Pawlenty campaign raises $4.2 million in 2nd quarter

Posted at 2:24 PM on July 1, 2011 by Brett Neely (2 Comments)
Filed under: Campaign 2012, Tim Pawlenty

WASHINGTON - Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty's presidential campaign raised $4.2 million from donors in the past quarter, considerably less than the $20 million rival Republican Mitt Romney is expected to bring in.

"Gov. Pawlenty will report that his campaign has raised about $4.2 million, and begins the third quarter with more available cash-on-hand than the Republicans who won the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary had in July 2007," wrote spokesman Alex Conant in a brief email to reporters.

The low haul (some estimates from earlier this week had suggested the campaign would bring in as much as $5 million) comes as Pawlenty remains stuck far behind Romney and fellow Minnesotan Rep. Michele Bachmann in the polls.

Presidential campaigns have until July 15th to file detailed information about donations and spending to the Federal Election Commission, but many campaigns release their total fundraising haul early in order to show off to rival campaigns and prospective donors.

Bachmann has a reputation for being an aggressive and highly successful fundraiser, especially with small donors but campaign spokeswoman Alice Stewart said yesterday the campaign didn't plan to release numbers early and sought to downplay expectations.

"Keep in mind, we have only been in this for three weeks and have been working on organization and the announcement tour," Stewart wrote in an email.

Comments (2)

Goodness sakes - will someone please put Tim Pawlenty out of his misery soon? What an utter embarrassment for a once-reasonable politician to stoop to the pandering he's done to try to attract the attention of the looney right.

Posted by pdq | July 1, 2011 9:31 PM

Too bad that he didn't raise this money to pay off the state debt that he left behind.

Posted by Grace Kelly | July 3, 2011 5:38 PM

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