IL-Sen: Burris Raises $845.00

We told you about lousy & lousier… here comes the lousiest:

Burris campaign officials on Thursday released a report showing the new senator raised only $845 from January through March and had $111,032 in debts from defending himself in ongoing ethics and perjury probes and travel.

That’s a pretty remarkable haul (yes, that’s not even nine Benjamins), even for someone as scandal-tainted as Roland Burris. One has to almost try in order to avoid raising at least some money as a sitting Senator. (What, you mean to tell me that he couldn’t have squeezed out a couple of grand out of Bobby Rush’s campaign committee?)

Burris has his first real fundraiser scheduled for this weekend, but this kind of pathetic first quarter haul may give us a window to his 2010 intentions. If he actually does intend to give 2010 a crack, he’ll be hard-pressed to keep up with state Treasurer Alex Giannoulias, who outraised Burris by over a 1000-to-1 margin in the first quarter.

(Hat-tip to conspiracy for the catch)

19 thoughts on “IL-Sen: Burris Raises $845.00”

  1. Not $845,000?

    I remember John Warner having fundraising figures in the hundreds one quarter, and that was right before he announced his retirement. For a newbie like Burris these numbers are astonishingly bad.

  2. I take credit for “lousiest”.

    Okay, fine, anyone with half a sense of humor could have come up with it.

  3. I make about $900 per week.  So technically I outraised Roland Burris in a single week.  Hmm… if Alan Keyes can run for Senate in Illinois without living there maybe I can to?

  4. I make more then that teaching summer camps. I could raise that much in less then a day.

    It’s really silly season in terms of fundraising reports, Burris’s $845, Dodd’s 5 CT donors and Carnahan Smoking Blunt… In Fundraising. Can it get any better?

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