In the primaries Judy Baker raised over 400K mostly from individual donations, while Blaine Luetkemeyer self-funded over 325K and raised 140K from donations.
http://www.opensecrets.org/rac…
It appears that Luetkemeyer having secured a primary victory where both he and Onder self-funded over 325K and then rapidly spent that money in a negative ad blitz, is unable to continue pouring hundreds of thousands of his own money into the campaign.
He is now hoping that outside groups and the NRCC can help bankroll his campaign.
In the interview below he says that he is unlikely to continue self-funding.
See story and interview here:
http://blogs.columbiatribune.c…
The DCCC and NRCC have both entered the race, but Baker seems more prepared to continue to raise money from individual donors than Luetkemeyer whose primary funding was below expectations. If you take out self-funding, Luetkemeyer was actually outraised by non-serious primary candidate Danie Moore (as well as Bob Onder) in the last fundraising quarter and was outraised by Baker nearly 3 to 1 in the last quarter.
If Luetkemeyer is unable to self-fund he will need to pick up his fundraising pace considerably to keep pace with Baker.
This is a Lean Republican district but Judy Baker should be able to outraise Luetkemeyer and make it very competitive.
Please feel free to donate to Judy Baker at my ActBlue page below if you’d like to help her continue to outraise Luetkemeyer.
http://www.actblue.com/page/wa…
To double the effectiveness of any swing state donations, I’ll match all small donations on my page and all total donations this week on my page up to $400.