Comments on: Greg Fischer – What the heck is going on?

By: JL...

JL... — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:40:31 +0000

Take a look at the ActBlue page for Fischer – 3 donors – $20.00. Real grass roots support.

By: jake

jake — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:29:36 +0000

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.

By: PennyrileDem

PennyrileDem — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:24:29 +0000

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.