Joe is onto something about Greg Fischer and his fear of spending money:
…if Fischer’s folks stopped the delusional notion that if he doesn’t spend money and go negative hard on Lunsford, he can be seen as the little guy “fighting the power” and “not shrill”. As I’ve said before, nobody in their right mind is going to think of a thrillionaire this way. And if he doesn’t dip into his own deep bank account and make some ads about himself and the DINO that is Bruce Lunsford, no one is going to think of him, period, because no one will know who the hell he is.
Fischer’s story has changed over the past couple months and now he seems to be back to being afraid to waste his money on the senate race. For evidence, take a peek at his latest email blast:
…we need to continue to show the media, Washington, and our voters that Team Fischer has the resources, strength, and momentum to put an end to Senator McConnell’s reign. And we need to do it by next Monday. That’s why we’re announcing this important fundraising challenge: in the next week, please help us raise $25,000 (before March 31st) to close the quarter as strong as possible.
Greg is as committed to retiring Mitch as you are and so Greg will match dollar for dollar your contribution! If you donate $25, $50, $100 or even the maximum of $2300, Greg will match it!
See that? Fischer’s only shooting for $25,000 over the next week. That’s it! Meanwhile, Sen. Mitch McConnell, we hear, was able to raise $100,000 during just an hour of telephone calls. $100K in a single hour.
Greg Fischer’s message to his supporters is that he has money but won’t spend it unless others are willing to risk their fortune on him. Is that a great way to pull in the skrilla at a time when his opponent Bruce Lunsford is willing to break the bank taking on McConnell?
Where are those balls of steel in the senate race, kids? Is this the excitement to which we get to look forward? Blah.
Or will we be faced with the constant barrage of stories like this one about Fischer’s media consultant fleeing the campaign? Schumer strikes again.
3 responses so far ↓
1 PennyrileDem // Mar 24, 2008 at 6:24 pm
As I understand it, under the “millionaire’s clause” in the fed campaign finance law, if a fed candidate in KY contributes over about $230,000, the opponent can then raise 3 x the limit of $2300 from individuals. And, I believe the time for invoking the millionairre’s clause has come and gone.
There is no need for Fischer to go over the millionaire clause. He will out fundraise Lunsford. Also, Lunsford has never been able to rease in big amount of $. Look at the Dem gov primary last year. Without putting in a large amount of their own $, Beshear Mongiardo out fundraised Lunsford (both contributions and his own $) by a large margin.
Lunsford can’t risk going over the millionairre’s clause. If he did, Fischer has a significant contributor base who could contribute up to the higher limit.
2 jake // Mar 24, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Actually, Bruce didn’t raise a ton of cash last cycle because we didn’t try to raise a ton. We stopped at a million bucks because we felt that was all we needed to supplement the several million he’d already given his campaign. And honestly, we didn’t need to raise as much as we did.
So, to say that Bruce can’t raise money is a bit… off the mark.
Bruce *can* risk activating the Millionaires’ Amendment because he can afford to.
Just stating the facts.
As for Fischer having a significant donor base? Guess we’ll see in a couple weeks when those FEC reports go public for Senate candidates. I’m betting the numbers are disappointing because Schumer, Beshear and Crew have been woah successful in scaring people out of contributing.
Not to mention a fundraiser in Northern Kentucky (that was put together by Nathan Smith’s crew) for Fischer had a dismal turn-out of seven people.
3 JL... // Mar 24, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Take a look at the ActBlue page for Fischer – 3 donors – $20.00. Real grass roots support.
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