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Barrett fundraising nears $500,000

By Larry Sandler of the Journal Sentinel
July 14, 2011 8:00 a.m. |(21) Comments

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett raised almost $500,000 for his re-election campaign in the first six months of this year, a campaign aide said Wednesday.

Full campaign finance reports are to be filed by next week with state and local election authorities, for the period from Jan. 1 through June 30.

Campaign adviser Patrick Guarasci said Barrett's fundraising was both a personal best and the most ever raised by any Milwaukee mayor in any reporting period. Those claims could not be immediately verified.

Barrett has said he is seeking a third four-year term in the spring 2012 mayoral election. No other candidates have emerged yet in that race.

Nonetheless, Guarasci said, Barrett's fundraising shows "we're not taking anything for granted about his mayoral re-election."

Barrett, a Democrat, lost the November gubernatorial election to Republican Scott Walker, then Milwaukee County executive and now governor. 


In the wake of Walker's efforts to end most collective bargaining for most public employee unions, the governor's opponents have said they plan to mount a recall drive against him next year, the earliest such an effort could legally begin. If recall backers could obtain enough petition signatures to force an election, Barrett and former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold are considered possible Democratic candidates, while other leading Democrats, such as U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, are weighing a race to succeed retiring Sen. Herb Kohl.

Barrett has ruled himself out of the Senate race but has not said whether he would seek a rematch with Walker in a possible recall. Guarasci continued to focus on the mayoral race, noting that no gubernatorial election is currently scheduled until 2014.

Some of Barrett's contributions are coming from outside the city and outside the state, Guarasci said. But he added that "a large majority" of the mayor's donors live and work in Milwaukee.

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