Congressional incumbents have big fundraising leads

Posted at 4:28 PM on April 15, 2008 by Mike Mulcahy (3 Comments)

The AP reports two Minnesota Republicans--Michelle Bachman and John Kline-- have a ton of money in the bank compared to their DFL opponents.

Bachmann has more than $1 million cash on hand. The DFLers who hope to run against her in the 6th District have much less. El Tinklenberg reported having $102,000 and Bob Olson had $112,000. Olson lend his campaign more than $60,000.

Kline has more than $500,000 on hand, compared with $39,000 for DFLer Steve Sarvi.

Just think how many campaign mailings all that money can buy.

Comments (3)

How many mailings will it take to buy your vote?

Wonder if Michele's ad will include a centerfold of her kissing the president at the 2007 State of the Union address?

Posted by Nana | April 15, 2008 9:58 PM

That's right, Bachmann's got a humongous money advantage for the 2008 election.

Which we predicted at Dump Bachmann about two years ago. This is why we warned the Independence Party that they should join with the Dems in effort to keep her out--because she got in, she'd have all these GOP special interests throwing great jolly s---loads of money at her for re-election.

And once that happened, the IP would go from being a significant factor in the 6th district to being an irrelevancy.

Which, let us face it, is what has happened. Next time Dump Bachmann tells you not to split the anti-Bachmann vote, you listen, IP voters, or your candidates will spend the next two years collecting erotica again.

What I don't understand is--if Bachmann's got a ten to one money advantage over her Dem competitors, why is she *still* forbidding the press from reporting on her speeches at GOP events?

Posted by Bill Prendergast | April 16, 2008 1:18 AM

Aren't you forgetting something?

Walz has over $1 million cash-on-hand, while GOP primary challenger Dick Day has $72,000 COH compared to endorsed Republican Brian Davis.

That's a much larger gap than that faced by Sarvi and Kline. And it's not worth mentioning by Polinaut, even though it's in the AP article too.

Posted by Ollie Ox | April 17, 2008 12:47 PM

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