Hovde Spent $4M Out of Pocket for His Campaign
Baldwin leading Democratic candidates in campaign fundraising with $2.2 million raised.
With campaign finance information being released, here's an update on the race to be the next U.S. senator from Wisconsin.
GOP candidate Eric Hovde — while he isn't leading the pack in fundraising — has spent nearly $4 million of his own money on the campaign, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday.
Among all five candidates, the Journal Sentinel also reported Democratic hopeful Tammy Baldwin is leading the pack in fundraising, with $2.2 million raised in the second quarter.
These reports come after some TV ad sparring between Hovde and fellow Republicans Tommy Thompson and Mark Neumann, along with some Washington D.C.-based political action committees jumping into the fray.
jose
11:16 am on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
How much did the Dairy Queen Herb Kohl spend to buy this seat?
Steve ®
12:05 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Last ellection Candidate self-financing $5,282,800 (94%)
James R Hoffa
11:52 am on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
@Charles Gorney / Patch editors:
Stop the presses - Hovde is spending his own money on his campaign?!?!
Why is this the headline? Shouldn't all candidates believe in themselves enough to be willing to invest their own money in their campaigns for public office?
How much of her own money is Baldwin putting into her campaign?
Why tell us how much one candidate is putting into their own campaign, but then NOT provide the same information for the rest of the candidates?
Steve ®
12:03 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
According to this she has spent nothing of her own money.
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00004367
Hovde puts up 4 million of his own money in a highly contested seat. Pretty impressive.
James R Hoffa
12:10 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
So then, if Baldwin doesn't believe in herself enough to put her own money where her mouth is, then why should anyone in their right mind be willing to support her?
Steve ®
12:25 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
(D)
David Tatarowicz
1:46 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
@JRH Please note that Hovde did NOT GIVE this money to his campaign --- he LENT the money to the campaign.
This is why so many very rich people have taken a chance on politics --- because of the Supreme Court ruling, they are not limited to what they can put in of their own money --- but they lend it to their campaign, and hope they are elected so they can hold fundraisers and pay themselves back.
This is not just Republicans, Democrats do it as well, although Kohl does not hold fundraisers to get his money back, but he is an exception.
James R Hoffa
2:05 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Why does Baldwin's campaign finance report show that her campaign received $28,035 from the public University of Wisconsin system?
Isn't this illegal?
Steve ®
2:50 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
I saw that, nice funneling effect there. 100% of that is individual donations, so employees or ones connected I guess. They fill out their organization but money is donated from personal funds? Am I surprised? No, scratch my back i'll scratch yours with some tax payer money.
Pat Roberts
7:20 pm on Tuesday, July 24, 2012
I know if he has 4-million to spend on a campaign, he can't have any idea what it is like being me and there is no way he can posibly know how to represent me.
Greg
1:37 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Does it really say this under the headline, "Baldwin leading Democratic candidates in campaign fundraising with $2.2 million raised."???
Greg
1:39 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Hoffa, I've got fifty bucks that Baldwin gets the most Democratic votes.
Bren
1:53 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Well it certainly shows he wants the job. One of the things I like about Herb Kohl is that he's not beholden to special interests. I'm tired of candidates and officials who are compromised by special interest dollars (both parties).
James R Hoffa
2:02 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
@Bren -
Well then, you must like Hovde more than Baldwin then, yes?
Steve ®
2:51 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
checkmate
Bren
3:05 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
No, I don't share his views. But since this is a majority-rule country I embrace the idea that both parties (and independents) put forward their "best and brightest." Since we all have to live with the results.
James R Hoffa
4:50 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
@Bren -
But Tammy Baldwin is receiving more direct money from special interests than any of the Republican candidates. So, how exactly do you reconcile this very real fact? Isn't she being compromised by special interest dollars? At least Hovde is spending mostly his own money, out of a belief in himself to do what's right for the American people.
