IL-Sen: Burris Raises $845.00

[ccharles000]

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.

http://www.swingstateproject.com/diary/4794/ilsen-burris-raises-84500

[w4rma]

1. Good! (nt)

[AZ Criminal JD]

2. A multi-millionaire named Blair Hull tried to buy the primary in 2004

Someone named Obama won that one. Money isn't everything. Roland will do just fine.