1st Quarter State Party fundraising

by: Jason Springer

Fri May 01, 2009 at 03:30:00 PM EDT

The RSC raised $50,753, spent $53,898 and ended March with $18,052 in the bank. Factoring in its debts, the party actually began April in a $118,297 hole. (For comparison purposes, the Democratic State Committee raised $720,757, spent $306,331, had $436,902 on hand and a net worth of $314,965.)

Of the $50,753 raised, $14,415 came in small donations of $300 or less that don?t have to be itemized in the campaign reports filed with the state. Another $36,300 was in larger donations ? and all but $3,300 of that was actually just redirected money contributed up the chain by Republican state lawmakers from their own campaign accounts. And $1,300 of that $3,300 came from either a former GOP lawmaker or a former GOP county chairman.