2Q Fundraising Reports Open Thread

UPDATE: Mark Udall hauled in $1.1 million+ in the second quarter and has $2.5 million cash on hand in his bid for Colorado’s open Senate seat.


While we plan on posting a comprehensive chart listing all the fundraising action in hot Senate and House races (like we did here for the first quarter), the deadline for campaigns to file their reports is still under a week away–so let’s use this as a chance to profile some of the reports we’ve seen so far.

  • WA-08: According to Horse’s Ass, Democrat Darcy Burner has raised $200K in the second quarter and has $185K left in the bank.  Not unimpressive.  Burner is pledging to run a different kind of campaign in 2008, and she’s started by hiring a better media guy: Dan Kully, who created the beloved ad Creating a Buzz for Jon Tester last year.

  • NM-02: Doña Ana County Commissioner Bill McCamley just might have the most surprising fundraising total of them all so far this quarter: a very respectable $140K.  Given that McCamley is facing Republican incumbent Steve Pearce in the state’s most Republican-leaning district (at a PVI of R+5.7), reports like McCamley’s could be evidence of an increased sense of optimism among ambitious Democrats that many more Republican-leaning districts could be in play next year.

  • MI-07: As noted in the comments by SSPer Fitzy, local attorney and Democrat David Nacht raised $160K in the second quarter in his bid to challenge freshman Rep. Tim Walberg.  While Nacht is not the only candidate for the Democratic nomination (former state Sen. Jim Berryman is another), Walberg Watch picks up the real significance of the numbers:

    This is great fundraising for Nacht, and more than a little refreshing– $160,000 is more than all the Democratic candidates from 2002 to 2006 combined.

  • CO-04: Angie Paccione raised “more than” $100K.

If you’ve got any other numbers, post ’em in the comments.

24 thoughts on “2Q Fundraising Reports Open Thread”

  4. …was won by Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, I believe.  You gotta think it’s very possible that New Mexico could join Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, North Dakota, and Hawaii in having totally Democratic Congressional delegations.

    Also, The Hill reports that Bill Young raised more than $200,000 this quarter:
    http://thehill.com/c…

  5. Courtesy of Eric Krol at the Daily Herald…http://www.dailyhera…
    Big fundraising numbers in Illinois’s 10th Congressional District. Incumbent GOP “moderate” Mark Kirk hauled in a staggering $616,000 leaving him with about $1.1 million cash on hand already.
    On the Democratic side, there is a primary a-brewing. Dan Seals, the 2006 Democratic challenger who took a surprising 47% of the vote against Kirk, brought in a very stellar $250,073 this quarter giving him $264,808 cash on hand. Seals’s primary opponent, former Clinton adviser Jay Footlik, raised $286,000 and has $270,000 cash on hand.
    Footlik’s fundraising shows that he is serious about challenging Seals for the nomination. It will still be an uphill climb for Footlik though because party activists still, by in large, enthusiastically support Dan Seals. Either way though, both challengers raised large amounts of cash and must continue to do so to match Kirk’s prodigious pace.
    Kirk represents an affluent north suburban Chicago district with a PVI of D+4, making it one of the most Democratic seats to be held by a Republican. The DCCC has already pledged to support the primary winner and this should be a top-tier race in 2008.

  6. Thanks for the front-page attention! On Walberg Watch, I’ve posted more on Nacht and Berryman fundraising numbers.

    Nacht ended up raising $160,642.02, all from individual contributions. He’s got $129,365.99 cash-on-hand. Nacht announced his candidacy on March 26.

    Berryman raised $50,364.42, with $7,800 coming from non-party committees (including labor contributions). He only spent $651.15, leaving him with $49,713.26 cash-on-hand. Berryman announced his candidacy on May 1.

    An interesting note: Berryman received contributions from former Michigan Governor James Blanchard and 1998 Democratic gubernatorial nominee Geoffrey Fieger.

    I’m personally torn– I like Blanchard, but I can’t stand Fieger!

  7. nominated a candidate twice in row for MI-07, who’s campaign centerpiece was a refusal to raise any money. Idealist never get anywhere, and it shows very telling taht despite the enormous amount of negative press, a horrible primary in which the incumbent Republican then refused to endorse him, a moderately Republican district, and it being the most Democratic year since at least 1982, that Wahlburg still won. Despite the fact that he is so conservative he rivals if not exceeds Bill Sali’s Wingnuttiness. If nomianted one of the other candidates, several of whom were trying, we wouldn’t have lost this 51-49. This was abungled opportunity, and now it will be a great deal harder to take this seat. But, we need to have Jim Berryman as a candidate. He retains a lot more connnections and better name rec. He’s a much strogner candidate. I hope he outraises this Nacht, by a considerable margin. But, I believe a primary makes this pick up even harder. 

  8. Democrat Martin Heinrich raised $181,000 from about 700 people in the 2nd quarter and didn’t start fundraising until late April. The campaign surpassed their stated goal of $150,000. They raised more than $35,000 of the total on Act Blue. About 71% of donations came from within New Mexico’s first Congressional District, and about 88% from within the state.

    Heinrich wants the chance to challenge Repub incumbent Heather Wilson, who won by less than 900 votes last time.

    Read more here:

    http://www.democracy…

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