{"id":246259,"date":"2010-01-29T11:17:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75173"},"modified":"2010-01-29T11:17:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:17:58","slug":"colorado-gop-candidate-outraises-rep-ed-perlmutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/246259","title":{"rendered":"Colorado GOP Candidate Outraises Rep. Ed Perlmutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Frazier, one of the crop of strong African-American Republican candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/62304\/black-gop-candidates-mount-serious-2010-bids-nationwide\">I spoke to for this piece<\/a>, out-fundraised Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) in the final quarter of 2009. According to Federal Election Commission reports, Frazier&#8211;who switched from a Senate run to a House bid late last year &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nictusa.com\/cgi-bin\/dcdev\/forms\/C00461020\/448423\/\">snared $218,824<\/a> in contributions, while Perlmutter raised $215,201.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a photo finish, but a sign that Perlmutter &#8212; re-elected last year by 26 points in a district that President Obama carried by 19 points &#8212; has a fight on his hands. His 2008 opponent John Lerew spent only $37,121 on his entire bid.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to TWI&#8217;s Rachel Hartman for the numbers.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Frazier, one of the crop of strong African-American Republican candidates I spoke to for this piece, out-fundraised Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) in the final quarter of 2009. According to Federal Election Commission reports, Frazier&#8211;who switched from a Senate run to a House bid late last year &#8212; snared $218,824 in contributions, while Perlmutter raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}