Sen. Richard Burr is building up a sizable campaign kitty as he prepares for his re-election bid next year.
The Winston-Salem Republican reported having $2.5 million on hand at the end of June, according to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission, Rob Christensen reports. He raised $1.8 million during the first six months. The rest of it was money he carried over from the previous year.
He is raising money at about the same pace as he did during his 2004 campaign, in which he defeated Democrat Erskine Bowles. (Burr raised $1.8 million during the first half of 2003. But he had more money on hand at a similar juncture in the last campaign – $3.4 million – because he had rolled $1.7 million over from his U.S. House Committee.)
As he has in the past, Burr is strongly supported by the business community, especially the health care, pharmaceutical and insurance industries.
Among his contributors are political action committees belonging to Abbott Labaratories, AFLAC insurance, the American Bankers Association, Americans Health Insurance Plans, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Bank of America, Chevron Employees, Exxon Mobil, and Wal-Mart, Schering-Plough, Smithkline Beecham, Merck & Co., and Baxter Healthcare, American Academy of Dermatology, American Academy of Ophthalmology, American College of Physicians, American College of Radiology, American College of Rheumatology and the American College of Anesthesiologists.
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Re: Burr likey special interest money
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