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Campaign says Harris won't turn to inheritance
The Senate candidate has said for more than a week that she will use the money from her late father.

Jim Stratton | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted March 25, 2006

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-harrismoney2506mar25,0,6705253.story

In an effort to jump-start her sputtering Senate campaign, Rep. Katherine Harris went on national television invoking the memory of her late father and saying the money he left her will form the financial foundation of her challenge to Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson.

Now the Harris campaign says that's not the case. Campaign spokeswoman Morgan Dobbs said Thursday that Harris will sell her existing assets rather than rely on money from her father, a bank executive who died in January.

"It is my understanding from her statements that she does not plan to use inherited money on the campaign -- rather, money from liquidating her personal assets, which she says total $10 million," Dobbs wrote in an e-mail to the Orlando Sentinel.

"I think I am being pretty clear." However, Dobbs' explanation is at odds with the message Harris has been delivering for more than a week.