Posted on 06/03/2006 9:00:12 PM PDT by CedarDave
SANTA FE— Gov. Bill Richardson raised more than a half-million dollars for his re-election bid during the past month and has stockpiled $5.7 million in his campaign account for the upcoming general election race.
The Democratic governor holds a huge fundraising advantage over Republican J.R. Damron, who reported a $43,827 cash balance in his campaign as of Tuesday— a week before the primary election.
According to a campaign finance report filed Thursday, Richardson collected $553,084 in contributions from May 2 through May 30. His campaign spent $415,371 and has a cash balance of $5.7 million.
Damron, a Santa Fe radiologist, received $23,804 in contributions and spent $746. His contributions included $10,000 from the campaign of GOP lieutenant governor candidate Sue Wilson Beffort.
Among the top contributors to Richardson: Zorro Trust, New York, $50,000; Stewart Reid, a Greenwich, Conn., businessman, $50,000; David Steiner, an Orange, N.J., investor, $25,000; Eleni Tsakopoulos, a Sacramento, Calif., land developer, $25,000; Norman Hsu, of New York, president of a clothing company, $10,000; D.L. Horton, a Hatch dairyman, $10,000; Bergit Salazar of Santa Fe, deputy secretary, Department of Cultural Affairs, $10,000; and the campaign of Georgia Democratic state Sen. Sam Zamarripa, $10,000.
Zamarripa, one of three Hispanic lawmakers in the Georgia Legislature, was a vocal opponent of legislation in Georgia to crack down on illegal immigrants.
Richardson is raising money for his re-election at a pace that could surpass his record-setting 2002 campaign. The latest report brought Richardson's total fundraising to $7.5 million in monetary and in-kind contributions. He has cumulative campaign expenditures of nearly $1.8 million since 2003, when he took office.
When he ran for governor in 2002, Richardson spent slightly more than $7 million on his winning primary and general election campaign and raised more than $8 million in monetary and in-kind contributions.
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FYI
If Richardson was a Republican he would be under indictment or already in prison.
Richardson is being rewarded with a lot of out-of-state cash because he was the one that so successfully got the ball rolling at this election cycle with the illegal immigration issue by suddenly out of the blue declaring a "State of Emergency about illegal immigrants".
No other Democrat has been so successful at raising an issue to screw over Republicans as Richardson has and not many Republicans, especially Conservatives, in the hysterics of illegals even noticed but many Democrats sure did.
check his freezer and his pants legs and see what happens.
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