The DCCC and the NRCC have filed their monthly financial reports with the FEC, and the news is still bleak for House Republicans. The GOP must like their favorite color quite a bit, because their House committee is still stuck in the red:
| Committee | Raised | Spent | Cash on Hand | Debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DCCC | $4.1M | $3.2M | $29.2M | $2.1M |
| NRCC | $3.6M | $2.6M | $2.6M | $3.6M |
Jon Singer over at MyDD has more numbers, including the 2-to-1 cash-on-hand edge that the DSCC is enjoying over the NRSC.
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(Bumped – promoted by James L.)
Yesterday was the deadline for House and Senate campaigns to file their fundraising reports for the second quarter of 2007. As promised, just like we did for the first and second quarters, we’ve amassed a list of noteworthy fundraising numbers for House incumbents and challengers. While this list is seriously mega, it is not meant to be comprehensive. If we’ve missed anything, please post the numbers in the comments. And remember: these numbers are adjusted for rounding. The second column shows cash-on-hand, and the third shows cycle-to-date fundraising.
Scroll buttons ready? Away we go!
A few quick notes:
No later than the 15th day after the end of all quarters save the fourth, campaigns must file their fundraising reports with the FEC. For the third quarter, that much-anticipated day is today. As we’ve seen, many campaigns choose to file early, but we should still expect to see a flood of reports, at least from House candidates.
Senate reports are also due today, but thanks to truly insane regulations, these reports are filed in hardcopy and then, at great expense and lousy resolution, scanned in electronically. This doesn’t just cost money, it takes time as well – there’s at least a three-to-four week lag before these reports become available. That means reports from the third quarter next year won’t even be available until after the election! (For more on this insane state of affairs – which is entirely the fault of the Republicans – and what you can do to help, read Adam B here.)
Obviously, this is wildly unacceptable in this modern age. So I have a piece of advice for smart Senate campaigns across the country: post your filings on your websites. Not just a press release with your totals raised and on-hand – I’m talking about the entire PDF, or better yet, an Excel spreadsheet. Not only should these campaigns have nothing to hide, there’s nothing they can hide, because all this information will become public soon anyway.
This also leads me to another point. In the online era, the concept of quarterly filings seems rather antique. While I doubt that hidebound legislators would ever go in for this, I think some form of rolling disclosures would make a lot more sense. On one occasion, I worked in the finance department of a campaign, and we had to track donations daily anyway. Shooting this information over to the FEC on, say, a weekly basis would have meant almost zero additional work, except perhaps hitting “upload.”
The fact is, some form of this is already happening now. ActBlue updates totals in real time, and a growing number of campaigns use it as their exclusive online donation mechanism. Obviously these numbers don’t reflect checks received at live events and the like, but as ever-increasing amounts of money are contributed on the Internet, ActBlue totals are becoming more meaningful.
Like I say, I’m sure most politicians would resist this sort of reform. But with things like ActBlue and Dean bats pushing them, some smart campaigns will embrace this sort of open-ness.
In the meantime, though, I’m looking forward to all the third quarter reports. James will have a mammoth chart of all available numbers as soon as it’s feasible, but for now, you can catch up on all the early reports at these links:
Fundraising Reports | Son of… | Bride of… | Revenge of… | Indiana Jones and…
Yeah, I’m running out of titles for these threads.
Bill Young (R-inc): $29K raised; $579K CoH
Huge stunner here. It appears that Young, an 18-term incumbent who has been long rumored to be another potential Republican House retirement, is dampening his fundraising pace dramatically (he raised $200K in the second quarter). These numbers are positively John Warner-esque. Is Young looking for the exit? Perhaps that would explain why Young made this unconscionable vote recently–he knows he won’t be held accountable for it if he bails.
FL-10 is a true swing district: Gore won it by two points, and Kerry lost it by the same close margin. If Young cut the cord and ran, this would be a huge pick-up opportunity for Democrats.
Tom Perriello (D): $110K raised; $111K CoH
All this in just a few weeks since he entered the race. Hoo-boy. It looks like Virgil Goode will face a real test next year.
Shelley Moore Capito (R): $259K raised; $525K CoH
Steve Driehaus (D): $121K raised; $251K CoH
Jason Altmire (D-inc): $281K raised; $737K CoH
Mike Erickson (R): $101K raised; $101K CoH
Interestingly, if you follow the above link, Mike Erickson’s campaign address is listed as being in Salt Lake City, Utah, and not Oregon, where he is running. What’s up with that?
