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California, New York Elites Fill Warren’s Campaign Coffers

February 16, 2012

Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard professor and liberal Massachusetts Senate candidate who doesn’t know which years the Boston Red Sox won the World Series, raised nearly two-thirds of her campaign funds from outside the state last quarter, the Boston Globe reports.

Elizabeth Warren’s campaign to reclaim a US Senate seat for the Democrats is drawing on deep out-of-state support, with 61.3 percent of her itemized donations coming from beyond Massachusetts’ borders during the last quarter of 2011.

The Cambridge Democrat, who outraised Republican incumbent Scott Brown $5.7 million to $3.2 million in the fourth quarter, received nearly 20 percent of her listed contributions from California and more than 13 percent from residents of the state of New York, according to a Globe analysis of a campaign finance database released yesterday.

By contrast, Brown received about two-thirds of his support from Massachusetts, which accounted for about 66 percent of his itemized donations. The second biggest source of Brown donations Brown was Texas, at 6.4 percent, followed by New York at 6.2 percent.

Published under: Democratic Donors