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Durbin's GOP foe has $1.07 million
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Durbin's GOP foe has $1.07 million
July 15, 2008 9:18 a.m.
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ When Republican leaders recruited Dr. Steve Sauerberg to unseat U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, their goal was not so much to win as it was to keep the Democrats busy and on the defensive.
Sauerberg's latest campaign filing shows he has little money to take his campaign on the offensive. And he may not be able to raise significant cash or put more of his own money into the effort, though a campaign spokesman says Sauerberg will spend what it takes to win.
As of July 1, Sauerberg had $1.07 million, about $1,500 less in his campaign fund than he had three months earlier, according to the candidate's quarterly campaign finance report.
The April total was virtually all the result of the physician digging into personal assets and loaning $1.3 million to his campaign in March.
For the second quarter, Sauerberg didn't give his campaign any money.
During the last three months, his political fund's quarterly income of donations and interest totaled about $102,000, with expenses about $1,500 higher.
Although the Illinois Republican Party endorsed Sauerberg before the March primary when he ran against a freelance writer and former truck driver, hardly any cash backing has come since then from any GOP-connected organizations.
The in-state exceptions during the second quarter include $100 from the Crawford County Republican Women, 150 from the Women's Republican Club of New Trier Township, and $50 from the campaign committee of state Rep. Keith Sommer, R-Morton. Outside of Illinois, the Senate Majority Fund in Arizona donated $2,000.
Sauerberg spokesman Chris Barron said Monday that Sauerberg has not forgotten the pledge he made when he announced his candidacy to raise and spend what it would take to defeat Durbin.
'He's a man of his word,' Barron said, adding, 'I don't think there is a magic number out there.'
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