Q2 fundraising at a glance
By Danny Reiter, PolitickerMD.com ReporterAs the filing deadline approaches for second quarter campaign fundraising reports, PolitickerMD.com has reported totals as the numbers have become available. Below are links to our complete coverage, broken down by races.
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If we are counting Andy Harris' $100K personal loan . . .
If we are counting Andy Harris' $100K personal loan to the campaign, then Dr. Harris bought the "cash on hand" race.
If not, the candidates are almost even "cash on hand". Coupling Dr. Harris' burn rate with Kratovil's tight-fisted spending mentality, Kratovil may actually be ahead in terms of "political dollars" with or without Dr. Harris' cooking the books.
I can't imagine that Frank Kratovil, a highly lauded, competitive college sportsman at Western Maryland (now McDaniel) College, would stoop to juice his numbers with a $100,000 loan. This is the second time Dr. Harris has "borrowed from Peter to pay Paul" to improve his campaign's "cash on hand" numbers.
The Harris-Meekins weirdness aside, the respective fundraising results are telling. Dr. Harris continues to receive the majority of his contributions from limited sources: Doctors and medical PACs, Big Tobacco, Big Oil, and Club for Growth and other right-wing agenda groups. Dr. Harris' fundraising team has not converted his primary victory to support from more mainstream business and other traditional Republican financial supporters. Where is all the Republican money?
Frank Kratovil has clearly expanded his fundraising circle from "family and friends" to statewide business leaders and national business and labor PACs.
The positive note for "presumptive underdog" Kratovil (moderate D running in an R-8 district) is that second quarter money begets third quarter money. He'll need it. Harris-Meekins is publicly talking about about at $1.2M media budget.
My lingering question: how far will Dr. Harris go into his personal funds to win this race?
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