Valerie Plame raises nearly $450K for congressional bid last quarter

The Hill ^ | 10/14/19 | Rachel Frazin

[yesthatjallen]

Former CIA operative Valerie Plame, who has launched a Democratic run for Congress in New Mexico, raised nearly $450,000 last quarter, nearly double her total from the previous filing period.

Plame's campaign said in a Monday statement that it raised $446,749 between July 1 and Sept. 30 from more than 16,600 individual donors. The average donation was $26.87.

The campaign has raised a total of more than $683,000 since Plame announced she was running for Congress in May.

“It’s encouraging to see all the thousands of supporters who want to be a part of this team and agree with our message," Plame said in the statement. "I’m proud that we are doing this by sticking to our progressive values like refusing corporate PAC money and with an average contribution of less than $27.”

SNIP

[AndyJackson]

Another member of the circle of corruption in DC

[Zathras]

A fake spy passing fake news now runs for Congress.
They must not need her to head CNN.

[Skywise]

Huh... an ex-CIA spook running for congress as a Democrat.

Imagine that.

[CedarDave]

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[Lurkinanloomin]

I have a CIA reprobate representative.

It sucks, I advise this district to find somebody/anybody else.

[SERKIT]

She could become the fifth Socialist Spice Girl! Cool!

[LegendHasIt]

Hey, Dave... (or any NM political cognoscenti) I haven’t paid much attention to how much money NM congressional candidates usually raise these days; Is this $450K good, bad or average?

And I wonder if most of her money is coming from In-State idiots, or out of state leftists.

[fishtank]

AKA Northern Wokeland

[shelterguy]

Former CIA operative Valerie Plame,...................
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

She was never a spy. She worked at a desk at the CIA.
She had no protection from having her name in the paper.

The whole fake but accurate investigation was a sham. It could have been stopped immediately if not for W the Wuss rolling over.

[Kenny500c]

Large Dem donors have a scheme whereby they break large donations into small donations in order to claim many small donations and keeping the actual donated amount below limits.A scam in other words.

[CedarDave]

Here's some info from District 2 candidates:

"Claire Chase’s campaign reported Tuesday she has raised $510,790 in 35 days. That amount is more than former state lawmaker and fellow GOP opponent Yvette Herrell raised during the entire 2018 Republican primary."

"Torres Small became only the second Democrat to win the traditionally Republican-leaning district. Records show Torres Small has raised more than $1 million since January."

GOP congressional candidate reports fundraising jolt

BTW, I haven't decided who to vote for in next June's primary; I keep hoping that Steve Pearce will run again.

[LegendHasIt]

Thanks for the info Dave.

Me neither on who to vote for,...

I think Steve ‘screwed the pooch’ for the last time, looking for ‘a promotion’ again ... He could have been a ‘Congressman for Life’ if he had just stuck with that, but I have a feeling he has lost his ‘mojo’ with his disastrous Senate and Governor runs.

IMHO anyway.

[drypowder]

DC swampers can only be neutralized by their own demise. We don’t need any more stinking swampers in DC. There are way too many still there.

[dowcaet]

Former CIA Operative? Don’t you love the way the RATS enhance their resumes. Glorified office clerk is what she really was!

[Gay State Conservative]

If both she and the President win next year you won't be able to shut this dame up!

[Tammy8]

New Mexico is currently in rebellion against the socialists, I hope we are successful.

[LaRueLaDue]

So, does she even live in NM?

What in the hell is wrong with northern NM? You want a lying, ex-CIA agent as a representative? Really?

[Tammy8]

I hope he doesn’t. He is too nice, we need people with fire in every office from local school board to the top.

Nice no longer works.

[Tammy8]

She lives in Santa Fe, she has lived there for several years.

Santa Fe is a lot of what is wrong with Northern NM. Also the Navajo Nation usually votes dim. Navajos believe the dims when they promise them stuff- and you would think with how bad things are on the reservation they of all people would know socialism does not work in real life.