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Toomey: $2.3M in one quarter
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Apr 05, 2010 11:29pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, April 6, 2010 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "Republican Senate hopeful Pat Toomey has just had his best fundraising quarter to date.
Toomey’’s campaign said Monday that it racked up $2.3 million in contributions in the first three months of 2010, signaling a significant uptake in its fundraising pace. When campaign finance reports are filed later this month, Toomey will report more than $4 million in cash on hand.
“I am very appreciative of the deluge of support I have received for my candidacy,” Toomey said in a statement. “As I travel across the state, I meet more and more Pennsylvanians who want to join our campaign and help bring true change and fiscal sanity to Washington. If I am elected to the U.S. Senate, I intend to do just that.”
Toomey still has less campaign cash than either of his Democratic opponents, but unlike Arlen Specter or Joe Sestak, Toomey doesn’t have to spend heavily in the primary, in which his only competition is underdog conservative activist Peg Luksik. Toomey already bested both Sestak and Specter in fundraising during the fourth quarter of 2009, and his fundraising pace increased by about 45 percent in the first quarter of this year. Toomey’s campaign said it has more than 40,000 original donors.
Specter and Sestak have yet to release their first-quarter numbers.
Democrats immediately tried to frame Toomey’s fundraising prowess as evidence of his Wall Street backing." |
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