Add Florida Republican Allen West to the list of bomb-throwing political personalities raising cash off their knack for connecting with the country’s most exercised activists.
West, a former Army colonel challenging Democratic Rep. Ron Klein, raised $1.4 million in the second quarter of 2010 – an astonishing number that puts him in the same league as Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, the inflammatory conservative who raked in $1.7 million over the same period, and Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, the caustic liberal cable news fixture who vacuumed up $800,000 in the first three months of 2010.
Republican officials expect West’s haul to be the largest of any non-incumbent GOP candidate for the last three months. It brings his overall fundraising for the cycle to $3.5 million and he ended June with $2.2 million on hand.
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