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| News Date | Friday, July 16, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Lara Jakes Jordan
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Friday, July 16, 2004
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter has so far spent more than $15 million to defend the Senate seat that he nearly lost in the closest Republican primary challenge of his career, according to Federal Election Commission records filed Thursday.
But Specter, Pennsylvania's four-term senator, still raised twice as much as his Democratic challenger, Rep. Joe Hoeffel, over the last three months, the records show.
Specter raised $2.3 million between April 8 and June 30, the most recent FEC campaign finance reporting period. He now has $3.3 million in his campaign bank account after spending $3.5 million in the reporting period that included the state's April 27 primary -- which Specter, a political moderate, won by a mere 12,603 votes over conservative Rep. Pat Toomey.
In all, Specter has spent $15.3 million since the election cycle began in 1999, records show.
"It took Arlen Specter $15 million to barely eke by in the primary, and now, while Joe Hoeffel's fund-raising numbers have nearly doubled, Specter's didn't move," said Hoeffel campaign manager Celia Fischer. "The bottom line is Pennsylvanians are responding to Hoeffel's determination to change the course in Washington, and rejecting Specter's defense of a failed Bush-Cheney agenda."
Specter's camp countered that Hoeffel has yet to attract any more support than when the Democrat declared his candidacy a year ago. |
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