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A Look at 2005 Michigan Political Fund Raising

George Weeks writes that state officeholders raised over $10 million in calendar year 2005. Gov. Granholm accounted for $5 million of that total. As for the other side, Weeks writes: "As for Republican nominee-in-waiting Dick DeVos, who has the deepest pockets of any Michigan gubernatorial candidate ever and in the end will spend whatever he figures is needed, MCFN said his campaign accumulated $1.9 million as of the end of 2005." Among state senators the top 4 in building their election war chests were Senators Alan Sanborn from Macomb County, Bruce Patterson of Canton Township, Jason Allen of Traverse City, Sen. Tony Stamas of Midland (all Republicans).

Read War chests starting to fill up in the Escanaba Daily Press
Michigan Campaign Finance Network web site (Read the MCFN March Newsletter in PDF Format)

Posted/updated Mar 30, 2006
by Andrew McFarlane (Absolute Michigan)