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Recchia raises over $1 million for congress race
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Katinas
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Call him Richie Rich. Or how about Recchia Rich?
Term-limited Councilman Domenic Recchia, who is setting his sights on congress, boasted this week that he is breaking campaign fundraising records.
Recchia said his campaign has raised more than $1 million to date. And the race doesn’t take place until 2014.
Recchia, a Democrat, announced several months ago that he will run against Republican-Conservative incumbent Michael Grimm in the 11th Congressional District (Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights-Staten Island) next year.
Read more at http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/recchia-raises-over-1-million-congress-race-2013-10-16-180000
