Melissa Gilbert depends Hollywood A-listers among donors
Melissa Gilbert in Jan 2014. (Rob Kim, Getty Images)
A small some-more than a month and a half into her first-ever congressional campaign, Little House on a Prairiehas lifted some-more than $200,000
Gilbert, who in mid-August announced her run
Alec Baldwin gave $1,000; Jennifer Garner, Rosie O’Donnell and Kiefer Sutherland donated $5,400 apiece. Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg contributed $2,700, and John Slattery of Mad Men
And that’s usually a start of a list that includes other Hollywood luminaries from Seth Green, Juliette Lewis and Melissa Rivers to Florence Henderson of The Brady BunchMarried … With Children
That’s not to contend that Gilbert did improved than Bishop for a July-September stating period, however — the first-term congressman out-raised her, hardly — or to advise that she didn’t have a large series of contributions from Michigan, which appeared to be listed in her financial report. (The FEC has not nonetheless supposing for hers or Bishop’s quarterly contributions to be tallied electronically by state.)
But it did advise that Gilbert, a writer, executive and writer who is best famous for her description of Laura Ingalls Wilder in NBC’s Little House
Gilbert, who also is a renouned former boss of a Screen Actors Guild, changed to a district in 2013 with her husband, actor Timothy Busfield.
Bishop, a former infancy personality in a Michigan state Senate who transposed former congressman Mike Rogers this year, lifted scarcely $214,000 in a three-month duration finale Sept. 30, according to his news with a Federal Election Commission.
Of that, some-more than $146,000 came from domestic movement committees, most of it from attention groups and congressional care PACs, including those led by House Speaker John Boehner, House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan and Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton.
While Bishop usually did a bit improved fundraising than Gilbert in a quarter, he had much some-more pillow to start with: His take in a July-September entertain lifted his sum profits this choosing cycle to scarcely $530,000 and, as of Sept. 30, he had scarcely $400,000 in money on hand.
Gilbert had distant reduction — $183,000 — on palm during a finish of a stating period, though given that she had collected usually $27,000 from PACs — $10,000 of that from New York U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s care PAC — and that she did it in about seven weeks’ time suggests that she has copiousness of room to grow her fundraising efforts in Democratic circles.
Spangler reports for a Detroit Free Press.
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