The Second Congressional District race is quickly becoming the hottest race in the nation.
Ben Loyola blasted his fundraising numbers out first – filing his first report with $536,513 on hand. Breaking the half-million mark out of the gate is impressive! Loyola is a 30-year veteran and small business owner
Scott Rigell raised over $227,000 from donors bringing his total fundraising to over $452,000. An incredible showing. The press release claimed “Rigell will surely be one of the few candidates in the country who outraised an incumbent opponent.”
Guess he knew Loyola would be another one of the few.
Guess we’re in for one heck of a primary season.
UPDATE – This just in to Bearing Drift:
“Ben Loyola brought in a total of over $547,000 with a large part being a loan. The Loyola Campaign was very deliberate in its respect of the November 3rd election. Ben has been and always will be firmly committed to the election of the Republican Ticket in November and has deliberately tried not to take from the same pool of donors that Bob McDonnell needs to defeat the Democrat opponent. Ben has raised only some family and a limited amount of money from personal and business contacts deliberately out of respect and a desire not to undermine the Republican ticket.
Scott Rigell has not made the same effort and it is not the first time he has undermined the Republican Party with a finance report. While $264,806 has come from personal and family money, the Rigell campaign took $184,490 out of the potential donor pool. The Republican ticket needs every cent it can get and Ben refused to take from that pool and will not apologize for it. We need an unselfish leader with the resources to bring the Republican Party back into power in 2nd District and Ben Loyola is obviously the man for the job.” – Chris Woodfin, Strategist for Loyola for Congress
