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1Q House Fundraising Reports Roundup

by: James L.

Thu May 06, 2010 at 11:01 AM EDT


At long last, we've compiled all the House fundraising numbers you need to know from the FEC database for the first quarter of 2010. (Note, as always, that these numbers are in thousands.)

A few quick notes:

  • Democratic challengers who out-raised Republican incumbents: Stephen Raby (AL-05), Ami Bera (CA-03), Cedric Richmond (LA-02), and Tommy Sowers (MO-08).

  • Republican challengers who out-raised Democratic incumbents: Jonathan Paton (AZ-08), David Harmer (CA-11), Allen West (FL-22), Andy Harris (MD-01), Steven Palazzo (MS-04), Jeff Miller (NC-11), Rich Ashooh (NH-01), Frank Guinta (NH-01), Scott Sipprelle (NJ-12), Steve Pearce (NM-02), Matt Doheny (NY-23), Richard Hanna (NY-24), Steve Stivers (OH-15), and Scott Rigell (VA-02).

  • Democratic challengers with more cash-on-hand than Republican incumbents: Ami Bera (CA-03), Tom Hayhurst (IN-03), Doug Pike (PA-06), John Callahan (PA-15), and Suzan Delbene (WA-08).

  • Republican challengers with more cash-on-hand than Democratic incumbents: Randy Altschuler (NY-01), Nan Hayworth (NY-19), Matt Doheny (NY-23), Tom Ganley (OH-13), and David McKinley (WV-01).

  • The Swing State Project Award in Recognition of Unparalleled Political Malpractice for 2010 ("The Hostettler"): This quarter's winner is none other than Larry Kissell (NC-08), for the absolutely pathetic first quarter haul of $72 grand. As a frosh incumbent holding a vulnerable seat, you almost have to try in order to raise that little. That's positively John Hostettler-esque.
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Respectfully
I think there should be more than one category in the SSP John Hostettler Memorial* Political Horserace Awards, or the Hossies.

For each quarter, there should be one for freshmen (Kissell, obvs). One for challengers (this one should probably be for highly-touted challengers who fall short, since there are often so many total losers/nonentities in this category). One for long-time incumbents who are now just phoning it in. Et cetera. Just a thought.

*he's not dead, but his political career is!

Kansan by birth, Californian by choice, and Gay by the grace of God.

That's a great idea
Maybe we'll do something like that in the future!
[ Parent ]
We've got to have an award for names.
Terbolizard and Mumpower, for example.  And Elwyn Tinklenberg.  And Eric Christ (GA State Senate candidate).  

Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.
[ Parent ]
The Mike Sodrel Award for Rematches
Love it, the candidate that fails the worst in a rematch. Hoping Andy Harris wins it.  
[ Parent ]
I would not put any money on that idea.
n/t
[ Parent ]
I meant in regards to Harris epically failing
n/t
[ Parent ]
The Doug Hoffman Spoiler Award
n/t

20, CD MA-03/NH-01/MA-08
[ Parent ]
And of course
the Susan Bitter Smith Award for hilariously destructive attack ads on same-party opponents.  I've only given that out once so far this cycle, to Doug Pike.  I almost gave it to Bob Thomas a couple of weeks ago for this comment:

"When he [Rep. Mark Souder] says I'm trying to buy this seat, well the fact is, he's already sold it... to special interests groups in Washington D.C.," said Thomas.

It made me lol, but not quite enough for a Bitter Smith.  So I'm still searching for the second recipient of that award.

The Crolian Progressive: as great an adventure as ever I heard of...

[ Parent ]
What did Bitter-smith do last time
to Schweikopf?
[ Parent ]
Schweikert
Last time, she just drained his entire cash haul by jumping into the race two months before the primary and flooding the zone with misleading attack ads covering up her background as a lobbyist.

The award isn't for that performance -- it's for what she did when she ran for the open seat in AZ-01 in 2000.  She attempted to torpedo the entire multi-candidate Republican field by feeding lies about one candidate to another candidate and then claiming it was the second candidate's idea, and feigning innocence.

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[ Parent ]
A WTF? Award
For just bazarre actions, ads, or quotes.  Eg:

1) the Demon Sheep ad
2) the Ox ad
3) bartering using chickens
4) repeal the 17th amendment
5) Dennis Kucinich's alien encounter

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[ Parent ]
Add this for the 2006 WTF award

[ Parent ]
Speaking of Wisconsin WTF ads.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

20, CD MA-03/NH-01/MA-08
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Mumpower (n):
the benefit accrued to a candidate's political campaign by that candidate's restraint with his or her words.

Fiorina's Senate campaign has been damaged by a lack of Mumpower.

21, dude, RI-01 (registered) IL-01 (college)
please help Japan. click "donate funds" in upper right and then "Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami." http://www.redcross.org/

[ Parent ]
No, the Tinklenberg award is for
receiving a lot of money then not knowing what to do with it.

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01
[ Parent ]
or
receiving a lot of money and not having enough time to spend it all...

21, dude, RI-01 (registered) IL-01 (college)
please help Japan. click "donate funds" in upper right and then "Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami." http://www.redcross.org/
[ Parent ]
I have a question...
Are these numbers in the thousands or did people really raise totals like $28?
They're in the 1000's
although John Ensign raised $50 this quarter, but he's not on this list.

34, WM, Democrat, FL-11
[ Parent ]
Thx
Thanks for answering that. I ave always wondered that...
[ Parent ]
Honorable Mention
to Kissell is Gene Taylor, who raised a whopping $40K, although his seat is probably less competitive.

