Barnes brings in $2.7 million for governor comeback bid

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Former Gov. Roy Barnes raised more than $2.7 million in the past six months in his bid to retake the state's top job.

The Barnes campaign filed its campaign finance report with the State Ethics Commission a day ahead of Friday's deadline. Barnes, a Democrat, and Rep. Austin Scott (R-Tifton), a candidate for the GOP nomination, are the only two to have announced their totals by 5 p.m. Thursday. Scott said he has raised $375,000, exceeding his 2009 goal.

The amount Barnes has raised surpasses anything any Republican or Democratic candidate had reported before Thursday. Barnes, who got into the race in July, did not have to file a campaign report until today. Before these filings, Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, a Republican candidate for governor, had raised the most of any candidate in the race, bringing in $1.4 million from April 2008, when he first announced. Oxendine has not yet filed the report due today.

Barnes reported having more than $2.2 million in cash on hand.

Chris Carpenter, Barnes' campaign manager, said more than 65 percent of the people who contributed had never given to Barnes before. He said those contributions totaled about $1.5 million. “We're are happy with where the campaign is,” he said.

http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/barnes-brings-in-2-269668.html

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Go Roy, go!

And as a symbol to your illegal defeat - your first Executive Order should be to DESTROY all Diebold and ES&S electronic machines.

Hawkeye-X

[napi21]

2. I wasn't madly in love with Barnes when he was Gov, but he was

one hell of a lot better than dimwit Perdue!!! Thank God he's gonna be gone! I HOPE Roy runs a great campaign. Maybe we'll get back to some reality in Ga!