Friday, April 4th, 2008...8:47 am
Finance Update
The first quarter is over, so this is the time that the various campaigns spin how wonderful or gawdawful their fundraising was in anticipation of the official numbers that will come out in a few weeks.
According to R-Cubed’s crack research team (yes, they are on crack), the only one to have filed their official report already was Rick Renzi, who, no big suprise, reported no fundraising. He did, however, report $456,073.37 in unpaid obligations, mostly legal bills. We here at R-Cubed will be willing to pay the $.37 to keep the numbers somewhat round. Please shop at our official store to donate to this worthy cause.
The Gabrielle Giffords and Ann Kirkpatrick campaigns are already spinning their numbers. Giffords supporters are reporting that they raised nearly $450,000, and Kirkpatrick partisans are saying their numbers will be around $260,000.
Kris Mayes is still “exploring” (but is she James Cook or is she Pánfilo de Narváez?), but I have to wonder how far behind she will be starting this thing with the delays in her getting underway.
There seem to be two schools of thought about what Tim Bee’s numbers will mean when they are released. One says that anything less that a quarter of a million dollars will be an indication that he won’t be a viable candidate. The other one is that he doesn’t need to raise scads of money, since people don’t expect him to against an incumbent anyway, and groups like Club for Growth will spend money against Giffords regardless (much in the same way as the Defense for Democracies ad a few weeks back).
7 Comments
April 4th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Giffords and Kirkpatrick are bringing in the dough! Kirkpatrick seems to be a strong candidate for CD1. Just checked her website, though, and noticed that she doesn’t have a position on A SINGLE ISSUE posted on the website (Don’t take my word for it– check out http://www.kirkpatrickforarizona.com) and I wonder why that is? Surely this candidate has a better grasp on the issues than to have, er, no comment on anything? All she mentions is that she was born in AZ. I’d like to hear more!
April 4th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Dear Junkie (Does that mean you’re one of Tedski’s crack-addicted researchers):
Ann’s just getting a new site up and running.
You’ll be seeing issues stuff soon.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
$450K in one quarter by Giffords? I am not sure we can go that far! That is an enormous amount in one quarter…I think unprecedented for her and every quarter in which they have raised funds.
I do agree…if Bee hasn’t raised $250K…again…I will be wondering just how enthusiastic his business base really is.
April 6th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Do Gabby’s reported quarterly donations include pledged money or moneys actually received and in the bank including in kind donations?
With such a huge majority of Gabby’s donations coming from special interests, unions and Washington PAC’s I’ve noticed that the term “grass roots” isn’t used much.
April 6th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
No Walt, she’s just reporting pledges in violation of federal law. Also, she’s not reporting the massive donations she got from Robert Mugabe and Hugo Sanchez.
I figured since you are throwing out baseless allegations (as usual), I’d add a few for you.
April 6th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Its terribly funny to hear some from the GOP side of the fence cry foul about raising large sums of money and from lobbyists and PACs. It sucks to get beat at your own game…although the game is a bit different this time.
Both Giffords (and for that matter Obama and Hillary) ..and a host of others are getting strong strong fundraising support from individual contributions below $100…lots and lots of them…and a loyal base that donates again and again.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:17 am
That was my opinion to Tedski as the figures that are quoted to the press by Gabby’s anonymous campaign sources are much higher than those actually reported.
You forgot the usual suspects, Jim Click, Don Diamond, Move On . Org oops sorry wrong suspect.