Barr beats Chandler in third quarter fund-raising
| For the second consecutive quarter, Republican challenger Andy Barr outpaced U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler, D-Versailles, in campaign fund-raising, although Chandler still has $1.3 million on hand to spend between now and the Nov. 2 election.
On Wednesday, the Barr campaign said it raised more than $486,000 from July 1 to Sept. 30. The Chandler campaign said it raised more than $458,000 in that same period. Barr campaign manager John Connell said he was traveling Wednesday night and did not have Barr’s cash-on-hand information with him. The third-quarter 2010 campaign-finance reports are due Friday at the Federal Election Commission in Washington. In addition to the campaigns, several outside groups are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on advertising for Barr and Chandler on Lexington television stations. Barr, a Lexington lawyer, will face the four-term Chandler at 8 p.m. Monday on Kentucky Tonight, broadcast statewide on Kentucky Educational Television. That will be their first and possibly only public meeting of the campaign. |