{"id":4783,"date":"2011-01-25T19:06:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T01:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2011-01-26T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T18:02:25","slug":"texas-2012-senate-campaign-fundraising-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=4783","title":{"rendered":"Texas 2012 Senate Campaign Fundraising Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just as a modern army runs on gasoline, a modern political campaign runs on money. Several of the Senate candidates have been quite active in that regard, according to FEC documents<\/a> for the 2009-2010 period:<\/p>\n

  • Michael Williams<\/a> has received a total of $743,458 in donations<\/a> from 519 individuals<\/a>. As noted previously<\/a>, he also received significant support from the Senate Conservatives Fund, and was (if I’m scanning this correctly) the only non-2010 candidate to receive funding from them last year<\/a>.\n
  • Roger Williams<\/a> has received a whopping $1,643,928 in donations<\/a> from 1335 individuals<\/a>. Moreover, since Williams was the earliest candidate to announce, he raised $131,000<\/a> in the 2007-2008 election cycle, though $100,000 of that was a loan to himself, the rest from 18<\/a> individuals.\n
  • Elizabeth Ames Jones<\/a> has raised $989,765<\/a> from 1051 individuals<\/a>.\n
  • I don’t think State Senator Florence Shapiro<\/a> has a high enough profile to win the Republican nomination, but that didn’t keep her from raising $525,285<\/a> for a Senate run. However, there seem to be almost as many refunds as donations listed in her filing, many for people who have multiple entries for the same amount on the same day. I can’t tell whether she refunded people because she decided not to run, or if it was just to offset a data glitch. (I sent off a question, but the address on her campaign website bounces.)\n
  • On the Democratic side, holy moly! John Sharp may have been invisible on the campaign trail, but he’s already got $3,994,490 in his war chest<\/a>, having raised money from 722 individuals<\/a>. However, over $3 million of that comes from a “Candidate Loan.” So Sharp hasn’t been lazy the last year, he’s been in “stealth mode.” But that still doesn’t explain why johnsharp.com redirects to Network Solutions…\n
  • Though he says he’s not running, Bill White has raised an even larger $6,015,014<\/a> for his Senate campaign from 4521<\/a> individuals. (As these are federal disclosure forms, my understanding is that none of White’s funding for his Governor’s race would be included here.) But it’s possible the bulk was raised before he switched to run for Governor.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    I can’t find any Senate fundraising reports on any of the other likely serious candidates<\/a>. (Democrat Chet Edwards shows up, but only for his unsuccessful attempt to hold onto his House seat<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

    Keep in mind that these are very early figures, only go through 9\/30\/10 for most candidates, and several potential candidates haven’t started raising funds yet. I have little doubt that, should David Dewhurst jump into the race as expected, he would easily be able to amass somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 million by year’s end. <\/p>\n

    We’re not even at the starting line yet, but contestants are already starting to mosey out to the track…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Just as a modern army runs on gasoline, a modern political campaign runs on money. Several of the Senate candidates have been quite active in that regard, according to FEC documents for the 2009-2010 period: Michael Williams has received a total of $743,458 in donations from 519 individuals. As noted previously, he also received significant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":28,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,18,12],"tags":[928,203,457,2862,947,961,953,946,943,2861,945],"class_list":["post-4783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-elections","category-republicans","category-texas","tag-2012-election","tag-bill-white","tag-campaign-contributions","tag-elections","tag-elizabeth-ames-jones","tag-florence-shapiro","tag-john-sharp","tag-michael-williams","tag-roger-williams","tag-texas","tag-texas-senate-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4783"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4837,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}