you.
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>> According to a review of federal
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campaign finance filings reported this
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week by Fox News. Bennett's campaign
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reportedly spent $21,250
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on child care beginning in June 2025, an
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arrangement she has publicly defended as
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necessary to time. Bennett is believed
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to have a total net worth exceeding $1
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million
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questioning her need to dip into
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campaign funds for her children. At a
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candidate debate last week, Bennett
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refused to disclose her net worth.
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During that debate hosted by the New
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Jersey Globe editor David Wildstein,
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Wildstein pressed Bennett on her net
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worth, but she deflected three times.
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>> Can you give me just I'm looking just
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for a number. Rough estimate on your net
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worth.
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>> My net worth is very similar to what we
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see of a lot of families around here.
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You know, it's that both my husband and
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I work and so we are very fortunate that
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we've been able to build the life we
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want as I mentioned in my opening
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because of the opportunities that have
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afforded me in this country.
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>> I want to just try and get a number, you
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know, let me let me let me see if I can
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just be be more broad.
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Uh are you worth over a million dollars?
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>> My Like I said, I've been VERY
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>> [laughter]
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>> I MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE worked really
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hard for where we are right now. I was
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able to go to college on ROTC
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scholarship. I used the GI bill for my
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MBA. And so, ultimately, this is about
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making sure that we are fighting for the
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version of the country that we're going
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to leave for my daughters and the next
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generation.
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>> Okay.
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