Posted on 02/04/2004 12:40:18 PM PST by JohnnyZ
WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez has raised more than $1 million for his re-election campaign.
The $363,937 the Arvada Republican raised in the last three months of 2003 put him past the $1 million mark and left him with $790,133 in the bank to beat back Jefferson County District Attorney Dave Thomas, his Democratic challenger. The money Beauprez raised comes on top of the $75,000 he lent himself after his narrow 2002 election.
By contrast, Thomas' first fundraising report, due Monday, showed that he raised $22,325 in the last three months of 2003.
Beauprez has been considered one of the most endangered Republican freshmen in Congress because his 2002 election was the closest in the country. He won by 121 votes.
Rep. Scott McInnis, R-Grand Junction, who announced last year he will retire from Congress, gave back more than $12,000 in contributions that were given to him for a 2004 re-election campaign.
In the 3rd District race to replace McInnis, state Rep. Greg Rippy, R-Glenwood Springs, reported raising $54,300.
Colorado's other members of Congress reported raising the following amounts in the last three months of last year:
Diana DeGette, D-Denver: $78,803;
Joel Hefley, R-Colorado Springs: $6,585;
Marilyn Musgrave, R-Fort Morgan: $238,549;
Tom Tancredo, R-Littleton: $101,142;
Mark Udall, D-Eldorado Springs: $129,027.
A shame. Is he calling it a career or is he taking a break?
Fresh from his November re-election as Brookhaven Town Supervisor, John Jay LaValle traveled to Washington, D.C., earlier this week, but instead of lobbying national leaders, he was the one being lobbied.
Still smarting from the defeat of the only incumbent Republican congressman in 2002, when Democrat Tim Bishop upended Felix Grucci, GOP officials in the nation's capital are looking for a top-tier candidate to take back the eastern Long Island seat.
LaValle, 36, said he went at the invitation of Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-Buffalo), who chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, to get a feel for the town and job. "They are trying to persuade me to consider the seat. It was a very good meeting; I'd say it was very, very positive."
Jan. 15th, Newsday
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/ny-sudate153627099jan15,0,5569563.story?coll=ny-lipolitics-headlines
I believe LaValle will run and take back that seat.
He's running for governor against (probably) AG Ken Salazar in 2006.
US Reps are up every 2 years, so yes. But he's unlikely to face much of a challenge.
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