Who cares that you start your campaign $92K in the hole, as soon as you turn on the new campaign, the money rolls in, $97,510, and you pay off your former political consultant a 4-year-old debt of $5k, you start paying yourself back on the loans you made, and you collect the money for the primary AND the general all at once (two checks of $2,500) as if the law that limits the campaign to $2,500 per cycle makes a difference. You don’t play by the rules the everyday candidate has to play by.
Take a look at this filing from the FEC. Her check of $2,700 to NGP VAN for her software rental was almost half of all I raised.
She hired a staffer (obviously to call donors for her) Uriah Anderson, for about $1,600 every two weeks. She spent $19,873.02 and this was the filing through Feb. 15th (I was too busy running to do the proper reporting).
We have the best candidate money could buy- and she won with a paltry 7,530 votes. That works out to: $12.95 a vote.
If she continues on that pace, and has to beat just Turner’s primary vote- of 79,548 at $12,95 a vote, she needs to raise: $1,030,123 ignoring the fact that the general election will have a much higher turnout. No matter what, she’s going to need at least 2 commas in her campaign chest.
While this filing doesn’t have the huge PAC money in it yet- it’s coming. Read it and wake up. We’re on our way to another auction for Congress. Sharen Neuhardt Pre-primary 2012 FEC Filing [1]
Who needs to say anything. Money talks.
1. In the United States, the lawyers make the rules.
2. Sharon Neuhardt is a lawyer.
3. See #1 above.
As soon as I can retire, I’m expatriating to Central America.
Hey David, you seem to be very knowledgeable about the board of elections. I believe I got an all republican ballot the other day. I wanted to vote for Sheriff Plummer because I love him and a few republican judges. If a person votes openly regardless of party, versus strickly for one party, do you have to say independent or you only get a one party ballot?
Thanks Lynn
Hi Lynn, Plummer didn’t have a primary challenger- he was guaranteed to win. I doubt any of the judges had opposition either. In Ohio you can ask for an “issues only ballot” and be a “independent”- which means you only get to pick from whatever others picked for you in a primary- or you can pick the 2 major parties or the 5 minor ones. This year- the Green party actually had 2 candidates vying for an office so you would have had one choice.
I’ve covered this before on the site. And I thought I could count on your vote… :-(
Im not real well versed in politics because as I said in person to ou, I hate the political nonsense of trying to get things done. I hate phony too.
How did you do? Do you know yet? I didnt realize until I spoke to someone that Obama was on there. I said I didnt Obama on mine, only a bunch of racists and Ron Paul, lol
When do I get a tour of your hood with you?
Hi Lynn- Obama was on the DEMOCRATIC primary ballot- along with me. Mr. Third place out of six.
Tour of the hood soon-
David, thought you might get a kick out of this; it’s not exact, but I spent aprox. 6/10 of a cent per vote… that has to be some kind of record. :)
One of the commenters on this thread seems to be related to regular Esrati.com commenter Gary.
@David Lauri- sorry, yep- our great democracy doesn’t do a very good job of explaining our system of voting. I guess I’ll have to make a video about it….
@Ryan, I hate to tell you this, but, None of the above would have beat you and Mack on this. You did well for doing next to nothing- apparently your power base is in Fayette County. Don’t let that deter you, learn what works. Shake a lot of hands- not at candidates nights- but, door to door- and have at least a business card to hand out.
@ Ryan and David
Michael Smith has you beat on votes per dollar. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/william-r-smith-ohio-second-district_n_1333094.html?ref=elections-2012
@Joe Mamma- “never underestimate the stupidity of people in large numbers”
I’m not proud of how much I spent to lose. It was way too much. The Dem turnout was horrid.
Note- Turner spent what Sharen raised in this election. Watch for the money machines to kick in.
As soon as I figure out it’s a robo-call, I hang up…always. Who the heck listens through those things anyway? And who the heck votes just because some idiotic computer told them too?!?!?
Wow. There must be a lot of genuinely brain-dead people out there.