Michele Bachmann's $10 million isn't so Minnesotan

[marmar]

from the MSP City Pages:



Michele Bachmann's $10 million isn't so Minnesotan
By Hart Van Denburg, Thu., Oct. 21 2010 @ 8:15AM


​Michele Bachmann has the fattest bank account of anyone running for Congress this year, yet her district has a modest per-caita income and has been one of the hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis.

So where has she been raising her nearly $10 million haul?

A big chunk is coming from someplace else.

The Pioneer Press broke down her FEC reports and found that:

Of the $4 million Bachmann has raised in large contributions to date, $2.7 million comes from outside Minnesota.

That includes $481,000 from California, $350,000 from Texas and $277,000 from Florida.

A quick check of the latest FEC figures shows that Bachmann has raised $9,752,935 in the campaign so far -- more than every other House campaign in the state combined. She's spent $6,158,116 and has $3,578,916 in cash on hand. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2010/10/michele_bachman_147.php

[Canuckistanian]

1. I don't think this comes as a surprise

She seems to have been chosen as some kind of standard-bearer in Teabag land.

And with the Citizen's United situation, there's probably been fundraising all across the country for her. But we'll never know exactly how much, will we?

[RedCloud]

2. What can you expect from a repuppetagain?