By Antonio D. French
Filed Wednesday, January 18 at 6:15 AM
Jeff Smith, the university professor who nearly beat Russ Carnahan to succeed Dick Gephardt in Congress in 2004, is claiming today to be the clear frontrunner in his campaign for state senate.
Smith's campaign sent out a press release last night boasting of raising over $41,000 in the last three months of 2005. (That figure could not be verified at this time because the state has not yet posted Smith's finance reports, though they are expected to do so very soon.) That would bring Smith's total cash on hand to over $100,000.
Smith's opponents in the race, state representatives Amber Boykins and Yaphett El-Amin, and former state rep. Derio Gambaro, each have reported less than half that amount.
Gambaro, who just announced his candidacy in mid-November, now has $40,000 in the bank, according to his campaign's reports posted online yesterday.
Boykins reported this week just over $44,000 on hand. That amount includes a $15,000 loan the candidate made to her campaign last year.
El-Amin's campaign reports have also not yet been posted.
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