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McConnell’s primary challenger raises $900,000
washingtonpost.com ^
| 1/16/14
| Aaron Blake
Posted on 01/16/2014 12:47:50 PM PST by cotton1706
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R) primary opponent, businessman Matt Bevin, raised $900,000 in the fourth quarter, according to his campaign.
About half of Bevin's total appears to have been raised by the Senate Conservatives Fund, which has endorsed his campaign and said this month that it had raised $450,000 for him. Bevin's campaign said about $430,000 of the total was raised with SCF's help.
The total doesn't include any self-funding from Bevin, who had previously loaned his campaign $600,000. His campaign did not release a cash-on-hand figure, but it had just $164,000 on hand at the beginning of October.
Bevin is very likely to be hugely outspent in the primary. McConnell already had $10.3 million in the bank at the beginning of October. He has not announced his fourth-quarter fundraising totals yet, and neither has Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, the leading Democratic candidate.
McConnell is one of several GOP incumbents being targeted in a primary this year. Others include Sens. Thad Cochran (Miss.), Pat Roberts (Kan.) and John Cornyn (Tex.).
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ditchmitch; elections; primarymcconnell
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To: cotton1706
Politics takes money. The Republic is in peril. The Founders pledged "our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor". What can we do? Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell in KY
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:49:40 PM PST
by
Paine in the Neck
(Socialism consumes everything)
To: cotton1706
Wow... makes my $100 seem kind of puny. :-(
But, I can donate TIME too... and, some experience as a campaign volunteer.
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:57:20 PM PST
by
SomeCallMeTim
( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
To: Paine in the Neck
I suggest we better be willing to pledge our lives and the lives of our families against their lives and the lives of their families.
That is what it always takes.
Study the war against communism in Spain back in the thirties and how narrowly the communists were defeated. Look at what it took to stop them.
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posted on
01/16/2014 1:02:28 PM PST
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: MrEdd
Study the war against communism in Spain back in the thirties and how narrowly the communists were defeated. Look at what it took to stop them.I have studies it and other communist take-overs and attempted take-overs. What is clear is that the left's will is always underestimated until it's too late to avoid physical confrontation. They cannot be stopped by reason. They cannot be stopped by political means. They cannot be stopped by legal process. They termite away at every foundational element of civil society until they cause the collapse they seek and then they climb up on the rubble of their creation and proclaim themselves "king of the hill".
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posted on
01/16/2014 1:09:30 PM PST
by
Paine in the Neck
(Socialism consumes everything)
To: cotton1706
McConnell is one of several GOP incumbents being targeted in a primary this year. Others include Sens. Thad Cochran (Miss.), Pat Roberts (Kan.) and John Cornyn (Tex.).Hey WaPo! Don't forget McCain's Mini me in South Carolina!
Go Lee Bright!
To: SomeCallMeTim
I'll be @ MB fundraiser tonight, kickin' in same.
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posted on
01/16/2014 1:27:11 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
To: cotton1706
I’ve contributed both to Bevin and The Senate Conservatives Fund separately. :-)
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posted on
01/16/2014 1:28:20 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Mohammed was a pedophile and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
To: Paine in the Neck
On average a successful Senate run takes $10 million dollars. That probably doesn’t include fighting a primary. (Just sayin’.)
To: MrEdd
Yes, but in those days Spain produced a leader. America has no leader. Further, there are not even a a potential leader on the horizon.
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posted on
01/16/2014 1:55:19 PM PST
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: cotton1706
If I could spare $9 Million for Bevin, I’d give it to him.
Mitch is a failure as an American and has to go
To: skinkinthegrass
I'll be @ MB fundraiser tonight, kickin' in same Let me know how it was... I REALLY wanted to go tonight, but... we're having a visiting choir sing at our church tonight... Couldn't make it to both. :-(
Matt was TERRIFIC on Terry Meiner's show today.
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posted on
01/16/2014 3:16:12 PM PST
by
SomeCallMeTim
( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
To: SomeCallMeTim
got there late, MB talked about many issues his campaign is built on..his honesty, his efforts to engage on the grassroots level, local organization keeping the citizenry involved. Talked about
plug-ins, small things to reach out to all the citizenry..nothing was unimportant. Made comparison between his platform and McConnells'...my words..lack there of, (seems MM; is playing it safe, dumb move! :)
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:34:55 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
To: skinkinthegrass
I wonder how many FReepers are crying about the TEA Party putting up challenges to GOPes
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:35:51 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: Paine in the Neck
Leftists live and breathe for their politics, everything is about politics to them. Everything
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:37:13 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: PATRIOT1876
If Mitch loses the primary you can bet the GOPe will not be sending too many dollars to Bevin.
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:38:17 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: GeronL
none, that I've heard of..please explain.
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:38:25 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
To: skinkinthegrass
I was just wondering. There are freepers who implore us to vote for whatever RINO they nominate, do they ever show up on the Bevin and Lee Bright threads?
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:39:22 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: GeronL
hmm, how many of those are sucking from the Federal Sow?
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:40:41 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
To: skinkinthegrass
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posted on
01/16/2014 8:41:19 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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