Murphy campaign’s victory jar would break newsroom’s bank

Democratic U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy needs to increase the size of his campaign war chest in order to better compete with Republican Linda McMahon’s mostly self-financed second bid for U.S. Senate.

McMahon spent $50 million of the family’s World Wrestling Entertainment fortune on a failed 2010 run.

But while Murphy’s waiting on the large donors to come through, his campaign is encouraging grass roots supporters to continue to do what they can by tossing change in a jar whenever they see one of McMahon’s slick ads on television.

Here in the newsroom we’ve usually got the television tuned to some news program/station and see a lot of those McMahon ads. At that rate none of us could afford Murphy’s challenge.

Brian Lockhart