"judge will likely decide on Minnesota government operations in event of shutdown"
http://www.twincities.com/ci_18342883
[St. Paul Pioneer Press October 2010 story]...”Dayton has raised $4.5 million and spent $4.2 million this year, according to campaign finance reports released Tuesday. The heir to his family’s department store fortune loaned his campaign $3.4 million.
“Emmer had raised $2.7 million and spent $2.2 million through mid-October.
“He raised $2 million in individual contributions, while Dayton collected $884,000 from individual donors.”
For Dayton, his second self-funded campaign was the charm:
[Sept. 10, 2000 New York Times story] "Mark Dayton, a former state auditor, is heir to the Dayton Hudson department store fortune and has spent $4.6 million, most of it his own money."