UPDATE, 3:20 p.m.: GAH. So it looks like the main FEC campaign finance disclosure page for the Second Congressional District updated Lawson’s numbers today, but not those of the other candidates. Hence the (apparent) big jump in her numbers.

Here’s the real deal: Huffman still leads in fundraising, with $864,000 collected. Lawson is second with $740,000. Solomon is third, with $526,000. Huffman has a massive $562,000 still in the bank; Lawson has a still-impressive $450,000.

So matters relating to those things in the story below — which is preserved here for posterity — are incorrect.

The LoCO regrets the error, but still blames the FEC because of its weird website-updating practices.

Meanwhile, please note that Kym has unearthed the anti-Lawson black ops Twitter feed.

Six months ago she was an also-ran at best, but the Federal Elections Commission reports that Stacey Lawson, a business executive who moved into California’s new Second Congressional District only recently, is now at the head of the pack when it comes to campaign fundraising.

With the most recent round of campaign finance reports in, Lawson’s campaign reports having raised $740,000 to date — well ahead of presumed frontrunner Jared Huffman, who has taken in only $586,000. Activist Norman Solomon is at a distant third, with $311,000 raised.

We’ll dive deeply into the particulars soon, but there’s a few interesting surface notes, here. One: Republican candidate Dan Roberts has now loaned his own campaign roughly $160,000 in an effort to make it past the June election. With California’s open primary rules in effect, the top Republican is no longer guaranteed a ticket to November. Roberts is apparently shelling out big in order to prevent an increasingly likely Dem-on-Dem general election.

Two: Lawson has raised, but so has she spent. Huffman and Lawson have just about the same amount of cash in the bank at the moment — $450,000, give or take — which should mean that our televisions are going to be swamped with dueling ads in the run-up to the June primary election.

But the Stacey Surge is making some people nervous. It seems someone — who knows who? — has turned to black ops in an effort slow Lawson. Presumably most everyone has seen the SF Chron article over the weekend that detailed Lawson’s horrid voting record — she managed to get herself to the polls in only four of the last 12 elections — but that didn’t stop a dirt merchant named “whoisstaceylawson@gmail.com” from blasting the link out to area media this morning, with an implicit promise of more to follow.