Hillary In N.Y. State Of Cash

She's been criticized as a carpetbagger who never lived in New York before, but Hillary Rodham Clinton has gotten a higher percentage of her itemized Senate campaign donations from New Yorkers this year than rival Rudy Giuliani, according to a newspaper report Monday.

The Albany Times Union analyzed campaign finance reports filed during the first three months of this year and found Democrat Clinton received 51 percent of her itemized donations of $200 or more from New Yorkers. The Republican New York City mayor received 31 percent of those donations from New Yorkers.

Senate candidates must itemize donations of $200 or more on their campaign filings. The records provide the donor's address.

Giuliani campaign manager Bruce Teitelbaum said the analysis was fundamentally flawed. He noted that an analysis of last year's fund-raising by the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics found 56 percent of the first lady's contributions came from outside New York, while 44 percent of the mayor's donations were from non-New Yorkers.

Teitelbaum also said the mayor's fund-raising effort early this year concentrated on direct-mail appeals that tended to focus on non-New Yorkers.

The Clinton campaign used the analysis to hammer home the idea the first lady is spending more time on the campaign trail talking about Senate issues than Giuliani is.

"It reflects the fact that Hillary has been extensively traveling all across the state, running a positive campaign telling New Yorkers what she would do in the Senate," Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said. "Maybe if Rudy went upstate more he might get more support up there."

Since the two began raising money for the race last year, Giuliani has collected $19.3 million, while Clinton has raised $12.8 million. Experts project it will become the most expensive Senate race in the nation's history.