Alexander Makes His Last Stand: Rooney Raising Cash in the 7th District
By Kyle Melinn
Lansing City Post
January 20, 2010
Super conservative Tim Walberg may not have a clear shot at capturing the Republican nomination in the 7th Congressional District this year, after all.
Iraq veteran Brian Rooney, of the same family that owns football´s Pittsburgh Steelers, announced last week he raised $215,000 in the fourth quarter of 2009, which is almost exactly the same amount of money Walberg raised in his first full quarter of fundraising last year.
Rooney, recruited by the National Republican Campaign Committee to take out freshman Rep. Mark Schauer, D-Battle Creek, is already combatting claims from Walberg that he´s a carpetbagger, to which Rooney has responded, "Michigan´s economy is not suffering because people are moving into the state. It´s suffering because people are moving out."
Schauer beat Walberg in 2008 to earn a seat in Congress. The 7th Congressional District, made up of Eaton County and points south, has had four different men represent it in Congress each of the last four terms.
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