While the month started off catastrophically for Darcy Burner when a fire destroyed her home, she sure has ended it on a high note.
Burner’s campaign has just turned in their pre-primary filing with the FEC, and she’s reporting to have raised nearly $351,000 in the month of July, ending the period with close to $1.5 million in the bank. Those are monstrous numbers, especially when you consider that only $18,000 of her total came from PACs.
We’ll let you know what GOP Rep. Dave Reichert raised as soon as he files his report. Wow.
UPDATE: Dave Reichert? $115,000, with $928,000 cash-on-hand. I wonder if he just dropped a brick on the floor of his campaign office.
Barring a huge last-minute mistake, I don’t see how Burner loses this one. Her fundraising advantage + the DCCC’s huge fundraising advantage + a big Obama landslide in Washington = the end of Dave Reichert’s short political career.
Combine this with her great new ads and I think we’ll be seeing Rep. Burner in 2009!
About a third of that was from the intertubes.
That’s not very good at all for Reichert, especially for a wealthy district like WA-08.
She got quite a bit of publicity when her house burned down. This big boost in fundraising may have occured due in part to people being sympathetic to her after that tragedy. I donated my first $20 to her just after that happened.
for the silly attack that Burner got a lot of her money from outside WA-08. And especially from those evil blogs. 🙂
that congressional candidates in swing districts around the country may start burning their houses down to improve fundraising:)?