Bowles loans campaign $1.8 million!

AP Exclusive: Bowles loans self $1.8 million for U.S. Senate race

GARY D. ROBERTSON

Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. - Democrat Erskine Bowles has loaned his U.S. Senate campaign an additional $1.8 million to light up the television airwaves in his neck-and-neck race with Republican Richard Burr.

The Bowles campaign, which disclosed the new loan to The Associated Press on Monday, said the former White House chief of staff needed the cash influx to run more TV ads in the final days of one of the nation's most expensive congressional races.

Bowles loaned his campaign nearly $7 million in an unsuccessful 2002 Senate bid against Republican Elizabeth Dole. Most of that money has never been repaid.

This time around, he has relied less on his personal fortune, taking only one $767,012 loan in June and another of $790,000 earlier this month. Bowles has worked to hold his own with Burr in fund-raising.
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Personal Note: I sent him $25 and he handwrote a note to me on the letter. Though he been under stady fire, I think Bowles will pull this one out.