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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Fri Oct 25, 2013, 05:28 PM Oct 2013

De Blasio rakes in $3.7 million

JONATHAN LEMIRE | AP

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio is set to announce that his campaign has raised $3.7 million over the last three weeks.

That's according to a campaign staffer for de Blasio, the Democrat nominee. The person is not authorized to publicly discuss fundraising and therefore spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

De Blasio's total dwarfs the approximately $700,000 raised during the same period by his Republican rival Joe Lhota.

Lhota's total was also revealed by a campaign staffer not authorized to discuss fundraising.

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De Blasio rakes in $3.7 million (Original Post) hrmjustin Oct 2013 OP

Holy cow! tblue Oct 2013 #1

Bloomberg spent about 100 million in each of his races. hrmjustin Oct 2013 #2

and that probably doesn't include under the table $$ nt msongs Oct 2013 #3

No probably not. hrmjustin Oct 2013 #4

Unless he needs it to retire his debt, we'd all be better off of he just returned the $$$. Smarmie Doofus Oct 2013 #5

tblue

(16,350 posts)

1. Holy cow!

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 05:32 PM

Oct 2013

Sounds like a lotta moolah, but I guess I have no idea what's normal for a mayoral race in NYC. But this is very cool!

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

2. Bloomberg spent about 100 million in each of his races.

Reply to tblue (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 05:34 PM

Oct 2013

This is more normal. We have a city wide matching fund system.

msongs

(67,406 posts)

3. and that probably doesn't include under the table $$ nt

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 05:37 PM

Oct 2013

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

4. No probably not.

Reply to msongs (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 05:40 PM

Oct 2013

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)

5. Unless he needs it to retire his debt, we'd all be better off of he just returned the $$$.

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Sun Oct 27, 2013, 12:56 PM

Oct 2013

People who are sending $$$ at this point are just buying influence.

If he returned the cash.... dB could concentrate on exclusively serving the interests of the people w/o money who are about to elect him.

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