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Campaign Watch: GOP Cash Situation Deteriorates
Campaign Watch: GOP Cash Situation Deteriorates
Congressional Republicans can’t seem to keep pace in the race for cash this election cycle. Their inability to get a grasp on earmark spending, their failure to support President Bush’s veto of the multi-billion-dollar agricultural bill, and their utter lack of an agenda for the fall have brought them more angry letters than checks. Recent high-profile losses in special elections in districts once considered safe have led many donors to believe that Republicans don’t have what it takes to regain the majority this November. As a consequence, people are keeping their checkbooks shut and starving the GOP of campaign cash. So far this election cycle, the National Republican Congressional Committee has brought in only $27 million of the $58 million it projected. What’s worse, they have only $6 million on hand, compared to nearly $45 million on hand reported by congressional Democrats. Things have gotten so bad that the GOP is bribing donors with stuffed elephant toys if they donate $35 or more, saying “Sam†will be the “hit of your July Fourth Party.†That might be the case if Sam is stuffed with fireworks and set afire in the driveway.
posted on June 21, 2008 6:03 PM ()
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