{"id":2645,"date":"2016-10-18T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/miller-reports-nearly-280k-on-hand-for-senate-bid\/"},"modified":"2016-10-18T08:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:00:25","slug":"miller-reports-nearly-280k-on-hand-for-senate-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/miller-reports-nearly-280k-on-hand-for-senate-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Miller reports nearly $280K on hand for Senate bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller has reported raising nearly $200,000 for his campaign during the latest fundraising period.<\/p>\n<p>Miller ended September with nearly $280,000 on hand. He entered the race with nearly $100,000 available, money left over from a prior run.<\/p>\n<p>While the reporting period spans from July through September, Miller\u2019s campaign says his haul dates to early last month, when he entered the race as a last-minute replacement on the Libertarian ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Miller spokesman Randy DeSoto says the Federal Election Commission filing will be amended to account for at least $7,000 in in-kind contributions. He says examples of such contributions include airline miles and tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Miller is one of three main challengers to Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who reported raising about $415,000 between July 28 and Sept. 30, and ending the period with about $1.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Independent Margaret Stock and Democrat Ray Metcalfe haven\u2019t released their fundraising numbers yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller has reported raising nearly $200,000 for his campaign during the latest fundraising period. Miller ended September with nearly $280,000 on hand. He entered the race with nearly $100,000 available, money left over from a prior run. While the reporting period spans from July through September, Miller\u2019s campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}