Weston WampWeston Wamp said he raised $175,133 in the year’s first political fundraising quarter, potentially narrowing the vast financial distance between him and U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann.
The 25-year-old Republican son of former U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp announced his three-month haul two weeks before the government’s deadline for submitting a campaign finance disclosure in the 3rd Congressional District race.
But an adviser for Fleischmann, the elder Wamp’s successor and a first-term Republican, said the congressman raised about $200,000 between Jan. 1 and March 31 and counted at least $750,000 after first-quarter expenses. Wamp’s after-expenses total was $436,080, his aides said.
Wamp likely gained little, if any, ground since the previous fundraising quarter, which ended Dec. 31. Back then, Wamp finished $332,000 behind Fleischmann after expenses. The new spread is likely to be about the same.
Meanwhile, Fleischmann’s other well-known Republican challenger, Mayfield Dairy President Scottie Mayfield, declined to release his fundraising totals early.