Posted on 08/17/2009 9:44:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Former eBay CEO outspends San Francisco mayor in gubernatorial campaign as well
Mayor Gavin Newsom isn't as popular on Twitter as many suspected.
The social-networking loving mayor is trailing far behind several of his fellow gubernatorial candidates in campaign contributions received, according to a new study.
California's Fair Political Practices Commission released how much declared candidates for state offices, including governor, raised for their campaigns during the first six months of 2009. And the study shows Mayor Newsom is trailing the queen of campaign fundraising, Republican candidate Meg Whitman, by a huge margin.
The former eBay CEO received $10,813,933 from Jan. 1 to June 30, 2009, according to the study. By comparison, Newsom only raised $1,710,949. Whitman actually outspent Newsom's campaign by $6,154,147 to $1,342,181.
The mayor made a strong push to raise funds online, and to draw young voters, via social networking sites Twitter and Facebook. Newsom also visited Facebook's Palo Alto headquarters shortly after declaring his candidacy for governor on Twitter.
And just last month Newsom lost the brains behind his online campaign and his longtime political strategist Eric Jaye because of a "fundamental difference in how to run the campaign."
The mayor is also trailing Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, who raised $4,542,885.
The commission's staff collected the data from reports filed with the Federal Elections Commission. The study shows that more than $60 million dollars was raised for races across the state, some still up to five years away.
Do you think she will be more conservative than the Ahnold?
Yes. But how much remains to be seen.
Absolutely!
She is anti gun and pro abortion and the choice of Mitt Romney so she sucks.
Everybody loves a winner.
This is going to be such an interesting election.
Arnold’s anti gun and pro abortion, too, as far as I can tell.
I don’t laugh out loud often when reading FR, but you really got me there.
To a national media that is largely gay-run, Newsom is some kind of hero, like Harvey Milk has been made to be, and he will get portrayed that way....
Terrified Taxpaers.
I recall swallowing bile and defending McCain against Obama and Obama/Hillary and Obama in the end. Would give my right arm, probably a lot more, to now have McCain in office and not what we’re dealing with today. Didn’t actually realize how bad it would actually be when I almost wept on election night.
I don’t know if what you say about her stances is true and will need to find out. I have heard it before. She does, however, have some rather remarkable experience in the business world. That’s something we’re lacking in spades right now at every level, and that, in my view, gives her a very big leg up over her opponent.
To the extent her positions are at odds with ours, at the very least I know she MIGHT be turned in her views. McCain might have been turned. What hope do we have turning a bona fide ideological liberal from his/her agenda? I promise you, Obama and a good majority of other like-minded leftists will go to their graves without substantive compromise they can skate past. Especially when they own the reins of power.
Now THAT was good! :^D
Doesn’t make a lot of difference. Jerry Brown will enter the race and win...again.
Let me get this straight, we are to jump on board for this woman and help her defeat any one to the right of her in our own primary?
.. but can she win a primary?
“Let me get this straight, we are to jump on board for this woman and help her defeat any one to the right of her in our own primary?”
I plan on voting the most conservative candidate in the primary. I hope we have one.
Who is running against her ? If its her in the general against Newsom she definatly has my vote.
“Jerry Brown will enter the race and win...again.”
Well beam me up,I so hope your wrong but it wouldn’t suprise me,
Moonbeam............ahggg
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