Rick Santorum's $1.52 million debt is down from $1.69 million. Santorum campaign still in debt

Rick Santorum’s defunct Republican presidential campaign remains deep in debt, having in July only paid off a small fraction of the money it owes nearly 20 creditors, new federal disclosure documents show.

Media consulting firm Brabender Cox, online advertising firm Emotive and database management firm CMDI are all owed six-figure amounts, Santorum’s reports indicate.


The campaign’s $1.52 million in debt is down from the $1.69 million it owed at the end of June, but it could take months or years to pay it all off, the campaign has previously acknowledged.

Several hundred individuals made about $66,000 in reportable contributions to Santorum’s campaign, and the committee also earned about $200,000 from a travel cost reimbursement and nearly $15,000 from renting lists of its supporters. It reported $322,444 cash on hand through July 31.

Dire as Santorum’s financial situation may be, it comes nowhere close to that of fellow GOP also-ran Newt Gingrich. The former House speaker was saddled with more than $4.85 million in debt through June, according to federal records.