Maggie Money Bags
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- July
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Monroe County Maggie Brooks continues to rake in the dough for, um, a third term in 2011?
She ranked 12th in the state in terms of money raised during the first quarter, according to a review of campaign finance reports by NYPIRG. She outraised Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority leader Joseph Bruno, for instance.
NYPIRG’s list doesn’t include Gov. David Paterson’s $3.2 million in contributions, so maybe Brooks is 13th. But she raised an impressive $516,139 for the first six months of the year, in large part to the annual spring gala that the Republican county executive hosts.
That ranks her second among county executives in the state. Only omnipresent Democratic Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi raised more, a whooping $1,276,587. That certainly fuels the flames of another gubernatorial run for Suozzi down the road, and of course it’s nice when you can have Bill Clinton at your golf fundraisers.
But Brooks ended with $353,926 in her campaign coffers, doling out $102,000 to pay for her fundraiser at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center in March and another $45,937 in salary to former county GOP boss Steve Minarik, who she has paid his salary through her campaign account for years.
She also doled out about $12,000 to Arena Communications, a direct mail firm out of Salt Lake City, Utah, which I haven’t seen her use before. Brooks’ aides said it was for the virtual town hall meetings.
The powerful law firm Harris Beach gave her $12,000 through its PAC, Sen. James Alesi contributed $10,000, as did former Irondequoit Mall owner Adam Bersin and Frumas Enterprise LLC, a developer in Brooks’ hometown of Webster.
You can view her whole filing here.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
