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Friday, July 13, 2007

This Just In - Jenkins Fundraising Numbers

According to Lynn Jenkins Campaign, she will report somewhere north of $300,000 (no exact number provided) raised in the second quarter with approximately $285,000 cash on hand.

Those are both impressive numbers for Jenkins as she has pulled within $16,000 of Ryun in the cash available to spend category.

Observations:

Will be interesting to know how much of Jenkins money is primary only money. Ryun reported that nearly all of his was.

Also, while I tagged Ryun for spending too much last quarter (I have a hunch some vendors may have held their bills for him from the first quarter until early April, which drove up second quarter spending), Jenkins spending is very low considering she seems to have paid staff and fundraising expenses to account for. Just as I believe Ryun probably was helped by bills that conveniently came in after April 1, I suspect Jenkins will have some bills for July that actually were to pay for earlier expenses.

That certainly doesn't take away anything from an impressive showing for Jenkins. She has certainly met the first important threshold of the race. The next test for her is whether she can sustain (or improve as Ryun did) in her next quarter of fundraising.

Can't wait to review each report in depth.

Also, I must say that so far $925,000 has been raised in just 6 months to oust Nancy Boyda. I'd say that's a pretty good reflection of the kind of job she's doing in (not) representing our interests. At this pace, Boyda would have nearly $4 million raised against her. Regardless of who emerges from this primary, our chances are good to retake this seat.

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Here's an alternative theory on the spending side of the campaign. Ryun is spending money to build organization, Jenkins is sitting on money to have a better report.

Looking forward to your in-depth report on where the money went.

Anonymous said...

Ryun was an incumbent for 10 years and now has to spend 100s of thousands to build an organization. Gee, can't figure why the hell he lost.

Anonymous said...

Ryun is in big, big trouble!

Anonymous said...

that may be why he lost, but if he's spending money on building a better organization and Jenkins isn't, who has the upper hand on winning next year? I don't think that means he's in big trouble, I think it means he's running a good campaign.

Anonymous said...

Ryun's report is out. Instead of having $300k on hand, he really only has about $220 because he still has over $80 to pay on his ginormous mailer. Based on the returns he appears to be going after national, retired, probably conservatives. Very little Kansas money. His poll could not possibly have been "substantial" as some had claimed it cost just under $9k -- best guess 400 sample, 20 questions.

Anonymous said...

Ryun appears to have a grand total of 24 contributors from KS-2 totaling just over $10K of his $350K raised. Not exactly stellar support from the district.

Anonymous said...

Ryun's press release said 1100 Kansas contributors. That means a ton of small donations.

Anonymous said...

I'd say that Ryun is no longer the frontrunner in the race. You've got to admit that Jenkins just pulled ahead.

Anonymous said...

The plan was for this fundraising report to push Jenkins out of the race. It didn't work. If anything, I think Ryun lost standing as frontrunner. Jenkins is in race for the distance.

I wouldn't be shocked if another candidate entered the race. The fundraising numbers are impressive, but Ryun no longer has a lock on nomination. I think that another conservative could build a strong campaign right now.

Anonymous said...

christ, jim- win this thing and give nancy the seat again!

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Anonymous said...

I bet Ryun's are spending most of their money of of the state. So maybe it is a good thing they aren't raising it in the state.

Anonymous said...

lynn took money from wish list and republican majority for choice - those are radical pro-abortion groups

Anonymous said...

Does Ryun take money from radical prolife organizations?

Anonymous said...

I don't want a Congressman who takes money from either prolife or prochoice. I think both sides have negative influence on politics. The abortion debate has spoiled political discourse.

Anonymous said...

Jim's the only candidate without a ton of debt...Lynn's loaned herself more than $100,000!

but, Boyda still has the most cash on hand.

Anonymous said...

actually, Jim is the only candidate with real debt. According to his report, he owes $85,000 more for bills from last quarter. Boyda and Jenkins have personal loans which they have no obligation to pay back.

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