It's raining buckets of money

Posted at 1:54 PM on April 11, 2006 by Bob Collins

The AP is reporting...

Minnesota DFL Senate candidate Amy Klobuchar said Tuesday she raised $1.26 million in the first quarter of the year, a steep increase over her last reporting period. Klobuchar, the Hennepin County attorney, said she finished with about $2.5 million in the bank. Overall, her campaign said, she had raised $3.7 million in the election so far. Klobuchar's first-quarter numbers nearly doubled the amount she raised in the previous reporting period. In the fourth quarter of last year, she raised $700,000. Klobuchar's DFL opponent, Ford Bell, did not immediately release his figures Tuesday, nor did the Republican candidate, U.S. Rep. Mark Kennedy. The filing deadline is Saturday.

Update (4:07 pm): Mark Kennedy outraised (did I just make up that verb?) Klobuchar with $1.475 million raised in the first quarter and still has $3.4 million on hand. In a release, the Kennedy campaign notes that $100,000 of Klobuchar's dough came with a visit by Sen. John Kerry.

So updating the money race:

BTW, I see that the FEC has asked for more information from the Kennedy campaign regading the '05 year-end report. Apparently the FEC is not satisfied that the identity of contributors was properly provided. The response date is Thursday.

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