Marilyn Musgrave (R): $286K raised; $602K CoH
Jon Powers (D): $118K raised; $182K CoH
Tim Walberg (R-inc): $139K raised; $328K CoH
Yep, Mark Schauer (D) outraised Walberg by a hefty margin: $220K to $139 for the frosh incumbent Walberg, despite Schauer only entering the race midway through the quarter. Is Walberg doomed?
More 3rd Quarter fundraising reports–fresh from the FEC bakery.
Gayle Harrell (R): $95K raised; $184K CoH
Steve Pearce (R-inc): $251K raised; $582K CoH
PA-04:
Melissa Hart (R): $235K raised; $219K CoH
Ron Francis (R): $38K raised; $98K CoH
Terri Bonoff (D): $89K raised; $88K CoH (in about a week)
Diane Benson (D): $35K raised; $28K CoH
Jim Ogsbury (R): $100K raised + $250K personal loan
Jon Bruning (R): $223K raised; $955K CoH
Gordon Smith (R-inc): $827K raised; $4.04M CoH
Got any more numbers? Post ’em in the comments.
UPDATE:
Gary Peters (D): $217K raised; $198K CoH (in about six weeks)
It’s time for another round-up of all the third quarter fundraising reports for House and Senate campaigns. (Our first two reports can be found here and here.) The deadline for candidates to file their reports is the 15th, so we’ll still have to wait a few days until we get flooded with numbers. If you’ve seen any other 3Q figures floating through the tubes, post ’em in the comments.
Allen West (R): $12.5K raised; $13K CoH
Randy Demmer (R): $17K raised; $56K CoH
Jim Saxton (R-inc): $97K raised; $1.39M CoH
Nick Jordan (R): $108K raised; $99K CoH
Kyle Foust (D): $42K raised; $27K CoH
Gary Miller (R-inc): $39K raised; $801K CoH
Mark Schauer (D): $220K raised; $195K CoH (in five weeks)
Eric Egland (R): $77K raised; $70K CoH (in two months)
IL-14:
Chris Lauzen (R): $210K raised + $325K personal donation (source: House Race Hotline)
PA-10:
Chris Hackett (R): $245KraisedCoH (source: HRH)
Joe Knollenberg (R-inc): $400K raised; $860K CoH
Update:
Nels Ackerson (D): $134K raised
Since our last post got buried, let’s put up a new one rounding up the third quarter financial reports for candidates running for House and Senate seats next year. As you know, the deadline for campaigns to file these reports is on the 15th, but some figures have been released already. Let’s take a look at a few. If you know of any others, post ’em in the comments.
Bill Foster (D): ~$200K raised, and a $200K personal loan ($408K total)
Judy Feder (D): $223K raised
Update:
Andrew Rice (D): $310K raised
Very impressive for only 60 days of fundraising in a deep red state. Compare it with Rick Noriega’s $570K in Texas, a much larger state with a deeper Democratic fundraising base. Quite a decent start for Rice.
Al Franken (DFL): $1.89 million
Norm Coleman (R-inc.): $1.7 million
Huge news. Why? Because more than half of Coleman’s cash ($1 million, to be precise) came from a single fundraising event with President Bush. This means that Coleman only raised $700K during the other 91 days in the quarter. Moreover, apart from the fundraiser, Coleman raised less than $8000 a day during the quarter while Franken raised more than TWENTY thousand a day during the quarter.
Mark Udall (D): $1.1 million+ raised; $3.1 million CoH
It’s officially October 1st, which means that candidates have until the 15th to file their third quarter fundraising reports with the FEC. Got any early reports for House and Senate candidates?
Like we did last time, SSP will have a massive round-up of all the noteworthy numbers once they’ve been filed.
UPDATE: Here are a few early numbers:
Multiple sources are telling us that surrogates of [state Senator] Terri Bonoff [D] are calling Democrats in the 3rd District and telling them that Bonoff raised just around $90,000 in the third quarter.Given that Bonoff only had about a week to work with before the quarter ended, $90,000 is impressive. Its clear that Bonoff has significant fundraising abilities.
Rick Noriega (D): $570K raised
Bill O’Neill (D): $100K+ raised
UPDATE 2 (David): Bunch more numbers in this Hill piece:
Republican Primary Challengers:
CA-04: Mike Holmes, $20K (vs. John Doolittle)
MD-01: Andy Harris, >$175K (vs. Wayne Gilchrest)
NC-03: Joe McLaughlin, $24K (vs. Walter Jones)Republican Incumbents:
KY-Sen: Mitch McConnell, “about” $1.5 million ($6.8 million cash-on-hand)Democratic Challengers:
CO-02: Joan Fitz-Gerald, $360K; Jared Polis, >$305K
ID-Sen: Larry LaRocco, >$100K
MN-Sen: Al Franken (D), “at least” $1.8 million
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