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The Blog for Sunday, October 30, 2005

Perhaps the Most Embarrasing Congressman ...

    in the State of Florida will have a viable challenge:
    Few members of Congress have districts better drawn to suit them than Feeney. (Feeney, after all, helped draw it back when he was speaker of the Florida House.)

    So, he's popular with his constituents. And conventional wisdom suggests this vocal and unabashed conservative has a lock on his heavily Republican seat focused on Seminole and Volusia counties.

    That said, Winter Park veterinarian Andy Michaud is determined to give Feeney a run for his money -- and has plopped about $110,000 of his own money into the campaign. "We want to make sure that people know I'm serious about this," Michaud said recently. "People are ready for a change."

    Feeney, however, has a well-stocked war chest -- more than $500,000, with much of that coming from special interests far away from Central Florida. (Of the first 20 donations listed on his most recent report, for example, only two even came from Florida -- and one of those was the PAC for Bacardi rum.)

    And the money is still pouring in. Just last week, Feeney hosted a fundraiser in his proud-to-be-shabby apartment that had D.C. buzzing. Staffers say the event -- which offered $500 donors all the Oreos, squirt cheese, Budweiser and Diet Coke they could handle -- took in an additional $20,000.
    Scott Maxwell.

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