[sickoflibs]

RE :The lack of financial firepower on Brat’s behalf may have been in part his fault – the largely unknown candidate, an economics professor at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., failed to show up to two gatherings of national conservative operatives and activists last month, citing finals.
.....But it’s worth noting that many of the national tea party groups that have been the most pugilistic about this year’s intra-party fights have not invested much money into helping the candidates on the ground. As we reported earlier this year, organizations such as Tea Party Patriots and the Madison Project are spending huge sums on fundraising, salaries and consultants, while just putting a tiny fraction of the millions of dollars they have raised into political expenditures.
The fact that Brat took off without the help of those organizations now makes it harder for them to claim his victory as their own.”

Interesting story

[mazda77]

This will eventually become the bigger story of the whole campaign. Jenny Beth Martin is all about JBM. I remember reading a story earlier this year stating that the paltry amount of funds that went to candidates was stunning compared to the amounts to went to “political professionals” and staff salaries. I view TPP and TPE to be nothing more than the same ass those heart string “charities” all over the tube.

[Impy]

Wait, “spending huge sums on fundraising”, that doesn’t make much sense. It’s costing them money to raise money? ;d