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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Gregoire's April fundraising totals, updated

Posted by Niki Sullivan @ 01:37:08 pm

I asked campaign representatives from Gov. Chris Gregoire and challenger Dino Rossi's campaigns today for their April numbers. I've already gotten a ballpark figure for each campaign and an e-mail to Gregoire supporters that gives their haul for the month.

The response: We won't have final numbers until Monday, the deadline to file to the PDC.

I understand: No campaign wants the other campaign to know exactly how they're doing until they absolutely have to, which is the 10th of every month.

But give me some credit! I know you know. And now, courtesy of an e-mail sent to a handful of Gregoire supporters, you know that I know.

Without further delay:

April 2008
Total contributions: $1,323,089.49
Number of contributors: 6,353
Average contribution last month: $160.27

Cycle-to-date
Total contributions: $6,011,067.84
Number of contributors: 21,635
Average contribution: $167.20

So, Rossi's campaign told me earlier that they had about $3.1 million cash-on-hand. In the one of the last lines of the memo I received it says: Gregoire "will end April with around $1 million more in cash-on-hand." That means $4.1 million, give or take. Or does it? Because that might mean that she spent zero dollars, and statewide bus tours cost money.

Maybe the seemingly quickly written letter (there's a few grammar problems, but who am I to complain?) should have said a million more than last month, which would mean they'd have spent .3 of the $1.3 million raised.

I'm working on it. Stay tuned.

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