AZ-Sen: Props to the Hotline's Sean Sullivan - and to the McCain campaign! Thanks to them, we know that the size of J.D. Hayworth's first ad buy is an amazing $2,100 - and that "the ad will only run on Fox News in Tucson for the entire month of July." This is incredibly pathetic, and it's really too bad that this Matthew Lesko wannabe is going nowhere. A McCain flack gets in a good dig:
"That's actually less than he spent on bumper stickers and lapel pins in the first month-and-a-half of his campaign. Sounds like Hayworth really could use some of that free government money he hawked in his infomercial."
CO-Sen: Jane Norton says she raised $900K in Q2 and has $600K on hand. Her primary against Ken Buck (who hasn't released any numbers yet) is on August 10th.
FL-Sen: Kendrick Meek raised another million bucks in Q2, essentially the same as his hauls in each of the previous two quarters. He has about $4 million on hand - which, as Shira Toeplitz points out, is less than the $5 mil that zillionaire asshole Jeff Greene has already spent on the race.
IN-Sen, MO-08: Speaking of bullshit ad buys, Politico's Dave Catanese takes a good close look at several attempts to "earn media" by spending just a few bucks on the airwaves. Catanese's piece includes that quip about Hayworth cited above, and also some digs at Brad Ellsworth (IN-Sen) and Tommy Sowers (MO-08) for their less-than-impressive ad time purchases. A consultant for Dan Coats says that Ellsworth's buy is "very light and brief - not statewide - and about evenly split between cable and broadcast." Meanwhile, Sowers bought "just $6,400 in air time, with most of that on cable television in two counties."
SC-Sen: Just click the link. A mouth-agape must-read.
FL-Gov: Zillionaire whacko Rick Scott is challenging Florida's version of the "millionaire's amendment," which provides matching funds to candidates whose opponents exceed a certain spending cap - in this case, a pretty portly $25 million. You may recall that Crazy Jack Davis successfully challenged the federal millionaire's amendment before the Supreme Court in 2008, and that the SCOTUS blocked Arizona from distributing matching funds last month, so I'd give Scott decent odds of prevailing.
GA-10 (via email): Russell Edwards (no, I'd never heard of him either) is a Democrat running against Rep. Paul Broun in this dark red 61% McCain district. Still, he managed to raised just over $100K (from "nearly 500 individual donors") in the second quarter, which seems pretty good for a guy running in these circumstances.
ID-01: Rep. Walt Minnick kicked some fundraising ass last quarter, pulling in $410K and leaving him with $1.1 mil on-hand. Anyone care to guess what GOPer Raul Labrador will show?
SC-02: The otherwise seemingly invisible Rob Miller will be in DC today, doing some relatively low-dollar fundraisers. But it's not like the guy - who lucked into millions thanks to Joe Wilson's undying outburst - is really hurting for money (he had $1.7 mil on hand as of Q1). No word on his Q2 haul as of yet, though.
