Herrity claims lead in money race over Fimian
By Alan Moore | Thursday, April 15th, 2010 | PoliticsTwo hours after Keith Fimian claimed a lead in the fundraising battle, Pat Herrity responded by accusing Fimian of a little fuzzy math.
With my first quarter fundraising numbers out, the records show:
• I raised $278,045 in 9 short weeks – that is more than my primary opponent raised during the 10 weeks I was in the race and about the same as he raised in the whole quarter.
• More than 860 people have contributed to my campaign, which is much higher than my primary opponent and shows my significant grassroots support.
• Over 98% of my contributors live in Northern Virginia – this is significantly greater than my opponent. The voters in the 11th district are financially supporting my campaign.
• My average contribution is significantly lower than my primary opponents and again shows the depth of the grassroots support I have in Northern Virginia.
My opponent is reporting a cash on hand advantage as he has been in the race for over a year. Fortunately much of it is a personal loan to the campaign that he has not yet committed to contribute and use in this campaign. It also includes a significant amount of money that cannot be used in the primary.
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10 Responses to "Herrity claims lead in money race over Fimian"
Go Pat!
Herrity’s FEC Report – http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00475335/461854/sa/ALL
Fimians Report – http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00464552/462439/sa/ALL
Fimian raised $256,440.21 to Herrity’s $237,759.15
Herrity is blatantly lying in his email, he also said that 98% of his donations came from Northern Virginia, when in reality $21,469/%11.0745 came from outside of the region.
National Fundraising is great, but Pat is being disingenuous. Keith’s national support is largely due to his endorsement by House Minority Whip Eric Cantor and his membership in the NRCC’s Young Guns program.
Herrity can’t get any of his stories right. This means he can not be trusted in our community. He should be for ban of all earmarks.
Earmarks bring corruption. Herrity campaign contributors will pressure him for special earmarks for their interests. Even little earmarks mean big corruption. It is not how much money that is spent. It is the buying of Congressmen by lobbyists, constituents, and campaign contributors that makes the system corrupt.
There is no moratorium on corruption. There can be no moratorium on earmarks. They must be banned. Because Herrity does not understand this, he cannot be our congressman.
Bobby Nguyen, will you be donating to fund a primary challenger for Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan as well?
This a joke isn’t it? Herrity can’t get his numbers straight and he claims to be a CFO? Remind me not to hire him, or vote for him.
Herrity once again shows why he will be a much better congressman than keith fimian could ever dream to be.
why are only two staffers listed under expenditures when there is a small army of paid operatives? Also, did anyone else miss paid volunteers under expenditures? I know for a fact that herrity has resorted to AstroTurf in pwc.
PWConservative, your links don’t include the under $250 contributions. There’s two parts to the report: the Recap and those who contributed $250.00 or more.
The recap links are as follow which include the under $250.00 contributions.
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/cancomsrs/?_10+H8VA11021 – Fimian
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/cancomsrs/?_10+H0VA11077 – Herrity
This was also a short term for Herrity. If you look at Q1, Pat had 9 vs. 13 Weeks for Fimian to fund raise. The amount of under $250.00 contributions is a good indicator of Grass Roots support.
I haven’t dug through the entire report but we need to consider there’s the factor of Candidate Self Financing. I believe Fimian has contributed about $120,000 to his own campaign of which $110,000 was prior to 2010.
PWC, every campaign uses paid walkers to supplement their volunteer walking unless they can’t afford it. Fimian is using paid walkers as well.
[...] goes on to analyze the numbers, once again charging Fimian with fuzzy math. “For starters, he is using the same faulty logic Gerry Connolly [...]
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