Ear Infection
ArchPundit
Yeah. Anyway, feeling better, should be posting over the weekend including the rest of the FEC reports (the interesting ones) and the most recent polls.
I Told You So
That was one Marty Bahamonde who testified before Congress yesterday
Bahamonde had just learned, as he huddled in New Orleans’ Superdome with evacuees, that Brown’s press secretary was fretting about blocking out time for the director to eat dinner at one of Baton Rouge’s busy restaurants that night.
“OH MY GOD!!!!!!!” Bahamonde messaged the co-worker. “I just ate an MRE” ? military rations ? “and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome along with 30,000 other close friends so I understand her concern about busy restaurants
I’d done a FOIA request, but apparently that was unnecessary.
He’s also a career civil servant and did his job. He deserves our thanks.
Apparently Tom DeLay is Running Ads for Ronnie Earle’s Reelection
Criticizing Ronnie Earle in Travis County Texas for going after Tom DeLay is sort of like criticizing the Pope in Vatican City for being a Papist.
I wonder if they have to file an in-kind donation form on behalf of Earle for the commercial?
More as they Come in–Expect smaller quarters for most
Between the hurricane and this being a slow quarter, expect the 3rd Quarter numbers to be down overall. Those that needed a quick out of the gate number already did it, and lots of money went to charitable donations this quarter.
Lindy Scott FEC Report D-IL-06
Lindy just entered the race and put up a small, but admittedly first fundraising quarter. I don’t pay much attention to the first fundraising quarter, though he still did show numbers above what many other new candidates do if they aren’t trying to make a splash.
Raised:21509.58
Spent:4523.58
On-Hand: 16986.00
Next quarter will be the telling quarter for him.
O’Malley FEC Report D-IL-06
Raised:11139.44
Spent: 9331.46
On Hand: 18181.36
With about $6000 in debt
Peter dropped out and probably due to mediocre fundraising, but more to the point, what a pain the ass fundraising is and still trying to raise a family and the sort. I do hope we’ll see Peter back in a local race in a couple years or something as he seemed like a good guy.
Mowen FEC Report R-IL-17
Raised:30616.00
Spent:10564.48
On-Hand:43881.23
Looks to be another subpar challenger who will make noise, but not seriously challenge Evans.
Evans FEC Report D-IL-17
Raised:239962.39
Spent:141816.93
On-Hand:178503.88
$80,000 for FEC fine so given that, not a bad quarter. Big PAC contributions from the unions and Obama’s PAC.
The way I’m reading the report, he still has $25,000 he owes the FEC, but I may be wrong on that.
Laesch FEC Report D-IL-14
Small, but just started:
Raised:6303.00
Spent:5440.74
On-Hand: 862.26
In fact, self funded so far, so this is seed money.
McSweeney Report
Okay, I screwed up reporting his last one so let’s see if I can get this right:
Raised: 58372.24
Spent: 296351.07
On-Hand: 239120.32
Debt is high, but that’s too himself and he’s partially self funding.
Donations from both LaHood and Peter Fitzgerald of 1307 Skipworth Road
McLean, Virginia 22101. Both have endorsed him as has Da Coach (who will probably be on the next report).
High spending, but hard to tell how much of that is for later in the primary too–self-funders often spend money upfront.
Overall, nothing spectacular, but since he’s self-funding–who cares?
From the outside, he’s certainly getting the headlines and in a divided primary including Bartels, Churchhill, Salvi and him, all that money and all those headlines count for a lot.