Dem challenger Piotrowski outraises Labrador in most recent period, but Labrador still has more cash

The latest campaign finance reports are in for 1 ^st District GOP Rep. Raul Labrador and his Democratic challenger, James Piotrowski, who will debate tonight on live TV on Channel 7-2 in Boise, starting at 8 p.m. MT. Surprisingly, the third-term congressman was actually out-raised during the most recent reporting period, which stretched from July 1 to Sept. 30, by Piotrowski, who raised $112,672, to Labrador’s $101,677. However, Labrador had more carried over from earlier periods, and ended the reporting period with $247,093 on hand, to Piotrowski’s $59,974.

Labrador’s biggest contributions during the reporting period were $5,000 each from Intel Corp. and Koch Industries PAC; that brought his Koch Industries donations for the election cycle to date to $10,000. His largest expenditure during the period was $34,000 to Public Opinion Strategies LLC of Alexandria, Va., for political strategy consulting. He also continued to pay his wife, Becca, a $2,022 per month salary from the campaign for bookkeeping.

Piotrowski’s biggest contributions during the period were $5,000 each from the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Political Action Together Political Committee and the Laborers International Union of North America PAC. He also received $3,500 from the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers PAC, for a total of $10,000 from that PAC for the election cycle to date. Piotrowski received a large number of small, individual contributions from attorneys, both inside and outside Idaho. His largest expenditures during the period were $10,500 to Effect Your Cause for fundraising consulting; $7,249 to Lake Research Partners for polling; and $4,508 to Print for Progress in Columbus, Ohio, for printing.