The quarterly Federal Election Commission filings are out, and it's not good news for Chris Lee. His fundraising for the July-September period dropped massively to just $142,000. That's compared to $235,000 for the previous quarter, and $224,000 for the quarter before that. Minus his $95,000 in "operating expenses" (which seems ridiculously high to me for a campaign that's not currently campaigning), that means Lee put just $47,000 towards his cash on hand this quarter.
That's bad for him, since his cash on hand is now the princely sum of $390,000, minus the $250,000 worth of debt his campaign still owes from the election last year. Generally speaking, fundraising for incumbents is supposed to get better as you get closer to the election.
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