O'Donnell: Almost $1M Raised Since Primary
ABC News reports:
Tea Party-backed candidate Christine O'Donnell has raised a nearly $1 million online in the time since her surprise victory in Tuesday's Republican Senate primary in Delaware, according to her campaign.
"We're at 99% of our $1,000,000 goal," O'Donnell tweeted Thursday afternoon. "Help push us over the top."
O'Donnell's campaign said in an e-mail that it had raised it had $850,000 as of Wednesday.
"If it proves true that she has raised that kind of money in just a matter of a couple of days, then clearly that's an entirely different story than where she was a couple of weeks ago," said Dave Levinthal, editor of the Open Secrets blog for the Center for Responsive Politics, which analyzes political contributions.
According to the latest Federal Election Commission filings, O'Donnell had, before Wednesday, $20,374 in the bank.
Allegations of a checkered financial past were not enough to keep O'Donnell from a surprise victory in Tuesday's vote. But as she enters the general election and the national spotlight, the trickle of accusations -- including unpaid student debts and income taxes, IRS liens and improperly used campaign funds -- has become a steady stream.
O'Donnell, a former marketing executive and conservative pundit, has twice before run for Senate and lost, leaving in her wake a lengthy paper trail. Her defeat Tuesday of Mike Castle, a longtime Republican congressman heavily favored to win, has earned her enemies in both the Democratic and Republican parties, all of whom are digging into her financial history looking for mud to sling.
Just before voters went to go the polls, Delaware residents received a recorded message from O'Donnell's 2008 campaign manager, Kristin Murray, paid for by the state's Republican Party, alleging that O'Donnell "was living on campaign donations -- using them for rent and personal expenses, while leaving her workers unpaid and piling up thousands in debt. She wasn't concerned about conservative causes. O'Donnell just wanted to make a buck."
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Tea Party-backed candidate Christine O'Donnell has raised a nearly $1 million online in the time since her surprise victory in Tuesday's Republican Senate primary in Delaware, according to her campaign.
"We're at 99% of our $1,000,000 goal," O'Donnell tweeted Thursday afternoon. "Help push us over the top."
O'Donnell's campaign said in an e-mail that it had raised it had $850,000 as of Wednesday.
"If it proves true that she has raised that kind of money in just a matter of a couple of days, then clearly that's an entirely different story than where she was a couple of weeks ago," said Dave Levinthal, editor of the Open Secrets blog for the Center for Responsive Politics, which analyzes political contributions.
According to the latest Federal Election Commission filings, O'Donnell had, before Wednesday, $20,374 in the bank.
Allegations of a checkered financial past were not enough to keep O'Donnell from a surprise victory in Tuesday's vote. But as she enters the general election and the national spotlight, the trickle of accusations -- including unpaid student debts and income taxes, IRS liens and improperly used campaign funds -- has become a steady stream.
O'Donnell, a former marketing executive and conservative pundit, has twice before run for Senate and lost, leaving in her wake a lengthy paper trail. Her defeat Tuesday of Mike Castle, a longtime Republican congressman heavily favored to win, has earned her enemies in both the Democratic and Republican parties, all of whom are digging into her financial history looking for mud to sling.
Just before voters went to go the polls, Delaware residents received a recorded message from O'Donnell's 2008 campaign manager, Kristin Murray, paid for by the state's Republican Party, alleging that O'Donnell "was living on campaign donations -- using them for rent and personal expenses, while leaving her workers unpaid and piling up thousands in debt. She wasn't concerned about conservative causes. O'Donnell just wanted to make a buck."
