Not only did Dan Coats miss the filing deadline for his financial disclosures, he also failed to raise as much money as people were expecting.
Doing nothing to tamp down expectations, the low side of the Coats haul was expected to be $500,000.00 and the high side to be $1 million. He only made it to $379,000.00.
On the other hand, Marlin Stutzman keeps picking up endorsements in Indiana, with more of the state legislature and Republican leaders in the state backing him.
Marlin’s is the next major Senate primary on the calendar. We need to help him get across the finish line.
Steve Maley
KnightsofMalta
Dan Spencer
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
How much did Stutzman raise?
redtillimdead (Diary) Thursday, April 15th at 7:48PM EST (link)Coats raised more this quarter (more than double!) what Stutzman raised all last year, and he’s been in the race since July! I wouldn’t mention Coats’ fundraising and say it shows he is toast. If this shows Coats is toast, then Stutzman is already out!
Nancy Pelosi can kiss my asstroturf.
Coats is not toast
ktsub (Diary) Thursday, April 15th at 9:17PM EST (link)How much did the other candidates bring in?
Hostettler has not yet reported
redtillimdead (Diary) Thursday, April 15th at 10:13PM EST (link)Stutzman, HALF of Coats’ with 125k. Hostettler probably around that b/c he has always been a crappy fundraisier. The rest had less than 100k this quarter. Coats leads overall fundraising, even if you combine Stutzman’s fundraising from the last 9 months, unless Hostettler shocks us.
Nancy Pelosi can kiss my asstroturf.
Hostettler's about to do much better
Princeliberty Friday, April 16th at 9:17PM EST (link)I know some of you won’t like this. But Paul’s money bomb machine is now coming in to help Hostettler and you can bet they will easily and quickly give Hostettler more money than anyone else.
Really, you guys need to stop the Paul hating. We are all agreeing on most things. We can honorably disagree where we do. But we are all fighting big government.
Princeliberty
The conservative vote is being split north, south, east, and west
Mayhem (Diary) Thursday, April 15th at 9:18PM EST (link)Conservative voters have got to coalesce around one candidate in this primary. We have 4 freaking candidates opposing Dan Coats for the GOP nod and they are all splitting the conservative base. At some point, one of these four is going to have to step up. Conservatives need to pick a guy and go with him to beat Coats. I’d prefer Stutzman, but if Hostettler is the closest guy to Coats the week before the primary, I might have to vote for him.
James Madison, Jim DeMint, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan… You get the picture.
Hostettler?
redtillimdead (Diary) Thursday, April 15th at 10:14PM EST (link)I’m sorry, but Coats is more conservative than him. He voted AGAINST the Iraq War. We do not need a Republican senator against the Iraq War. I can see supporting Stutzman over Coats, I do not, but I could see why someone would. I can’t see why someone would support Hostettler over Coats.
Nancy Pelosi can kiss my asstroturf.
Speaking of not meeting goals...
tdpwells Thursday, April 15th at 10:35PM EST (link)Apparently John Kasich is $475k short from their “personal goal” according to a letter that I got the other day regarding the upcoming primary. That surprises me, as he was very popular as a state rep. Although I know Strickland has been repeating the Lehman Bros meme ad nauseum.
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I do not believe that the power and duty of the General
Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual
suffering which is in no manner properly related to the
public service or benefit…to the end that the lesson should
be constantly enforced that though the people support the
Government, the Government should not support the people.
Grover Cleveland (16 February 1887)
Another shark jumper heard from
reverelth (Diary) Thursday, April 15th at 11:49PM EST (link)Tommy Thompson opts not to take on Russ Feingold in Wisconsin.
http://www.libertytreehugger.com
wow
zr2x4 (Diary) Thursday, April 15th at 11:58PM EST (link)scott brown raised 4 times more in one day