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Article: Arizona Senate President Tim Bee nets $134K for exploratory bid
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- Arizona Capitol Times
- Article date:
- October 19, 2007
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During the third quarter of this year, Senate President Tim Bee
nearly doubled the amount he had raised in his 2006 re-election
campaign to the Legislature, prompting state Democrats to complain
that he took in more than he needs to explore a run in the 8th
Congressional District.
Bee said in a wrtten statement he is "confident that we'll do
even better next quarter."
The Tim Bee Exploratory Committee has so far raised $134,620,
Federal Election Commission records showed.
"This is a great way to kick-off our committee's fundraising
work," Bee said in the statement. "I'm the first to admit that we
have a long way to go before determining whether a campaign for
Congress would be viable, but ...