Harris raises $430K in 2Q, $600K cash on hand

Bled Dry -

It's amazing how you O'Malley liberals invade our district and think you know what you are talking about. The First Congressional District gave Ehrlich 67% and Bush 62%. It IS conservative. We only voted for Wayne because the lesser of two evils compared to the goofballs the Dems had running. Just by the fact that you think Wayne got elected because he brought pork into the district or because he voted to allow us to "see more wildlife" is plain nuts. Andy Harris will represent us. He wants less government and he wants to fix this energy crisis. What's Kratovil want? He wants to go down to DC to "be an ally of Martin O'Malley". Well guess what...that may fly in PG County, but not here on the Shore or in the First Congresional District. One Martin O'Malley is more than enough...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

My WORD - my eyes are tearing up I'm laughing so hard!

It is a sad state of affairs in American politics when money supplants real debate about important issues. The media always focuses on fundraising, at the expense of getting information about where the candidates stand, and meaningful public discourse.

Andy Harris wants to be defined by his sense of inevitability, by his fundraising prowess; this is clearly indicated by the candidate’s smugness and, by all appearances, his outward belief that the 1st District owes him it’s seat in Congress. The only problem with the Harris campaign plan is that Frank Kratovil stands in the way, and he is proving to be a much bigger threat than anyone in the Harris camp thought he would be.

Kratovil’s own fundraising is looking up, right when it should, as election-day looms larger in the windshield. And Harris seems to forget that this is the same district that elected Wayne Gilchrest for the better part of two decades, yet somehow Harris thinks that, all of a sudden, it took a huge rightward swing, while for the most part, the rest of the entire country moved a smidge leftward, away from nearly a decade of failed Bush policies. Logic argues that Harris may find out how wrong his assumption was in November.

And the real question, the one that we aren’t going to get answered because we focus to much on fundraising is this: where does ‘fiscal conservative’ end and being a wise advocate for the district begin? Scores of federal programs have already been bled dry by eight years of Bush and five years of war: I suppose Harris now wants to come in and cut a little bit more. But the question remains, when the programs hit home, will Harris continue to spout an ideology, or will he go to the mat fighting for what his district needs.

The Shore gets millions for our wildlife refuges that support vibrant economy of hunting, fishing, and wildlife watching. We get millions for road projects that help our people get to where they work and play. So does Harris support such ‘pork barrel’ spending, or does he only oppose it when it is in someone else’s district? This whole fiscal conservative thing doesn’t hold much water, I don’t want an ideologue, I want a Representative. I can see why Dr. Harris is such a good anesthesiologist; his policy ideas put me to sleep.

Actually I don't think he does need to pay himself back. Technically candidates are allowed to spend whatever they want of their own money on their own campaign.

“[We] surpassed all of our internal goals,” said Chris Meekins, Harris’ campaign manager, in an interview with PolitickerMD.com. “We’re continuing to grow.”

Looks like what's growing is the size of Andy's loan to his campaign. Andy reached into his pocket yet again ON THE LAST DAY OF THE QUARTER to loan himself $100,000 so that his cash on hand looks better than it really is.

Maybe he doesn't know he needs to pay himself back, eh?

This is the kind of Tom DeLay and Karl Rove inspired chicanery that should have no place in Maryland's 1st District.

Geez, Louise, Andy, why not just loan yourself $1 million so your numbers REALLY look good.

Tool.