In her first quarterly filing, Buerkle didn't even cross the six-figure threshold, reporting just $65,150 in contributions and ending the quarter with $110,672 in the bank. She still holds onto $15,000 in debt, the same she had at the end of the year.
One of the weaker fundraising among House Republicans this quarter came from freshman Rep.Ann Marie Buerkle (R-N.Y.), who scored one of the most surprising upsets in last year's midterms.
In her first quarterly filing, Buerkle didn't even cross the six-figure threshold, reporting just $65,150 in contributions and ending the quarter with $110,672 in the bank. She still holds onto $15,000 in debt, the same she had at the end of the year.
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has slashed the once-imposing debt it held by 60 percent in just three months and is now just $8 million in the red after having $19.5 million in debt this January. Former Rep. Carol Shea Porter (D-N.H.) announced Thursday that she will run again for the seat that she lost last year to Rep. Frank Guinta (R).
"During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust," Shea-Porter wrote in an e-mail to supporters. Democrat Kathy Hochul will report raising over $350,000 through March 31 for the special election next month in New York's 26th District.
While the Erie County Clerk wasn't selected as her party's nominee until March 19, she had been raising money for a potential bid during nearly all of March through donations on her website. She filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission on March 8 and a statement of organization on March 11. Freshman Rep. Nan Hayworth (R-N.Y.) will report raising over $330,000 in the first quarter of 2011, according to figures obtained by Hotline On Call.
Thorough the end of March, Hayworth has raised $330,406 and has $332,780 cash on hand. According to a Republican aide who tracks campaigns, it's one of the most impressive first quarter hauls for a freshmen. A group of Democratic House campaign veterans are forming their own independent expenditure group aimed at countering the influence conservative groups played last cycle in congressional elections.
Spearheaded by a trio of former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee operatives, the House Majority PAC is launching this week with the goal to help win the back the House for Democrats. It's part of a larger effort of Democratic-aligned groups for the 2012 cycle, who were largely caught off-guard in 2010 by the heavy-spending of GOP-aligned groups such as American Crossroads. What's atop on Jon Huntsman's agenda when he leaves China as U.S. ambassador at the end of this month? Two speaking engagements at universities in South Carolina and New Hampshire.
The former Utah governor will be the commencement speaker at the University of South Carolina's arts, sciences and honors colleges graduation on May 7. That's just two days after the first GOP debate, which is scheduled for May 5 in Greenville, S.C. COLUMBIA, S.C.—You can call it the make-or-break state. Or maybe, in honor of one recent winner there, the decider.
Ever since 1980, when South Carolina moved its Republican presidential primary toward the front of the party’s calendar, the state has never failed to pick the eventual GOP nominee. State Republicans say they expect nothing less this year—even if the putative front-runner, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, has signaled that he may downplay the state. Former Rep. John Adler (D-N.J.) has died following complications from recent heart surgery, according to media reports.
The 51-year old former lawmaker, who was defeated for reelection last November by Republican Jon Runyan, had emergency heart surgery last month after contracting staph bacterial endocarditis, according to Greenberg Traurig, the Garden State law firm he joined this year. The final ballot for the May 24 special election in New York's 26th District has been set - and it won't feature David Bellavia.
The Iraq War veteran's effort to petition onto the ballot -- after unsuccessfully seeking the Republican nomination for the seat -- as an independent candidate was rejected Friday by the New York Board of Elections after he failed to submit the required paperwork to run on a "Federalist Party" line. |
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