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$109,000. Weiland said he went into the race knowing he'd likely have to run a campaign on less money than his opponent, and he said he's been busy over the past 10 months meeting voters in each of South Dakota's 311 incorporated towns.
• The quarter's top fundraiser was Bosworth, of Sioux Falls, who pulled the vast majority of the contributions from out-of-state donors. But her campaign fell deeper in debt during the quarter.
• Rounds' FEC report shows he spent $868,000 during the quarter, with more than $500,000 going toward media. Of the $460,000 in itemized individual contributions received, about 60 percent of Rounds' money came from contributors showing out-of-state addresses, and the rest from state residents.
• Rounds also received about $240,000 in funds from political action committees, including about $47,000 from PACs related to the energy industry, nearly $23,000 from banking and financial services groups, $22,000 from agriculture related committees and $14,000 from PACs related to health care.
• The former governor said the money will be used to get his message out and correct any misinformation spread by outside groups.
• "I think we've got the strongest grass-roots effort of all the candidates right now as evidenced by the resources that we've been able to earn from those citizens, both in South Dakota and out of South Dakota," Rounds said.
• Weiland, a Sioux Falls business owner who once served as a staffer for former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle, raised nearly $204,000 during the quarter and spent about half that amount.
• Of the $88,000 in itemized individual contributions, about 59 percent of the money came from residents with the rest from donated by people listing out-of-state addresses. Weiland received $63,250 in funds from political action committees, with nearly $38,000 of that coming from labor union PACs, according to his FEC report.
• The election is less about big money, Weiland said, and more about the individual voters he has met along the South Dakota town tour he completed on April 15 in Hudson.
• "I think this race is going to be competitive not because of the amount of money, but because the kind of campaign I'm running," he said.
• Bosworth's campaign raised more than $772,000 during the first three months of 2014, but she spent $674,000, mostly on direct mail fundraising. Of her $195,000 in itemized contributions, just $3,300 -- 1.7 percent -- came from in-state addresses.
• Bosworth's campaign had $348,000 in cash as of March 31 but owed nearly $542,000, leaving it about $193,000 in the red. About $408,000 of her debt was owed to direct mail marketing companies.

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