Steelman makes a campign funding run at Hulshof - by Kit Wager

Steelman makes a campaign funding run at Hulshof Published Kansas City Star 7/29/08 With less than a week until the primary, Kenny Hulshof has dominated fundraising among Republican candidates for governor. But Sarah Steelman more than matched him during July by lending her campaign an additional $200,000. Hulshof, the six-term congressman from Columbia, reported taking in $241,013 since June 30, bringing his total to $2.6 million. He reported spending $961,869 as the campaign heated up, leaving him with $426,772 on hand. Steelman, the state treasurer, reported taking in $130,202, which she supplemented with the $200,000 loan. That brought her total fundraising to $1.57 million plus $700,000 in personal loans. That allowed her to spend $538,563 in July and still have $503,318 on hand. Democratic candidate Jay Nixon, the attorney general who faces only token opposition, saw his fundraising slow to $92,344. But Nixon, who ran a 60-second television ad recounting his boyhood in the Jefferson County town of De Soto, spent $953,190 in July. It left him with $2.89 million on hand. In other races, Democrat Sam Page's campaign for lieutenant governor reported raising nearly three times as much as Republican incumbent Peter Kinder. Page raised $116,134 compared with $41,681 for Kinder. But Page, a state representative from St. Louis County, also spent almost twice as much — $152,941 — compared with $80,878 for Kinder, who maintained a small lead in cash on hand. In the hotly contested Democratic race for attorney general, state Sen. Chris Koster of Harrisonville raised $56,904 plus in-kind donations of $61,050. He reported spending $903,975. State Rep. Jeff Harris of Columbia reported raising $110,884 and spending $289,667. Rep. Margaret Donnelly of St. Louis County reported raising $69,001 and spending $529,276. Donnelly has lent her campaign $200,000. | Kit Wagar, kwagar@kcstar.com -- http://www.bransonedge.com http://www.bransonmissouri.blogspot.com