Republican gubernatorial hopeful Mike Kennealy plans to continue ignoring a state law that limits the amount of cash a candidate for governor can loan themselves each election, even after regulators asked him multiple times to reclassify hundreds of thousands of dollars he has loaned his campaign, his lawyer said in a letter this summer.

Kennealy, a former cabinet secretary under Gov. Charlie Baker, has pledged to seed his campaign with $2 million in loans, and he has largely relied on that self-funding to kick-start his gubernatorial run.

But the loans, including $200,000 he handed his campaign last month, have started to draw scrutiny from state regulators because of a Massachusetts law that limits candidate loans at $200,000 per election cycle.

In multiple letters this summer, an aud

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