CUNA Rebuilds Campaign Warchest

WASHINGTON – CUNA reported Friday that its political action committee raise $140,000 last month and spent $64,000, helping it to build its available cash to $235,000. An unusually busy period the month before had depleted the credit unions’ largest campaign PAC to just $160,000 at the end of March. CUNA had build up almost $600,000 in cash at the height of last year’s mid-term congressional elections. CUNA continued last month to cultivate co-sponsors of the CU Regulatory Improvements Act, with $1,000 contributions to recent CURIA signees: Bob Filner, D-Calif., Don Young, R-Alaska, Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md.,Joa Baca, R-Calif., Jon Porter, R-Nev., and Steve Kagan, D-Wis. The biggest contributions last month went to Sen. John Salazar, D-Colo. ($4,000), and to two leadership PACs, Rely on Your Beliefs PAC, for Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and MiLead PAC for Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich.