http://www.rollcall.com/issues/51_3/news/9979-1.htmlDSCC Fundraising Stellar
By Lauren W. Whittington
Roll Call Staff
July 12, 2005
Six months into the 2006 election cycle, Senate Democrats have set a torrid fundraising pace and have roughly twice the available campaign cash their GOP counterparts do, soon-to-be filed fundraising reports will show.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee finished the second quarter with a record-setting $15.2 million in the bank after raising $6.9 million in June alone.
Meanwhile, the National Republican Senatorial Committee raised $4 million in June and had $8 million left in the bank at the end of last month. The NRSC raised a total of $11 million in the second quarter of the year, compared to a $13 million three-month total for the DSCC.
Senate Democrats’ fundraising has been buoyed by a variety of factors, including the high-profile battle over judicial nominations
and the tenacity and New York fundraising base of DSCC Chairman Charles Schumer. The committee also had a schedule packed with fundraising events in June.
In fact, in six months’ time the DSCC has already eclipsed the committee’s fundraising total for all of 2003. So far this cycle Senate Democrats have raised $22.6 million, compared to the $22.4 million they took in two years ago.
“There is clearly growing concern over the Senate GOP’s failure to address the kitchen-table issues that keep Americans up at night and these numbers reflect those concerns,” DSCC spokesman Phil Singer said. “Americans recognize that the best way to get Washington to focus on their priorities is to get more Democrats elected to the U.S. Senate.”
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