Murphy’s law: Chris Murphy pulls in $1 million for Senate bid

A Capitol Hill insider tells Hearst Connecticut Newspapers that U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., raked in $1 million during the first three months of year for his 2012 bid to fill the Senate seat of the retiring Joe Lieberman.

Murphy’s campaign is expected to release its fundraising totals later today, but hinted that it cleaned up on the congressman’s Facebook page.

“We set a goal early on to have 1,000 contributors, and we kind of blew through that,” Kenny Curran, Murphy’s campaign manager, told Hearst.

Curran is holding off revealing the total until this afternoon.

Murphy’s impending announcement comes on the heels of former Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, a fellow Democrat, trumpeting that she had raised more than $500,000 in the first quarter.

Neil Vigdor