WILMINGTON---      State Senator Colin Bonini showed a wide fundraising advantage over two Democratic opponents in the 2010 race for Delaware State Treasurer. The candidates year-end contribution reports were filed yesterday.

Bonini announced his campaign had raised over $129,000 from individual contributors since September and that he ended the year with almost $100,000 cash-on-hand. By contrast, incumbent State Treasurer Velda Jones-Potter raised just $13,000, while Jones-Potter’s opponent in the Democratic primary, Chip Flowers, raised just $31,000. Jones-Potter and Flowers both made significant personal contributions to their campaigns to remain competitive in the fundraising reports.

“I believe that the number of individual contributors to my campaign, which far outpaces my opponents’, shows a depth and breadth to my effort,” Senator Bonini said. “My opponents have both lent themselves significant sums of money, but you can’t run state government on a credit card and you can’t run a campaign that way either.”

“I’m grateful for the support I’ve received from Delawareans up and down the state who agree with me that Delaware’s spending problem needs to be solved,” Bonini said. “It’s time to bring some common-sense back into our state’s fiscal management. As Delaware’s next State Treasurer, that’s exactly what I intend to do.”