Friday, October 19, 2012
9:49 AM
FEC reports detail Hovde, Neumann's individual contributions to campaigns
While the Federal Election Commission website hasn't posted October quarterly reports for Tammy Baldwin or Tommy Thompson as of Friday morning, the reports for GOP runners-up Eric Hovde and Mark Neumann show the final amounts each candidate put into their own campaigns.
Hovde, a hedge fund manager and community banker from Madison, put a total of $5.8 million of his own money into his campaign. He put another $700,000 into the campaign coffers in the last few weeks of the campaign. He also put in another $15,000 in mid-September to leave the campaign with a positive cash on hand balance of $9,632. He also loaned the campaign $250,000.
Neumann, the former Congressman from Nashotah, loaned his campaign a total of $824,725 over the full course of the campaign. Neumann loaned $584,000 of that amount in the last quarter, most of it coming after the GOP primary to settle outstanding costs. Neumann sent out an e-mail in late September to supporters asking them to help pay off remaining campaign costs of $152,000
-- By Jason Smathers
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