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By Colin Campbell 1/19/12 10:26am

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Michael Grimm (Photo: Facebook)

Michael Grimm Has $1 Million in the Bank

Congressman Michael Grimm will report raising enough to have just over $1 million cash on hand, Politicker has learned.  As New York City Congressional campaigns can be extremely expensive, the fundraising tally places a heavy marker down as the Republican Representative seeks his second term in the House.

Although it’s not immediately clear how much he raised since his last filing, where he reported $630,000 on hand, a source familiar with the Congressman’s fundraising said it was substantial. ”He came off his best quarter yet. His support is certainly growing and getting stronger.”

Both national and local Democrats have been recently escalating their campaigns to defeat the Congressman. Read More

By Colin Campbell 1/09/12 9:37am

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George Maragos

George Maragos Says He's Already Put $1 Million Into His Senate Campaign

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who’s running in the GOP primary against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, has recently given his campaign a big boost in the form of a million dollars, he announced at a Sunday event hosted by the Brooklyn Tea Party.

Mr. Maragos, a former Vice President at Chase and Citicorp, had already acknowledged in a December Capital Tonight interview that he would commit up to $5 million into his own campaign if he got the Republican nomination, and that he had placed around $120,000 into his primary thus far.

But now it seems he has significantly expanded his investment. “By the way, in the financial disclosure that I’m making, as of December 31st, I’ve already put a million dollars into my campaign account,” Mr. Maragos said in response to a question about how he’d compete financially on such a large stage. Read More