{"id":519859,"date":"2010-04-07T13:23:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01347fb67b8c970c"},"modified":"2010-04-07T15:09:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T19:09:40","slug":"republican-kirk-raises-2-2-million-for-u-s-senate-seat-once-held-by-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519859","title":{"rendered":"Republican Kirk raises $2.2 million for U.S. Senate seat once held by Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by John Chase<\/em> at 12:24 p.m.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mark Kirk raised $2.2 million since the start of the year, his campaign announced today.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first fundraising totals released since the five-term North Shore congressman won the Republican Senate nomination Feb. 2. Kirk faces Democratic state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias for the Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama. It&#8217;s currently held by appointed Democratic U.S. Sen. Roland Burris, who is not seeking election.\n<\/p>\n<p>With the infusion of cash, Kirk&#8217;s campaign said it has more than $3 million left ahead of the November election. While the campaign made its money announcement today, it did not make available its financial report.<\/p>\n<p>Giannoulias&#8217; campaign declined to release its fundraising totals today, but criticized Kirk for taking campaign contributions from corporate political action committees and federal lobbyists. Giannoulias has pledged not to accept political donations from those sources.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates have until April 15 to file their campaign finance reports with the Federal Election Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by John Chase at 12:24 p.m.Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mark Kirk raised $2.2 million since the start of the year, his campaign announced today. It&#8217;s the first fundraising totals released since the five-term North Shore congressman won the Republican Senate nomination Feb. 2. Kirk faces Democratic state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias for the Senate seat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519859","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\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}