{"id":261775,"date":"2010-02-01T18:05:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.70873"},"modified":"2010-02-01T18:18:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:18:02","slug":"all-those-money-bombs-really-add-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/261775","title":{"rendered":"All those money bombs really add up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Schiff, the author-broker-pundit turned Republican U.S. Senate candidate, reports raising more than $1.4 million in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff&#8217;s&nbsp;4th quarter filing with the Federal Election Commission is not yet posted online, but his campaign spokesman said late this afternoon that he raised $1,485,920.05.<\/p>\n<p>How much of&nbsp;the total came from Connecticut donors was not disclosed. Schiff has a national network of supporters who have launched several money bombs &#8212; one-day online fundraising blitzes &#8212; that have each brought in significant sums.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am proud of the financial support that I am receiving from supporters in the Nutmeg State and from around the country,&#8221; Schiff said in the press release touting his fundraising numbers. &#8220;This is a testament that our message is resonating, that the time has come to end business as usual in Washington &#8211; not from the top down but from the bottom up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schiff spent a total of $398,569.28 and had a year-end cash-on-hand of $1,087,350.77. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Schiff, the author-broker-pundit turned Republican U.S. Senate candidate, reports raising more than $1.4 million in 2009. Schiff&#8217;s&nbsp;4th quarter filing with the Federal Election Commission is not yet posted online, but his campaign spokesman said late this afternoon that he raised $1,485,920.05. How much of&nbsp;the total came from Connecticut donors was not disclosed. Schiff has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261775","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\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}