House DFLers outraised House GOP

Posted at 6:11 PM on September 8, 2008 by Tom Scheck (1 Comments)

The pre-primary campaign finance reports are in. Well, they've been in for a few weeks but I was busy in Denver, Dayton and St. Paul. Anyhoo, the House DFL Caucus is leading the House Republican Caucus in the money race.

The DFL House Caucus has $946k on hand.

The House Republicans has $876k on hand.

A DFL House staffer said it's the first time they led in the pre-primary money race in a long time.

Remember, money doesn't equal votes. DFLers also have a larger pool of incumbents to defend.

Comments (1)

Hmm...a couple of things to note.

1. A DFL House staffer said it's the first time they led in the pre-primary money race in a long time. That's because it's the first time in a long time that they've had the majority. The majority party always raises more money.

2. They got a nice $125,000 gift from the teacher's union on August 14. Without that, which came four days before the reporting period ended, they would have been ~$50K behind. Looks to me like somebody was trying to pad their report to avoid the embarrasment of being out raised.

Posted by ryanT | September 9, 2008 8:36 AM

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