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Rand Paul Dominates Fundraising Race
Evan McMorris-Santoro | October 15, 2009, 4:02PM
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Rand Paul, son of congressman Ron Paul, has picked up a strong head of steam in his bid for Kentucky's open Senate seat. As FEC reports come in, Paul is leading the fundraising race by a considerable margin.
This afternoon, the Paul campaign announced it has raised just over $1 million in the third quarter. The haul is $400,000 more than his chief rival for the GOP nomination, Secretary of State Trey Grayson -- and more than double the fundraising total claimed by the leading Democrat, Lieutenant Gov. Dan Mongiardo.
The Paul campaign detailed their fundraising in a release this afternoon:
Dr. Paul was able to leverage strong grassroots support and attract over 14,000 individual contributions averaging less than $75 each.
The grassroots prowess of Rand's father is, of course, legendary. Today's fundraising results suggest that Rand is a chip off the old block.
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mcc
October 15, 2009 4:12 PM
This afternoon, the Paul campaign announced it has raised just over $1 million in the third quarter
Is there any way to know how much of it was out-of-state?
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Dorn76
October 15, 2009 4:30 PM
Nothing speaks to Ron Paul's philosophy of individual rights and smaller government like a good ole dose of nepotism!
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Powkat
October 15, 2009 5:00 PM in reply to Dorn76
Oh man, now even the libertarian wackos are hypocrites. You used to be able to depend on them for purity of thought, if not logic or sanity.
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KY Yellow Dog
October 16, 2009 9:01 AM
Big gaps in this one, Evan. Try reading the Kentucky media and blogs instead of just Politico.
1) Mongiardo is not only NOT the "leading Democrat," his own multiple fuckups in the past weeks have him on the verge of being forced out of the race.
2) Which would be a shame, because the actual leading Democratic candidate, Attorney General Jack Conway, is a miserable Blue Dog hypocrite almost as bad as ol' Mangy. Conway, however, raised more than $700,000 this quarter - better than anyone but Paul - and leads ALL candidates in total donations with $2 million.
3) Reporters asked Paul's campaign point-blank what percentage of donations came from Kentucky and they specifically refused to answer. Translation: way under half and probably less than 10 percent.
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Edwardo
October 16, 2009 4:06 PM
We Kentuckians are on the verge of getting a senator that will uphold the Constitution, and the big-govt-worshiping loons on TPM think Rand should be disqualified based just on having a well-known father and/or receiving nationwide support??
Very deep.
Please do read about the issues on http://www.randpaul2010.com/issues/
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