Democratic congressional candidate Darcy Burner has raised $1.1 million in her race against Republican Congressman Dave Reichert, R-Auburn. In her filing to the Federal Election Commission due July 15 Burner will report $754,800 cash on hand, according to her campaign manager, Zach Silk. In the three months ending last week Burner raised $581,000.

Silk said there will be some fine-tuning of the numbers before the FEC filing is due. But he's confident any changes will be minor and he's thrilled with the totals. Reichert likely had a good quarter of fundraising, too, including an event headlined by President Bush. (I've just asked Reichert's campaign for numbers too.) In the last reports Reichert showed more than $1.3 million raised while Burner had about $536,000.

With Burner's most lucrative quarter yet, Republicans will have to find a new spin to put on her fund raising success. Last quarter, Burner raised more than Reichert and, according to the King County Journal,
GOP chairwoman Diane Tebelius said, "That's her early money. We'll see what happens after the early money comes in."