Published July 16, 2012 at 8:43 p.m.
Updated at 8:45 a.m. with corrected figures for state auditor candidate Vince Illuzzi
There were two big surprises for those waiting at the Vermont Secretary of State's office Monday afternoon for candidates to drop off their first campaign finance reports of the election season.
The first came when Republican gubernatorial candidate Randy Brock's fundraiser, Darcie Johnston, stopped by at 4:30 p.m. to file her boss's report. Brock (pictured) had raised roughly $529,000, she said — an impressive figure for a Vermont Republican challenging a popular incumbent Democrat. In fact, it was more than the $492,132 Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin raised over the past year — and not too far from the gov's total two-year haul of $679,512.
The second surprise came when the assembled reporters got their mitts on Brock's actual filing. Turns out the Franklin County state senator raised just $229,596 from actual donors — and loaned himself a whopping $300,000.
That's gotta be almost enough to pay for Shummy's Titanic-Care plan!
With less than four months until election day, the gov has $602,544 cash-on-hand. So far, he's spent $76,967 on his non-campaign for reelection. Brock, on the other hand, has been spending up a storm: $282,269 on his only-months-old campaign. That's only $53,000 more than he's raised from people whose names are not Randy Brock.
In other topline news from today's filings:
There's a lot more to unpack here. We'll be writing more about the filings in this week's Fair Game column and, if we get around to it, right here on Blurt. You can also read our previous posts on Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign finance report, as well as Congressman Peter Welch's.
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