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To: TexasNative2000
"outspent $34 million to $4 million"

Just how honest is this statement anyway? I suspect that the $34 million is conveniently overstated, and I also suspect that the $4 million is significantly understated. My guess is that there is a LOT of union money that is left out of this equation. Any figures on this?
19 posted on 06/06/2012 6:57:57 AM PDT by AaronInCarolina
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To: AaronInCarolina; bergmeid
"outspent $34 million to $4 million"

Like you, I doubt this is an accurate figure. However, if that's the number they want to use, I'll throw it right back at them. They can't have it both ways - either they raised a pitiful amount or they are lying.

29 posted on 06/06/2012 7:03:24 AM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Jimmy Carter's incompetence + Richard Nixon's paranoia = Barack Obama)
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To: AaronInCarolina
Just how honest is this statement anyway? I suspect that the $34 million is conveniently overstated, and I also suspect that the $4 million is significantly understated.

Doesn't matter. If you start a fight, you'd better be sure you have (or have access to) the resources to win. The resources governor Walker mustered to fight them off, at whatever level, is his own business, and they have no one to blame but themselves.

That being said, part of their problem stems from the amount of money the unions had already spent leading up to this recall. Also, the fact that the DNC and the administration refused to get involved. They were on their own. Not a way to win a fight. Just ask Custer...

37 posted on 06/06/2012 7:22:00 AM PDT by bcsco
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To: AaronInCarolina; bergmeid
"outspent $34 million to $4 million"

Here is a post I made earlier regarding this hellacious fallacy....

The demoRATs & media keep harping on how Scott Walker raised $31 million (or $34 million....the number keeps fluctuating) to fight against the recall. But last year the unions & dimTurds spent $45 million to recall 6 Repub senators, plus trying to vote in libturd Joanne Kloppenberg as WI Supreme Court judge vs David Prosser.

And the estimates I recall reading for the recalls this year were that the unions (WI state & national unions) had $61 million that they allocated to recall Walker, Kleefisch & the 4 Repub state senators.

So in total, I would say between last year & this year, the demoRATs & unions spent $106 million on wasted recall campaigns. I for one, am thankful & overjoyed that we kicked the crap out of the demoRATS & unions.

57 posted on 06/06/2012 12:06:41 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: AaronInCarolina

The $4 million is what Barrett raised for the past Quarter. It does not include what was spent by outside groups on either candidate’s message. Walker has raised $31 million or so since last year. He raised $5 million or so in the last Quarter.


62 posted on 06/06/2012 6:21:49 PM PDT by rabidralph
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