$6,700 Each
February 8, 2010 - by
Last week a chill just stole out of the State Board of Elections and settled over the Republicans in the State House – Democrat Leader Joe Hackney filed his campaign’s financial report. And he has a healthy $418,000 in the bank – while Republican Leader Skip Stam has just $13,000.
Representative Stam made the best he could of a bad situation. “We’re on track,” he said, adding that rather than asking people to give to his campaign fund he’s urging them to give to another special fund to elect Republicans. He may mean the NCGOP’s House Republican Campaign Fund. It has $54,000 in the bank. Its Democratic counterpart has $152,000.
Up to now House Republicans have been pretty hopeful about the upcoming elections – but in politics dollar bills are the equivalent of soldiers. And Hackney and the House Democrats have 570,000 of them. While the Republicans have 67,000. Even General Lee couldn’t whip those odds.
This adds up to a tough picture for Republicans: Winning ten Democratic House seats (to take control of the House) with only $6,700 to spend on each election is going to be well-nigh impossible.
Democrats have given us the Easley scandal, the Tony Rand hustle, the Marc Basnight pier, a trillion dollar deficit and 11% Unemployment – but they’ve gotten one thing right: Money.
Funding a campaign is the hardest work in politics. A successful candidate spends a good part of his life asking for money – Jesse Helms served in the Senate 30 years and just about every day he asked someone for money. House Republicans don’t need any more issues but they do need cold hard cash. So, here’s a question for the Republicans in the House: Who did you ask for money today?
$6,700 Each
February 8, 2010/
Last week a chill just stole out of the State Board of Elections and settled over the Republicans in the State House – Democrat Leader Joe Hackney filed his campaign’s financial report. And he has a healthy $418,000 in the bank – while Republican Leader Skip Stam has just $13,000.
Representative Stam made the best he could of a bad situation. “We’re on track,” he said, adding that rather than asking people to give to his campaign fund he’s urging them to give to another special fund to elect Republicans. He may mean the NCGOP’s House Republican Campaign Fund. It has $54,000 in the bank. Its Democratic counterpart has $152,000.
Up to now House Republicans have been pretty hopeful about the upcoming elections – but in politics dollar bills are the equivalent of soldiers. And Hackney and the House Democrats have 570,000 of them. While the Republicans have 67,000. Even General Lee couldn’t whip those odds.
This adds up to a tough picture for Republicans: Winning ten Democratic House seats (to take control of the House) with only $6,700 to spend on each election is going to be well-nigh impossible.
Democrats have given us the Easley scandal, the Tony Rand hustle, the Marc Basnight pier, a trillion dollar deficit and 11% Unemployment – but they’ve gotten one thing right: Money.
Funding a campaign is the hardest work in politics. A successful candidate spends a good part of his life asking for money – Jesse Helms served in the Senate 30 years and just about every day he asked someone for money. House Republicans don’t need any more issues but they do need cold hard cash. So, here’s a question for the Republicans in the House: Who did you ask for money today?