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Raoul, Rotering top fundraising list for AG

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* The Tribune looks at reported campaign contributions so far in the attorney general’s race…

*Among the eight Democrats running in the March 20 primary, state Sen. Kwame Raoul tops the field in money so far. The longtime lawmaker started with more than $406,000 in the bank at the end of September and has added about $540,000 in donations since.

*In many cases, candidates have written big checks to their campaign funds. That includes Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering, who gave her campaign loans of $178,000 last week, listing a total of about $530,000 in fundraising in the last quarter.

*Chicago Park District President Jesse Ruiz has loaned his campaign $100,000 and contributed a few thousand more, and records show he has raised about $475,000 so far.

*State Rep. Scott Drury recently chipped in $170,000 to his bid and has collected about $364,000 all told.

According to the article, former Gov. Quinn has reported raising about $81K. Sharon Fairley chipped in about $240K to her own campaign. Aaron Goldstein gave himself $185K and raised less than $9K. Renato Mariotti raised about $160,000.

posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Jan 3, 18 @ 9:33 am

Comments

Well, the cream is rising to the top.

Comment by Come on, Man! Wednesday, Jan 3, 18 @ 9:40 am
A former Governor raised $81,000 for a statewide race? Sad!

Comment by Snucka Wednesday, Jan 3, 18 @ 9:40 am
Not much big money. Goldstein said he would not defend any further pension theft laws. Mariotti is running on prosecuting Trumps under state laws in case of pardons though I think that would be a states art. Have heard nothing on the others.

Comment by Not a Billionaire Wednesday, Jan 3, 18 @ 9:48 am
Does Quinn even have a website yet?

Comment by NIU Grad Wednesday, Jan 3, 18 @ 9:55 am
Quinn has a website it just doesn’t work anywhere outside of Cook County.

Comment by Almost the Weekend Wednesday, Jan 3, 18 @ 10:05 am
5 more days to report Q4 A1s… but Drury appears to have a sizeable hold on second place for cash on hand since rotering and ruiz started at basically zero and Drury started at 300k

Comment by PatchAdams Wednesday, Jan 3, 18 @ 10:46 am
Per the Tribune, Harold will have over $200k on hand? That’s pretty good. If she gets lucky and Quinn eeks out a win in the Dem primary, she’ll be pretty competitive.

Comment by DarkHorse Wednesday, Jan 3, 18 @ 3:36 pm