By Jesse Liebman -- February
19, 2010
Senator Scott Brown has raised an astounding $14.2 million this year and had $6 million left over from his campaign as of the start of February.
The left over funds vaults Brown into position for a well-funded re-election campaign in 2012.
Brown's campaign finance report, filed Thursday, spans a period that includes the final three weeks of the special election campaign and the weeks following Brown's upset of Democrat Martha Coakley.
As he zeroed in on Coakley in the last weeks of the campaign, money flooded in from across the country in support of Brown, who had been considered a long shot.
Of the nearly 2.5 million Brown collected from big money donors between Jan. 1 and the special election on Jan. 19, $2.1 million was collected during the final week - after polls began to show the race was far closer than anticipated.
Brown's campaign said the average contribution was $86. He received more than 164,400 contributions.
