Bill Daley tops $3M raised in Chicago mayoral race, gets backing from a Kennedy

Bill Daley topped the $3 million mark in fundraising and extended his financial advantage in the Chicago mayoral race Tuesday, thanks to a round of checks that included support from a member of the Kennedy clan.

Daley reported adding $137,714 to his campaign war chest, including a $10,000 contribution from the campaign committee of former U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy II, a Democrat from the famous political family who held a Massachusetts Congressional seat from 1987 until 1999.

Daley also reported a $10,000 contribution from Thomas and Victoria Vallely of Boston. Thomas Vallely is a senior adviser at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. The Massachusetts money came as part of an East Coast fundraising swing that took Daley to Boston and Washington, D.C.

His campaign confirmed he attended a pair of Washington, D.C., fundraisers hosted by veterans of former President Bill Clinton’s White House, where he served as a U.S. commerce secretary. Many of those Clinton veterans and Washington donors did not turn up in the contributions Daley reported Tuesday, a sign that the former banking executive is poised to report more contributions soon.

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