Posted by Michael Allegretti, the candidate hoping to take on Democratic Staten Island Rep. Mike McMahon in the general election, has his work cut out for him in his own GOP primary – his fundraising last quarter was just over a third of his rival’s.
Allegretti, who has been seen as the favored candidate by the National Republian Congressional Committee, raised about $118,000 in the final quarter of 2009, his campaign said today.
That pales in comparison to the $310,000 his GOP rival, former FBI agent Michael Grimm, says he took in during the same quarter. And Grimm didn’t even begin fundraising until November.
