At Least 55% of Individual Donations to Lingle Came From Outside Hawaii

Chad Blair/Civil Beat

WASHINGTON — The majority of donors who gave more than $200 apiece to Linda Lingle in the first quarter of her U.S. Senate campaign live outside Hawaii, according to a Civil Beat analysis of her campaign finance report.

The GOP U.S. Senate candidate got at least 55 percent¹ of her total individual donations from out-of-state, Civil Beat found.

Yet Hawaii donors still gave Lingle more money than any other single state.

The report Lingle's campaign filed with the Federal Election Commission reveals that residents from 32 states — plus the District of Columbia and even London, England — contributed a whopping $1.5 million to the Lingle campaign last quarter. (Overall, she took in nearly $1.8 million, with about $266,000 coming from political action committees.)

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