Posted on 06/30/2003 4:53:20 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War
The Senate's majority Republicans have a slight edge over their Democratic counterparts in early campaign cash, raising about $14.1 million in the first half of the year compared to about $10.6 million for the Democrats.
The picture was far different for the parties' national committees. The Republican National Committee (news - web sites) raised nearly three times as much as its Democratic rival. The RNC took in about $54.8 million so far this year, while the Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) raised about $18.4 million.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee, hoping to expand its slim Senate majority in next year's elections, finished June with more than $5 million on hand and no debt, the group said Monday. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee had more than $2 million in the bank and $4.4 million in debt.
Republicans hold 51 Senate seats to the Democrats' 48 with one independent.
The NRSC got a boost from a $2,500-per-person fund-raiser President Bush (news - web sites) headlined for the campaign committee and House Republicans in May, with $8 million raised for Senate Republicans. Not all of that money may have arrived at the NRSC by the close of the second fund-raising quarter Monday.
Sen. Jon Corzine (news, bio, voting record) of New Jersey, the DSCC chairman, held fund-raisers for the committee in 16 cities in the most recent period from April through June and has donated $25,000 of his own money to the group, spokesman Mike Siegel said. A New York event last month featuring New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites) and other Democratic women in the Senate raised $350,000 for the committee, he said.
The Republican National Committee estimated it raised about $25.5 million from April through June. Its cash on hand figure was not immediately available.
The Democratic National Committee raised $10 million during the second quarter. It has $6.5 million on hand and no debt.
DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe said in a written statement that the committee has raised more than three times as much over the Internet so far this year as it did during the first half of 2002. It collected more than $100,000 on a single day in June, he said.
Cool. Tough to get much credit with them numbers. Boy, what a difference being out of power makes. Hehehehe....
What is the AP talking about? Last month's FEC filing shows the RNC raised $21 million in May. So what does "from April through June" mean? All three months? The RNC raised a lot more than $25.5 million in that time period.
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