34, WM, Democrat, FL-11
You'd think he'd be a litle more worried
about the massive oil spill threatening to damage his districts ecosystem and hurt its tourism industry. But he went out and toured it and said it was no big deal and that the oil was just like chocolate. He's really not a Dem I care for a whole lot.  
[ Parent ]
the quarter ended before the spill. nt

[ Parent ]
I know that
my comment had nothing to do with the spill.
[ Parent ]
he voted to impeach clinton


34, WM, Democrat, FL-11
[ Parent ]
probably b/c he is in the 21st most Republican district
n/t
[ Parent ]
Kissell is our Hostettler
An inept blue collar guy who suddenly finds himself in Congress. The spectacular duo of DCCC recruiting failures in this district saddled us with him. Here's a guy that ran as a populist progressive, had extensive netroots backers, and then turns around and votes against healthcare reform.

I'm actually starting to worry less about some of the perceived top targets for Republicans and more about some sleeper races. Robert Hurt seems to just be failing in VA-05, fundraising-wise and in terms of getting the local conservatives behind him while Pierrello is running a very good campaign.

Raj Goyle continues to dominate over in Kansas, maybe he has some chance in hell at pulling this off by simply outspending the winner of a divided Republican primary 5:1 in the general.

But for instance, I'm worried about Ron Klein. He represents a very marginal district; its pretty much jammed at 52% for Democrats because Republicans put every non-Cuban conservative voter in South Florida in it. Klein ignored West last time around and only got 55% of the vote. This time the environment is better, seniors are worried about medicare, and West has a lot more money. Klein can't take this race for granted.

Betty Sutton too, I worry about. Because she represents a blue collar district that is not overwhelmingly Democratic, Obama got less than 60% of the vote there and there could be a lot of dissatisfaction in districts like this. Ganley has enough money to sink her and she doesn't seem to be raising anything, or to have raised anything over the last 3 years of non-competition. What kind of lousy politician doesn't keep back money around? She is such a poor fundraiser.

Carol Shea-Porter too, you'd think she'd be raising more, but her specialty is her grassroots base and personal charm, which she has had an additional two years to sort of continue developing in Manchester, so I'm not too worried, she's tended to outperform her poll position on general election day by a significant margin, and right now she's pretty much been tied in all the legitimate polls.

Simply monstrous haul for Paton, too bad Giffords has an enormous warchest.

I was going to ask, can we get one of these for like Senate races too?  

Paton should have run last cycle
He is the best possible GOP candidate in this district, and would have done decently well in 2008...or 2006 when it was an open seat, but he couldn't run then because he was deployed in Iraq.

In 2008 he had to wait his turn because the State Senate Majority Leader wanted to run.  Too bad for the GOP that the Maj. Leader was incompetent.  Now they've got Paton, but Giffords is so entrenched it'll be hard to dislodge her.

The Crolian Progressive: as great an adventure as ever I heard of...

[ Parent ]
I wouldn't fret about Klein as much
Adam West is a wingnut, he is running on a hard pro-life and pro-2nd amendment stance in a rather upscale, urban district. He is way too conservative for the district. If he does happen to win, he won't be there very long.  
[ Parent ]
Allen West
not the Batman actor/mayor of Quahog, RI. :)

21, dude, RI-01 (registered) IL-01 (college)
please help Japan. click "donate funds" in upper right and then "Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami." http://www.redcross.org/
[ Parent ]
LOL
Sorry about that
[ Parent ]
Adam West would be formidable.
He knows how to debate, e.g. sit in audience members laps and kiss them on the forehead.  They'll love that he looks them in the eye.

Klein will be forced to say "9-11 was bad" and "that what Jesus would do."

Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.

[ Parent ]
Question
How did Steve Raby manage to spend just $1K this cycle, especially given his cash haul?  Is his entire staff working for free?  I'm all for frugality, but that's an almost unbelievable level of cost-cutting.

The Crolian Progressive: as great an adventure as ever I heard of...
Steve Pearce back in Congress....
):  The thought is troubling folks, troubling.  I hear the argument here all the time that Teague can self fund, but it won't be NEARLY enough.  

Please donate to amcharities.org to help build more after school centers in the Miami area.  

23, Democrat, IA-2

Are you saying that Teague can't win
with any amount of money? Because he has 50 million dollars. It's not like he can't write himself a million dollar check if he needs to. Right now they are about even, a lot of people don't like Pearce, and he's coming back to the district after dumping it for a disastrous Senate race, and polling shows it tight, and you are worried here?
[ Parent ]
Hell
If I had 50 million dollars, I could beat Steve Pearce.

The Crolian Progressive: as great an adventure as ever I heard of...
[ Parent ]
Well I happen to find Stece Pearce to be a troubling character
I'm not saying Teague can't win, but hell yes I am worried about it.  We need more business people on our side of the aisle.  Steve Pearce is an extreme right winger and I've been consistently trying to raise red flags here so he doesn't get lost in the weeds amongst other races.  

Please donate to amcharities.org to help build more after school centers in the Miami area.  

23, Democrat, IA-2

[ Parent ]
Who is this Matt Doheny person?
And why does he have 800k?

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01
Lost special election nomination to DeDe
Came in 2nd I believe. He raised alot before the nomination process and loaned himself 500k and kept it all in the bank. He was believed to be the NRCC's preferred candidate in the special.
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