{"id":1172,"date":"2009-10-23T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/23\/dem-owens-pulls-away-in-fundraising\/"},"modified":"2009-10-23T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T13:55:00","slug":"dem-owens-pulls-away-in-fundraising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/23\/dem-owens-pulls-away-in-fundraising\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Owens pulls away in fundraising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Owens appears to be pulling away in the $$ race as we approach the finish line on November 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat pulled in roughly $491,000, according to his latest filing (which doesn&#8217;t include his Obama fundraiser this week in NYC).<\/p>\n<p>Republican Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava was second with $234,000 and Conservative Doug Hoffman was third with $205,000.<\/p>\n<p>But in their reporting, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/64471-goper-scozzafava-a-distant-third-in-special-election-funds\">The Hill <\/a>includes a couple of caveats:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Hoffman self-funded $102,000 and has also reportedly seen donations take off over the last week, with more than $200,000 raised online&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That appears to leave Scozzafava a distant third in the money chase&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As of Oct. 14, the Democrat also had far more cash still on hand to spend &#8212; almost twice as much as Hoffman, and six times more $$$ than Scozzafava. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Bottom line?  It looks like Owens and Hoffman will have all the money they need down the stretch.  Scozzafava&#8230;probably not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Owens appears to be pulling away in the $$ race as we approach the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[874],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}