Donner Posts $206K in FEC Filing
By Shaun Kenney | Friday, July 1st, 2011 | Catch-AllU.S. Senate candidate Timothy Donner has announced first, posting a respectable $206,000 in the latest FEC filing report.
Donner totaled more than $206,000 in his campaign account, including more than $91,000 in individual contributions.
With his NO BUSINESS AS USUAL platform, the Virginia conservative has attracted national attention with more than 100 individual contributions. Conservative activists, ordinary citizens, former US Ambassadors, heads of prestigious national conservative organizations and a retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral stepped up to support the conservative Donner, who has proven – as was written recently about him – that “while he is new to politics, he is certainly no political neophyte.”
…and after his recent communications staff shake up, he has certainly mended fences.
Will follow up with other U.S. Senate candidates FEC announcements as they come!
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Shaun Kenney is the Chairman of the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors, former Communications Director for the Republican Party of Virginia, and an active blogger since 2002. Shaun lives in Thomas Jefferson's backyard with his wife, six children, and a modest attempt at a farm in Kents Store, Virginia.
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6 Responses to "Donner Posts $206K in FEC Filing"
There is no report at the FEC site. If $91,000 of the $206,000 was in personal contributions, how much was in loans etc ? I can’t imagine a lot of pacs donating at this point.
I recently attended an event where Donner spoke. Now, THAT is a candidate. He has great comportment and demonstrates a knowledge of the heart of the issues. Most importantly, he doesn’t simply give a bunch of pre-authored, over-used platitudes, he actually presents IDEAS FOR SOLUTIONS. He isn’t riding the cape of has-beens, nor does he appear to be a talking head, like Radtke. I’m impressed by this report.
Curious, though, why this blog chose to position the report in a back-handed complimentary way? Yet another agenda-toting blog, are we?
I can’t get too much behind the horse race coverage of these races. I think that’s part of how we got where we are. I support Donner not because I think he’s going to win, but because if elected I think he’ll do the best job.
So it appears that Donner only raised $91,000 and gave himself the rest. I think a better headline would not have used the puffery that that the larger amount shows. Too many campaigns do this these days to cover for weak fundraising. Since this information must have come from within the campaign and they are praised in the article, who exactly are a part of his new communications staff who sent out the bloated numbers ?
Kaye, Shaun’s post is 100% positive. What’s your beef? It’s respectable and he mended fences – that’s not backhanded.
Donner and his supporters are quickly getting the reputation of whiners about coverage.
Meanwhile, you resort to namecalling in your one moment in the sun comment!
Lighten up
Hello dear readers,
Like KayeR, I too attended a Donner event in the fairly recent past. Anyone who listens to the guy can only come away with a favorable impression. Donner seems to have integrity, purpose, conviction, and dedication. That all adds up to a Senator who will follow through with what he says instead of saying one thing now and then doing/voting the other way when elected as so often has been happening.
I remember the buzz about Scott Brown. Well, what has he done lately…..voted with the liberals. It reminds me of George Allen when he was in the Senate; he was a key figure in putting us in the mess we are in now fiscally and otherwise, consistently voting the wrong way, the left way. These kind of “public servants” are the epitome of what people mean when they say, “Politicians are all liars”.
Donner definitely does not seem to me to be like that at all and surely does not seem to fit them mold of the kind who will compromise himself by saying or doing anything just to get elected.
Best wishes to everyone and may God bless America,
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