Donnelly raises over $900,000 in second quarter

This post comes from our good friend and Gary Snyder Show contributor Abdul Hakim-Shabazz at Indypolitics.org

The Washington Post political blog, “The Fix” is reporting that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) ramped up his fundraising significantly in the second quarter and will soon announce that he raised $900,000 for the three-month period.

According to the Fix…

The fundraising sum should hearten Democrats, who are hopeful that Donnelly can compete for Indiana’s open Senate seat now that Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) has lost his primary. Donnelly faces state Treasurer Richard Mourdock.

Donnelly had been raising money at a very slow pace in previous quarters, pulling in less than $400,000 in each of the last three quarters. But he appeared to get a bump when Lugar lost the primary, and he’s likely to have more money in the bank than Mourdock, who spent heavily in the primary. Mourdock hasn’t announced his fundraising totals yet.

Comments

[Ryan]

Mourdock managed to bring in $1.4 million so far.

But, when you sleaze around with white collar criminals and promise to do everything they want from you, they're more likely to cut you a check.

So Mourdock should probably be expected to have more money. The good news is that I believe enough people see right through this Shyster that Donnelly has a pretty decent chance even if he does get outspent 2-1.