Weygand and Licht Tied in Senate Campaign Fundraising (posted August 2, 1999)

House Representative Robert Weygand and former Lieutenant Governor Richard Licht are virtually tied in fundraising for their upcoming face-off in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate race. In official campaign finance reports filed July 30, 1999, Weygand raised $379,089.07, spent $39,814.44, and had $540,169.41 cash on hand, while Licht raised $376,840.00, spent $35,230.82, and had $438,481.12 cash on hand. In addition to the money raised from others, Licht loaned his campaign $100,000 from his personal account.

Among Weygand's contributors include Dennis Roberts, Thomas Hughes, George Graboys, Robert McKenna, Kelly Sheridan, Paul and Charles Fradin, Phil Rivers, Diane Hurley, Eva Mancuso, Dean Holt, Joe Garrahy, Lawrence O'Brien, Thomas Dimeo, Alan Shawn Feinstein, William Farrell, Jonathan Tisch, Russell Boss, Robert McCabe, Richard Bready, Guy Dufault, Mark Mandell, David Preston, Paul Quinn, John Hazen White, Sr., and Alan Solomont as well as a number of labor union political action committees.

Licht's donors include Richard Bready, Jerrold Lavine, John Cicilline, Mary Gilbane, Scott Laurans, Robert Reisman, Kenneth Dulgarian, John Roney, Joe Walsh, John Sasso, Thomas Ryan, Michael Doyle, Bruce Sundlun, Sarah Dowling, Martin Peretz, Richard Oster, William Irons, Joe Paolino, Darrell Ross, Phil Rivers, William Gilbane, Jerry Sansiveri, Brad Faxon, Michael Dukakis, Paul Choquette, Stanley Weiss, Guy Dufault, Steve Grossman, Joe DeAngelis, Melvin Alperin, Norman Orodenker, and Casby Harrison.

On the Republican side, Warwick Mayor Lincoln Chafee raised $61,293.79, spent $11,824.73, and has $49,469.06 in cash on hand. His donors include Fred Lippitt, James Bennett, Heidi Kirk Duffy, Henry and Peggy Sharpe, and Murray Danforth.