Bachmann is Minnesota's top congressional candidate fundraiser

[struggle4progress]

By Bill Salisbury
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Posted: 07/16/2012 12:01:00 AM CDT
Updated: 07/16/2012 05:09:18 PM CDT

... Bachmann raised $1.9 million from April through June, bringing her total for the two-year election cycle to $7 million. That quarterly figure was four times more than any other member of the Minnesota House delegation collected.

The 6th District Republican from West Lakeland Township had $1.7 million in her campaign treasury on June 30.

Her Democratic challenger, St. Cloud hotelier Jim Graves, had $404,000 in the bank after raising $256,000 in the last three months. That figure includes a $150,000 loan he made to his campaign on top of $100,000 that he chipped in to launch his campaign last winter.

While Bachmann's campaign is a cash machine, it isn't generating the sums she raised in 2010 when she took in $12.3 million, a U.S. House record. During the second quarter two years ago, she raised $4 million ...

http://www.twincities.com/ci_21085798/michelle-bachmann-reports-2m-bank-shifts-80-000

[struggle4progress]

1. Minnesota candidates collect money from outside the state

by Catharine Richert, Minnesota Public Radio
July 16, 2012

... Take U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for instance, a Republican running for re-election in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District. She reports raising about $1.8 million during April, May and June of this year, with $655,721 coming from individuals who gave more than $200. Only donations exceeding $200 have to be itemized.

But only $118,574, or about 18 percent, of Bachmann's haul came from Minnesota donors. The vast majority of her cash came from contributors from across the country, including Texas, California and Illinois, three states where donors were especially generous.

Bachmann is an unusual example. She has a history of spreading her net far to fill her election coffers, and her unsuccessful bid for the White House earlier this year only expanded her national name recognition.

But gathering money from out-of-state donors isn't a phenomenon limited to Bachmann's campaign. More and more, candidates are getting money from all over the nation, said Raymond J. La Raja, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst ...

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/07/16/politics/out-of-state-campaign-donors/

[Kalidurga]

3. I hate that witch...

but she is the main reason I am here. After her loonatic statements about BP I started leaning more left rather than stick to my moderate positions. That just really pushed me over the edge. That and people calling Obama a tar baby and seeing a cartoon of him eating watermelon can't remember the caption. Grrrrr, it just became too clear to me that Republicans really aren't about personal responsibility when it comes to corporations. Corporations can rape the land, strip mine, f up the environment in ways that dwarf what litter bugs do. But, litterbugs can pay a 500 dollar fine. Corporations with the help of Republicans would try to pay much less than that in terms of the damage they do. She has some nerve talking about personal responsibility and big government when 100% of her income is from tax payer money and freaking fraudulently obtained I have to add. Seriously her husband gets money for trying to pray the gay away collects big checks for it. They are the worst people in America next to the Romneys.

[annabanana]

2. Bachmann is also batshit crazy. . . . n/t

[riverwalker]

4. if you hate Bachmann

give a few bucks to her opponant. He's a good guy.

http://jimgraves.com/

[DFW]

5. I agree. Just gave him $100. n/t

An uphill battle at best, but better to have done something than nothing. He doesn't get too many donations from Texas, I'll bet!