I still don’t see LeMieux coming out of this primary alive, but he is starting to flex his finance muscles, courtesy of Washinton, DC contacts dating back to his time as interim US Senator (courtesy of Charlie Crist, who LeMieux now claims to have never met).

He’s put together a fundraiser with a dozen Senate Republicans. The roll call is impressive, but I’m not so sure that it will actually bring in as much dough as he hopes – a Senator showing up for a fundraiser is a lot different than actually going through one’s rolodex and making calls to the PAC/lobby community on behalf of someone else; take my word for it, I’ve seen plenty of members of Congress drop in on fundraisers I’ve been working on and while it was very generous of them, it rarely brings in a single extra penny.

Nonetheless, check out this invite to a DC fundraiser (hat tip to the St Pete Times):