Keith Schmitz
3:33 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The difference is that Hovde is in this to enrich himself and his buddies. And please, be a moron and come back to claim that is what is Herb did.
James R Hoffa
2:11 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
How is it possible that a Democratic candidate is out-fundraising Republican candidates if Citizens United gave the campaign finance advantage to the GOP?
Looks like that MS-NBC LIE has been effectively debunked!
Steve ®
2:52 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
You can now drop the MS part maybe they will once and for all replace it with BS
Keith Schmitz
3:31 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
No Steve, that would be FOX, and "news" source that has been proven to be less informative than watching paint dry.
Steve ®
3:37 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
What an amazing comeback. Did you think of that all by yourself? You must be using the big boy bed now congrats!
Bren
3:22 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Eric Hovde is receiving support in an unknown denomination from the pro-Tea/GOP super PAC "FreedomWorks for America," founded in 2004 as the child of Empower America and Citizens for a Sound Economy, "an industry-funded think tank promoting deregulation and funded in large part by the Koch brothers." (Source: http://www.iwatchnews.org/node/8350/). Here's the FreedomWorks webpage for Hovde: http://www.freedomworksforamerica.org/candidate/eric-hovde.
I am savoring this sentence from the "About" page on FreedomWorks: "FreedomWorks for America (FWFA) is focused on spearheading bottom-up grassroots campaigns..." By its own description, astroturf. You can't make this stuff up! ; )
James R Hoffa
4:46 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Tammy Baldwin is receiving support in unknown denominations from pro-LGBT and ultra liberal super PACs. One in particular called "LPAC," was founded in 2012 by Laura Ricketts, the billionaire co-owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball franchise. Other groups include HRC and the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund. (Source: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/07/11/514385/new-lesbian-super-pac-will-champion-gay-and-womens-rights/). Here's the Gay and Lesbian Vitctory Fund page for Baldwin: http://www.victoryfund.org/endorsed_candidates/profile/candidate:520
I am savoring this sentence from the "About" page on the HRC website: "Founded in 1980, HRC advocates on behalf of LGBT Americans, mobilizes grassroots actions in diverse communities, invests strategically to elect fair-minded individuals to office and educates the public about LGBT issues." By its own description, astroturf. You can't make this stuff up! ; )
$$andSense
11:37 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
DOOF!!
Keith Schmitz
3:30 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
And now Jimmy you are not going to claim you are a homophobe or that there are no homophobes in the GOP.
If you say so Jimmy.
Rick
7:51 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
This election is about directions that we want to go as a country. Do we move toward the socialist economic model that has proven to work so well in places like Greece, Spain, Italy, Cuba and the USSR? Or do we move back toward smaller government and free market with more personal responsibility for our own financial future?
Regardless of who the republican candidate is... they are going to me more center right to very conservative and will help insure the change of direction we need.
Tammy is so beholding to special interests that she can only represent the people that paid for her campaign. And most of them don’t live in Wisconsin.
To me the choice is intuitively obvious to the casual observer. nuf said.
Keith Schmitz
3:29 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Rick talks about the socialist economic model "proven to work so well" in various countries, and then talks about smaller government, but doesn't say whether or not it works well.
Maybe because it doesn't. And never has. So the right is asking to give what Romney is peddling yet another shot. Lather, rinse, repeat.
As much as these guys plead for a free market economy which has never worked, why don't they sell us on the idea that it can work, rather than employing their usual game plan of peddling lies, fanning fear, appealing to bigotry and suppressing the vote.
It would be damned refreshing for once.
Greg
4:02 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Strange, the left is also employing their usual game plan of peddling lies, fanning fear, appealing to bigotry and suppressing the vote.
Just ask Mike Tate.
Terry
5:10 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
Don't forget promoting class warfare as well Greg... That whole divide and conquer thing.
Dirk Gutzmiller
11:42 am on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Rick - What country do you want the U.S. to be more like?