Cash pours into state campaigns from afar
Article by: KEVIN DIAZ and COREY MITCHELL , Star Tribune staff writers
Updated: July 16, 2012 - 10:01 PM
Candidates increasingly find money outside of Minnesota.
WASHINGTON -- Riding a wave of national publicity fed by her six-month quest for the presidency, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann took in the biggest haul of campaign cash of any Minnesota politician in the past three months, most of it from out of state.
Facing what could be a well-funded challenge from DFL millionaire businessman Jim Graves, the Minnesota Republican has turned to a nationwide base of donors built over the course of her Tea Party-tinged run for the GOP presidential nomination last year.
A Star Tribune analysis of her most recent financial reports shows that up to 80 percent of her reported contributions came from individuals outside Minnesota, up from 63 percent in a similar study done in April 2010.
In the first election where well-funded independent groups will have a free hand in spending on the state's most competitive races, Bachmann is not the only candidate casting her net far and wide via the Internet to bolster her campaign's finances ...
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