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.

Earl Pomeroy for Congress
Address 1:

PO Box 9335
City, State/Province, Zip/Postal:

Bismarck, ND 58506
Employer:

U S
Occupation:

Federal Congressman
Business Address 1:

PO Box 9335
Business City, State/Province, Zip/Postal: 

Bismarck, ND 58506
Date / Amount:

10/24/2006 $20,000.00

And then there’s these people from out of state:

Friedkin, Monte
Address 1:

PO Box 126100
City, State/Province, Zip/Postal:

Hialeah, FL 33012
Employer:

Monte Friedkin Properties
Occupation:

Professional
Business Address 1:

PO Box 3051
Business City, State/Province, Zip/Postal: 

Boca Raton, FL 33431
Date / Amount:

10/24/2006 $5,000.00

Mixon III, Malachi A
Address 1:

3105 Topping Lane
City, State/Province, Zip/Postal:

Hunting Valley, OH 44022
Employer:

Invacare Corp
Occupation:

Professional
Business Address 1:

3105 Topping Lane
Business City, State/Province, Zip/Postal: 

Hunting Valley, OH 44022
Date / Amount:

10/25/2006 $10,000.00

And then there’s another $3,000 from some special interest group in D.C.:

National Multi-Housing Council PAC
Address 1:

1850 M Street Ste 540
City, State/Province, Zip/Postal:

Washington, DC 20036
Date / Amount:

10/25/2006 $3,000.00

All of that information is from the campaign finance disclosure filed by the state Democrat party yesterday.  What’s interesting is that the state Democrats had filed another report just three days before this one, on October 23rd, so this means that the state Democrats got $58,000 from non-North Dakota interests in the past three days.

Comparing this to the NDGOP, according to all of their disclosures for 2006 (you can see them yourself here), the largest out-of-state contribution I could find was from the national Republican party.

Republican National Committee
Address 1:

301 1st Street SE
City, State/Province, Zip/Postal:

Washington, DC 20003
Employer:

Self
Occupation:

PAC
Business Address 1:

301 1st Street SE
Business City, State/Province, Zip/Postal: 

Washington, DC 20003
Date / Amount:

04/28/2006 $11,600.00

Pretty much the rest of the contributions are small (in the $250 - $500 range) and from North Dakotans.

Maybe Fuglie is proud that his Democrats can get all this out of state money from big-time liberal money men and special interests with which to buy North Dakota elections, but as a North Dakota citizen I’m not particularly impressed by it.