North Dakota Democrats Bragging About Their Money

Here’s Jim Fuglie, state director of the North Dakota Democrats, bragging about all the money his Dems have raised.

Well, you’re making it happen. We’re winning the finance wars, and that’s a good start on winning an election. Yesterday everybody—political parties, district organizations and statewide and legislative candidates–had to file their pre-election campaign finance disclosure reports. I haven’t seen all the reports yet this morning, but I’ll pick them up later today. But the newspaper reports are interesting.
They report that the State Democratic-NPL Party raised more than $800,000 this year, and the Republican Party raised about $500,000. How’s that for a switch? Republicans in this state have been buying elections for many years, but they ain’t buying one this year. Finally, our candidates are getting enough money to at least compete. In the statewide races, almost all of our candidates report raising more money this year than their Republican counterparts. The exception seems likely to be Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, who continues to tap his deep resources at the Republican Attorney General’s Association. He’s gearing up for a run at a higher office and is building name recognition this year in preparation for that.

Fuglie would have us believe that those rich, nasty Republicans have finally had the tables turned on them by the nice, grass roots Democrats.
Unfortunately, that’s just not true. Let’s take a peak at where the Democrats are getting their money, shall we?
Firs there’s Peter Angelos, left-wing money man and owner of the Baltimore Orioles:

Angelos, Peter
Address 1:
100 N Charles Street
City, State/Province, Zip/Postal:
Baltimore, MD 21201
Employer:
Angelos Law Firm
Occupation:
Professional
Business Address 1:
100 N Charles Street
Business City, State/Province, Zip/Postal:
Baltimore, MD 21201
Date / Amount:
10/25/2006 $20,000.00

Then there’s money from Earl Pomeroy’s campaign, which gets 72% of its money from out of state.