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Posted on 10/17/2004 1:29:55 AM PDT by Jimbaugh
Boxer's opponent still unable to run campaign ads on TV
By Erica Werner ASSOCIATED PRESS
October 16, 2004
WASHINGTON – Sen. Barbara Boxer has raised $16 million for her campaign for a third Senate term, compared with $6.2 million for Republican opponent Bill Jones, according to campaign finance reports filed yesterday.
AdvertisementThe Federal Election Commission reports show Boxer, D-Calif., who has begun to spend heavily on television ads, with $1.4 million cash on hand as of Sept. 30. Jones had $838,000.
Though he has been trailing in polls, Jones managed to raise more money than Boxer during the most recent fund-raising quarter. He pulled in $2.4 million from July 1 to Sept. 30, versus $1.8 million for Boxer.
But the money was not enough to erase Jones' financial disadvantage or allow him to begin airing TV ads. Jones pledged in July to spend $2 million of his own money on the campaign, but he hasn't done so yet, and yesterday he refused to say when he would.
Boxer, meanwhile, has reserved TV ad time through Nov. 2.
In an interview yesterday, Jones' senior strategist, Ed Rollins, didn't bother trying to sound optimistic. He said Jones would need to spend not just $2 million but $5 million to open a path to victory – a sum that he said the candidate had promised, though Jones only ever said $2 million publicly.
"I don't know of any campaign in California that's ever been won statewide when you haven't been on television, and we are not on television," Rollins said. "And if we're going to go on television – you saw our report – obviously the only money to go on television is Bill's money, and he's got to make that decision."
A week of TV ads in California costs as much as $2 million.
"I've asked him and asked him, and he knows where we are," Rollins said. "The decision is now his."
The Boxer campaign also was waiting to see what Jones would do.
"The big remaining question in the race is: Will Bill Jones use his personal fortune to put TV ads on the air, or will he change his mind?" said Boxer campaign manager Rose Kapolczynski, adding that Boxer wasn't taking victory for granted.
"She's fighting for every vote," Kapolczynski said.
Jones, California's former secretary of state, said in an interview that it was still his intention to spend $2 million, but he didn't answer directly when asked whether he might spend $5 million.
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Ed Rollins is the same guy who put the screws to Bill Simon Campaign. He was the guy who gave Simon the OK to use the photo of Gray Davis taking the check at a government office., (It turned out to be a fake)
Ed Rollins should never get another job in any Republican campaign.
The enemy is within the gates.
Screws !!!!
Once again, the Evil Party wins by default thanks to the Stupid Party.
Why did he hire Rollins??
Toni Casey's numbers were even lower than Howard Kaloogian's.
Personally, I don't think we'll ever defeat Boxer so long as we keep offering nothing but Democrat Lite.
The only problem is, the stupid party isn't.
I have yet to figure out what the game is, but it is clear after Simon and now Jones, that the stupid party is sly as a fox achieving exactly what they want to achieve, and not achieving exactly what they don't.
The rank and file conservatives have been completely sold out by California's republican leadership, and I use that last term rather loosely. There is no leadership. There is only kaos and interference.
Toni Casey's numbers were low because she was completely unknown.
She has the positions to win in CA, and Arnold could have made her an overnight star.
The main point is he is MIA now for the candidate he endorsed.
Toni Casey? Where you her campaign manager or something? The same Toni Casey who was never elected to anything higher than city council in tiny Los Altos Hills? Toni Casey who was a Democrat until three and a half years ago? Can't you at least bring up Rosario Marin?
They must be related to a cat I had once. That thing would do the dumbest things and then walk away with the posture of, "I meant to do that."
The rank and file conservatives have been completely sold out by California's republican leadership, and I use that last term rather loosely. There is no leadership. There is only kaos and interference.
On this we agree completely. It's time to shake up the party from the top down...'cause baby, the California GOP is blowing it...big-time.
Her numbers were also low because she had no practical experience...and she was a Democrat only until recently. That doesn't inspire confidence in the voters.
Conservativism can only flourish when the Republican party is viable in the state. When you can't even win an election against the liberal party, you want to be as "moderate" as possible. There is just no room for conservatives on the statewide ballot in the CAGOP right now.
Toni Casey was unknown because she was on Los Altos Hills city council. There are other more prominent Democrat women that could be convinced to run for Republican senator. What about Anna Eshoo? She has the "positions to win" in California, and at least someone has heard of her and she has a track record.
How would you know whether a conservative could win in the state? It's been decades since anyone tried it.
I remember a republican party that refused to help with prop 187, and several others because they were devisive and couldn't possibly win.
Prop 13 was something that Jarvis and his team drove through. Did the republican party champion that? I seriously doubt it.
When the rank and file determined to retire Rose Bird and her cronies from the State Supreme Court, did the republican party leadership take a leading role? Did they drive that through?
Frankly, the republican party leadership of California probably couldn't name 1 tenet of what conservatism is.
The truth is, if our conservative values were explained well, and the candidate were to have adhered to conservative values his whole political life, and the party were to fund that individual commensurate with the stature that this state could hold in the nation for conservatism, I think we could win.
As it is, conservative values are seldom preached, so many moderates just dismiss what they think conservatives are. At this rate we might just as well turn the state over to some foreign nation. Perhaps that nation would cherish California's assetts. At this time the only assetts cherished in our state by the republican leadership, are the ones beneath them when they sit down.
I couldn't agree more.
Do you live in California? The reason Republicans are doing poorly in California is because their organization is so bad, not because of their positions. How do you explain the fact that Bruce McPherson did so badly in 2002. He was way to the left of Simon and McClintock, but did much worse. And explain to me why liberal republican Tom Campbell lost by 20% to Dianne Feinstein. If what you say is really true, Campbell should have been the dream candidate. Instead he lost about as badly as possible, worse than any of the conservatives.
The purist stuff is just bunk. And you obviously don't know what the democrats do, because they don't do what you said. For example, they won't let any pro-life candidate run at all. They turned down an ideal young hispanic candidate is Southern California, who could self-finance, just because he didn't meet their abortion litmus test.
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