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Article: Political newcomer Khazei raises $1.1m ; Candidate shows early strength
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2009
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City Year cofounder Alan Khazei, a newcomer to Massachusetts
politics trying to build a political infrastructure from scratch,
has already raised $1.1 million in his bid for the Democratic Senate
nomination, demonstrating just a week into his campaign that he may
be a formidable fund-raiser in the abbreviated race.
Pagliuca stresses his outsider credentials. B1.
The quick windfall indicates that the lesser-known Khazei may
have ample resources to compete with more established competitors
such as Attorney General Martha Coakley, who said yesterday that she
had raised more than $2.1 million in the first month of her
campaign.
"I was gratified last week with the nice things people said . . . ...