{"id":30266,"date":"2012-07-20T07:33:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T11:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30266"},"modified":"2012-07-20T07:42:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T11:42:39","slug":"the-murphy-mix-up-and-democrat-hedge-fund-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2012\/the-murphy-mix-up-and-democrat-hedge-fund-contributions.html","title":{"rendered":"The Murphy Mix-Up And Democrat Hedge Fund Contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) –\u00a0Democrats Susan Bysiewicz and rival\u00a0Chris Murphy are in a bit of a scuffle over hedge fund contributions, the Hartford Courant reports.<\/p>\n

Bysiewicz ran an add\u00a0accusing Murphy of\u00a0receiving\u00a0around $700,000 in campaign contributions from financial firms, saying he has more “hedge fund money than any other Democrat in Congress.”\u00a0Murphy says his primary rival’s new TV ad is based largely on false claims and hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

The Courant reports:<\/p>\n

Murphy’s campaign spokeswoman said the ad was untrue and hypocritical. What’s more, she said, Bysiewicz’s people got their Murphys mixed up. The top Democratic recipient of hedge fund money in Congress in 2010 was then-Rep. Scott Murphy of New York, not Chris Murphy of Connecticut.<\/p>\n

“We did not confuse the Murphys,” Bysiewicz Campaign Manager Jonathan Ducote shot back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bysiewicz’s campaign manager\u00a0eventually\u00a0conceded in a statement, saying, “Obviously, the research team could have been a little more thorough.”<\/p>\n

According to OpenSecrets.org, in this cycle, Murphy has taken $10,200 from hedge funds and Bysiewicz has taken $6,500, the newspaper reports.\u00a0The two face an Aug. 14 primary.<\/p>\n

Alex Akesson
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New York (HedgeCo.Net) –\u00a0Democrats Susan Bysiewicz and rival\u00a0Chris Murphy are in a bit of a scuffle over hedge fund contributions, the Hartford Courant reports. Bysiewicz ran an add\u00a0accusing Murphy of\u00a0receiving\u00a0around $700,000 in campaign contributions from financial firms, saying he has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,16041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-regulation","category-hedgeco-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30266"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30270,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30266\/revisions\/30270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}