Kaine posts big fundraising numbers; Allen targets “ActBlue”?
By JR Hoeft | Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 | PoliticsFormer Gov. Tim Kaine boasted a strong second quarter of fundraising. The campaign disclosed that since April 5 more than 4,600 supporters have contributed approximately $2.25 million dollars.
“We are pleased with how many people are responding to this campaign in its first weeks,” said Brandi Hoffline, Kaine’s spokeswoman.
Of course, the Allen campaign – who more or less has been running against Kaine instead of four other Republicans in the field – was a bit less enthusiastic about Kaine’s haul.
“As expected, liberal special interests have begun lining up to support and fund Chairman Kaine’s campaign, including more than half a million dollars from the liberal website ActBlue alone,” said Bill Riggs, Allen’s spokesman.
Indeed, special interests can and will fund Kaine’s campaign, but is targeting ActBlue the right idea?
Around the Bearing Drift water-cooler this morning, we openly wondered whether the Allen response is a bit misguided, considering ActBlue’s role is to be a medium for online giving from individual donors. It’s not, exactly, a special interest group, such as MoveOn.org or the Sierra Club. It’s a tool for liberal donors – an idea we certainly should also use for conservatives.
The more cogent attack should be, “Is that the best you could do?”
Kaine, who is alone in the field, a former DNC chair, and governor of Virginia, could only muster 4000 donors? What will happen if Congressman Bobby Scott decides to enter the fray?
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In somewhat related info, our friend, Rick Sincere, had the chance to interview Kaine this weekend in Crozet. We’re looking forward to our chance!
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4 Responses to "Kaine posts big fundraising numbers; Allen targets “ActBlue”?"
That’s about as dumb as attacking PayPal for being a “conservative” action group…..
Bobby SCott’s not getting in.
Point well taken, I’d assume that there is a conservative version of ActBlue, right?
Would have made more sense from Allen’s point of view to have attacked union contributions.
Kaine wins. Thanks for shoveling shit on us RPV. Nothing like a genuine retread like to inspire dems to throw money at liberals who can bring in the bacon.
If we had a real conservative with a solid conservative voting record, everyone center right would fall in line and support the republican candidate. How about suggesting what Allen should say in his concession speech since afterll the RPV has pretty much chosen their king.
YOu know, Allen ought to worry about his own fundraising. Nobody ever thought Kaine was going be a pushover–and he hasn’t even filed his final report yet. Not a bad haul for his 1st quarter. Not bad at all.
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