Obama reports $32 mil-plus
July 1, 2007 at 3:20 pm by Wayne GarciaFrank Sanchez, an adviser and local fundraising chairman for the Barack Obama campaign, tells PoHo that Obama is reporting $32.5 million in campaign contributions for the quarter ending June 30 (that was Saturday). That’s a record for a Democratic presidential candidate.
Of that money, an impressive $31 million is in primary dollars. (A quick primer in federal campaign rules; you can give up to $2,300 each for the primary and general elections, both on one check if you like. Some candidates use those double contributions to pump up their fundraising reports in the primary, even though they can’t legally spend the money unless they win the nomination.)
Sanchez estimated that $260,000 of that total came out of Tampa Bay, mostly from two fund raisers held in April, including a 2,000-person event in Ybor City.
More than 154,000 new donors gave to the Obama campaign between April and the end of June.
No word yet on Hillary Clinton’s quarter. The buzz (damn, hate using that word) at the Tampa Democrats For America training academy and in Orlando at the NALEO conference was it would be in the $25 million-$30 million range.
John Edwards just cracked the $9 million mark for the quarter, according to fundraising appeals from his campaign on Saturday.
