Joe Biden Comes Back to His Alma Mater. Where is the Money Coming From?

The Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden is expected to headline a campaign rally for U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei on Monday. This will be Joe Biden’s only stop in New York in 2014.  Recent polling has shown that are several democrats  in highly contested battles with Republicans for seats in the State Senate. In the 24^th congressional district race Republican John Katko has a slim lead over Democrat Dan Maffei.  Biden was a graduate from Syracuse University’s law school in 1968 and has decided to help Maffei as he feels that this seat is a must-win for Democrats to control the state senate. Back in 2009, Biden did the same thing as he helped raise campaign money for Rep. Dan Maffei. The campaign rally that is scheduled for Monday is called the "Get Out The Vote rally.” It is free to attend and it will be on television on the Time Warner Cable News Network. The narrow race between the two candidates will host its first televised debate on Monday, October 27^th on the Time Warner Cable News Network.

 

  For the 24^th congressional district race, Syracuse.com created a campaign contributions database where you can find out the names of people and special interest groups that have contributed money towards the campaigns of the two candidates. Rep. Dan Maffei who just finished his second term in the House of Representatives has raised about $2.3 million for his campaign. Around 54 percent of that money came from Political Action Committees that are special interest groups. Rep. John Katko has raised around $726,000 for his campaign. The FEC reports that $98,550 was raised from Political Action Committees that are not in Syracuse.