Recchia raises more than $400,000 in first 5 weeks
Councilman Domenic Recchia Jr., a Democrat who is hoping to unseat incumbent US Rep. Michael Grimm (R-C-Brooklyn-Staten Island) in the 2014 election, said his campaign fundraising has gotten off to a fast and furious start. The Recchia campaign announced that it raised over $410,000 in just the first five weeks since he announced his intention to run. Recchia said he has roughly $407,000 cash on hand.
That works out to roughly $82,400 per week and roughly $12,118 per day, campaign officials said.
All of the contributions came from individual donors making Recchia’s first quarter a record-breaker, according to a campaign spokeswoman. No other candidate in the district’s history has raised as much from individuals in a single quarter let alone in just five weeks, the spokeswoman said.