Posted on 01/31/2022 5:41:39 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
Republican businessman Kevin Rinke has more money to spend on his 2022 gubernatorial campaign than his GOP rivals, but James Craig collected more donations from supporters.
Campaign finance statements filed Monday show Rinke gave his own campaign $2 million, technically making him the top fundraiser between Oct. 21 and Dec. 31, 2021. However, Rinke only raised $4,938 from other donors. Craig led the Republican field with $607,830 in donations from supporters.
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer reported raising $2.53 million for her re-election campaign in the last months of 2021. She had $9.9 million total to spend at the end of the year, more than all of the Republican candidates combined.
Rinke reported having $1.4 million to spend on his campaign at the start of the year. He’s the only Republican candidate to cross the million-dollar threshold for available spending. Rinke, who earned a fortune by owning several car dealerships, pledged to spend $10 million of his own money on his candidacy.
Craig, the former chief of police for Detroit, raised half as much during this reporting period compared to the previous one. His campaign also ran a deficit, spending $120,903 more than it raised. Craig had $845,970 to spend at the start of 2022.
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Not nearly enough - not just with regard to primary but he needs a sizeable war chest of millions to take on Whitmer if he were to win the nomination.
If money really worked, they wouldn’t be focusing on cheating and stealing so much! Ask Jeb what his millions got him against Trump? Big bowl of uber humiliation, and Trump spent nothing much to beat Hitlery .
I wouldn’t worry about November 2022 apart from avoiding the 2010-type gaffes that the Corporate Media will blow out of national proportion. But I think that as long as the Todd Akin (RIP) sort aren’t talking about “acceptable rape” or whatever, any hide-in-the-basement GOP nominee for statewide office will win easily in the Rat cheater swing states- because the “independent” vote in MI, PA, AZ, etc. is going to tear Bye-den a new one.
Jeb spent much of his war chest attacking the other Republicans in the primary with the strategy that no one was actually going to vote for Trump and therefore if all of the other Republicans were destroyed, he wins.
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