Peter Schiff

The first week of Rand Paul’s campaign for a U.S. Senate seat from Kentucky has drawn the sort of coverage most first-time candidates wouldn’t dream of.

[UPDATE: I misunderstood the parameters of this fundraiser, and over-stated how much was raised. It's been corrected.]
Peter Schiff, the libertarian economist and investor who’s launched a dark-horse bid for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), is raking in cash from a Ron Paul-endorsed, 2007-style “moneybomb.” As of 3:30, Schiff supporters [...]

The controversial Austrian School economist, who won Internet fame for a video of his many predictions of a housing bubble burst, is strongly considering a Senate run in Connecticut. The draft site is here.
Schiff would be disrupting the plans of Rob Simmons, a Republican congressman from 2001 to 2007 who is already running against Sen. [...]