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Holly Bailey
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Jul 31, 2007 12:17 PM
Remember all that talk earlier this summer about Fred Thompson raising $5 million in a month? Well, yeah, that didn't happen. Everyone's favorite noncandidate presidential candidate released his first fund-raising numbers today, disclosing that he raised a little less than $3.5 million between June 4 and June 30. Friends of Fred Thompson, the former senator's "testing the waters" committee, listed about $626,000 in expenses, more than a quarter of that going toward Web and media consulting. The report, filed with the Internal Revenue Service (not the Federal Election Commission because Thompson is not officially in the race yet), says the noncampaign campaign spent about $70,000 on salaries, including a single $13,770 payout to Tom Collamore, who resigned as Thompson's campaign manager last week. The most interesting thing about the report:
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