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NOVEMBER 01, 2006

Crist's 'Grand' Finale

Through last week, Charlie Crist collected $18,843,273.81 in hard-dollar campaign contributions. He has received another $3.2-million in in-kind donations. Most of that is from the Republican Party of Florida.

That does not include the party's expenditures on his behalf for TV ads. Nor does it include the soft money raised by a series of third-party committees supporting Crist. The Republican nominee for governor will wrap up his record-setting fund-raising pace with one final event Thursday night at Signature Grand, a huge banquet hall in Davie. (For candidates, the contribution deadline is midnight Thursday).

   

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