{"id":639206,"date":"2010-01-21T11:17:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.70058"},"modified":"2010-01-21T11:25:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T16:25:02","slug":"icymi-schiffs-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/639206","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Schiff&#8217;s money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican&nbsp;U.S. Senate&nbsp;candidate Peter Schiff is worth millions of dollars, but unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linda2010.com\/\">one of his rivals,<\/a> he does not intend to finance the bulk of his campaign. Schiff, a broker, author and financial pundit from Weston, says he has raised a total of close to $1.6 million, almost all of it in small donations from individuals. About $300,000 came in the past month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t mind spending some of my own money on the campaign but I&#8217;m running for a cause and I shouldn&#8217;t be paying for it all myself,&#8221; Schiff said. <\/p>\n<p>Schiff earned a salary of $17 million and reported dividends, interest and capital gains of at least $1.4 million over a 23-month period ending in mid-December, according to financial disclosure forms filed in connection with his run. Not listed among his assets is the Weston home he bought in December for $2.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff&#8217;s wealth, while considerable, is overshadowed by the vast fortune of former&nbsp;World Wrestling Entertainment CEO and fellow Republican Linda McMahon, who has said she would spend up to $50 million to fund her own Senate bid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/politics\/hc-schiff-finances-0121.artjan21,0,1763929.story\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican&nbsp;U.S. Senate&nbsp;candidate Peter Schiff is worth millions of dollars, but unlike one of his rivals, he does not intend to finance the bulk of his campaign. Schiff, a broker, author and financial pundit from Weston, says he has raised a total of close to $1.6 million, almost all of it in small donations from individuals. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GhM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}