Posted on 08/01/2006 6:15:51 PM PDT by Reagan Man
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The Democratic and Republic parties have raised $695 million in "hard money" in the last 18 months, the U.S. Federal Election Commission says.
The FEC totaled funds raised for national, state and local elections from Jan. 1, 2005, through June 30, 2006, and said Democratic committees were given $289.3 million while Republic committees took in $405.7 million.
Republicans boasted some $112.1 million in cash on hand and the Democrats have $89.9 million in cash to draw on. Both parties have debts of about $2 million, the FEC said.
The commission said individuals gave Democrats about 77 percent of their donations and Republics saw individuals donate about 89 percent of the GOP's fundraising.
The group with the largest percentage increase over the 2004 election cycle was the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, which was given about $73 million, a 48-percent increase. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee saw funds increase 37 percent to $76.6 million.
The only Republican committee to report an increase was the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which took in $62.6 million, about 24 percent higher than the 2004 cycle.
Republicans NEED that lead. There will be tens of thousands of union workers working to elect Democrats plus some billionaires, the media and the Hollyweirdos....
donate your pesos now...!
What is this "Republic" party you speak of?
you know what this amount isn't counting? the liberal 527s like moveon.org. they are already hitting our congressional incumbents hard. but I do take a lot of comfort from these numbers
IF there weren't so many incumbant RINOs around, I would have donated this year.
I didn't write the article, but I noticed that too.
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