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The AP is reporting...
Minnesota DFL Senate candidate Amy Klobuchar
said Tuesday she raised $1.26 million in the first quarter of the
year, a steep increase over her last reporting period.
Klobuchar, the Hennepin County attorney, said she finished with
about $2.5 million in the bank. Overall, her campaign said, she had
raised $3.7 million in the election so far.
Klobuchar's first-quarter numbers nearly doubled the amount she
raised in the previous reporting period. In the fourth quarter of
last year, she raised $700,000.
Klobuchar's DFL opponent, Ford Bell, did not immediately release
his figures Tuesday, nor did the Republican candidate, U.S. Rep.
Mark Kennedy.
The filing deadline is Saturday.
Update (4:07 pm): Mark Kennedy outraised (did I just make up that verb?) Klobuchar with $1.475 million raised in the first quarter and still has $3.4 million on hand. In a release, the Kennedy campaign notes that $100,000 of Klobuchar's dough came with a visit by Sen. John Kerry.
So updating the money race:
| Candidate | Funds |
| Mark Kennedy | $5,126,224 |
| Amy Klobuchar | $3,722,327 |
| Ford Bell | $465,793 |
| Michael Cavlan | Unknown |
| Robert Fitzgerald | Unknown |
| Harold Shudlick | $5,098 |
BTW, I see that the FEC has asked for more information from the Kennedy campaign regading the '05 year-end report. Apparently the FEC is not satisfied that the identity of contributors was properly provided. The response date is Thursday.
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