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Much has been made of Steve Stivers recent FEC report, but not much has been written about where Stivers is getting his money. According to Stivers’ report 40% of his donations were from business PACs. In fairness, though, Kilroy accepted a similar ratio from mostly union PACs.
Stivers accepted so much special interest money, though, he likely violated federal campaign finance laws. My understanding is that a PAC can only donate $10,000 and individuals can only donate up to $4,800 to a congressional campaign in a single cycle. Another federal political candidate’s campaign may only donate up to $4,000 a [...]
Full Story... →Jack Torry wrote a column in the Dayton Daily News this weekend asking why “nobody seems to want to give Fisher any money.” Look, Rob Portman is a Bush Republican. That means he knows how to raise special interest money better than any incumbent in Congress (actual fact about Portman’s campaign.) He also had no primary.
Lee had a competitive primary in which he spent a considerable amount of his money. Of course, the first quarterly report after the primary is going to show a big cash-on-hand gap.
But did you know that Fisher’s fundraising more [...]
Full Story... →Notice how Kevin DeWhine, the Columbus Dispatch, John Kasich and his Boy Wonder, the Carpetblogger, have all been trying to make some sinister “criminal sounding” plot out of a public employees union supporting a politician because that politician has been a supporter of the union’s public policy proposals?
Finally, Mark Naymik of the Cleveland Plain Dealer smacks it down:
Federal law says union dues, or general revenue, cannot be given to politicians or political parties, or spent on candidate advertising.
A union’s political action committee — like AFSCME’s — is funded primarily not by dues, but [...]
Full Story... →Jon Keeling (R-VA), is all a flutter over yesterday’s campaign finance report for reasons that escape me.? Both candidates are uncontested in their primaries, so the only figure that really matters is cash on hand as it’s all about building up the biggest warchest you can before the general election starts in earnest.
On that front, Strickland holds an impressively lead:
Strickland Cash On Hand: $7,124,556.11
Kasich: $5,202,298.18
Difference:? $1,922,257.93
Now Keeling wants people to only focus on the fact that Kasich raised a little over $500k more than Strickland, but he ignores that Kasich also SPENT [...]
Full Story... →The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported today that Lee Fisher raised only over $500k this most recent FEC quarter. That’s got to be he worst fundraising quarter so far (granted, it’ll still be more substantially more than Brunner.) We’ve all known that a great deal of that $1.8 million cash-on-hand Fisher reported legally CANNOT be used for the primary (in fact, probably most of it cannot be used.) Is his fundraising well starting to run dry?
Fisher unexpectedly started to run his ad earlier than announced, the PD also reported, with a statewide cable ad buy that will follow [...]
Full Story... →The Associated Press reports that yesterday’s campaign finance reporting indicates that Hamilton County David Pepper’s healthy fundraising indicates that his race is appears to be headed towards victory:
Auditor candidate David Pepper, a Cincinnati Democrat, is muscling out his opponents in the money race as well. The son of a former Procter & Gamble chief executive has $605,000 in the bank, 20 times that of either of his Republican opponents: former county prosecutor David Yost and state Rep. Seth Morgan.
Yost only last week moved into the auditor’s race from the attorney general’s race, leaving former U.S. [...]
Full Story... →From the Columbus Dispatch.
LetOhioVote.org filed their first campaign finance report, but it’s hardly illuminating:
LetOhioVote.org, which is led by three conservative activists, reported that it has raised nearly $1.6 million. All of that money came from a political nonprofit that specializes in polling called New Models, based in a suburban Washington office building.
LetOhioVote.org’s spokesman, Carlo LoParo, said he doesn’t know the ultimate source of the group’s money.
In other words, New Models is being used as a proxy donor to hide the real source of the Blackwell alumni revenge society’s actual money. Nothing like being [...]
Full Story... →Governor Strickland’s re-election campaign just released their numbers: around $6.2 million cash-on-hand (that’s over 50% more than what Kasich reported.)
This is an obscene amount of money on both sides.? Seriously.? In 2006, neither Strickland nor Blackwell even had over half a million on hand.? Governor Strickland’s campaign actually has roughly half on hand of what his 2006 campaign spent during the entire race last cycle.
It’s the most money any candidate for Governor, let alone an incumbent, has ever reported in Ohio history.
But that’s not the only record Strickland’s campaign broke:
“Not only does Strickland’s campaign [...]
Full Story... →In response to Kasich-Taylor announcing that they were reporting they have $4 million on hand, Strickland-Brown Communication Director Lis Smith issued the following statement:
“While we are still compiling our fundraising report, Governor Strickland will have more cash on hand than any incumbent Governor in Ohio history at this point in the campaign. Given Congressman Kasich?s 20 years in Washington,?brief presidential campaign, and 7 years on Wall Street, we?re frankly surprised that he didn?t raise more.?
So what does that mean?? Well, according to the Secretary of State’s office, if Ms. Smith’s statement is true, that means that [...]
Full Story... →John H. McConnell died today.
John’s life is really the classic American story: son of a steel worker, joined the navy, went to college on the G.I. Bill, had a good idea, started a company, got rich and turned into a Republican.
He founded Worthington Industries, help start the Columbus Clippers and the Blue Jackets and, since 1990, has contributed over half-a-million dollars to Ohio’s GOP candidates.
Including…
George Voinovich 56,000 Betty Montgomery 40,250 Ken Blackwell 35,750 Thomas J. Moyer 31,000 Mary Taylor 30,000 Greg Hartmann 20,000 Jon Husted 17,500 Jim Petro 11,250 Steve Stivers 11,000
etc. [...]
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Lessig 08
Lots of videos, I know, but they’re just too good not to share. Lawrence Lessig outlines two new movements in America; Change Congress and Lessig for CA-12… maybe. This really is a fantastic video.
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