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Mon Jul 06, 2009 at 07:37 PM CDT
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| It's only the first day after the July 4th weekend and campaign finance reports don't technically have to be reported until mid month. But that's not stopping the teasing of fundraising numbers from candidates considering running statewide for various offices.
A brief collection of reports so far...
- Kay Bailey Hutchison released a YouTube video to say that she has 6,500 donors. No work if that is "to date" or "this quarter" or "total" or "in Texas". I suppose it's time for her to start diversifying from her multi-million transfers of cash from her federal account which made up most of her last report.
- Republican Ted Cruz, former Texas solicitor general, reports that he has now raised more than $1 million from over 500 donors across 20 states in a bid for Texas Attorney General. Of course, that's only in the event that incumbent Greg Abbott vacates the seat to run for, say, Lt. Governor which may or may not only happen if incumbent David Dewhurst gets appointed to or runs for Kay Bailey Hutchison's senate seat which may or may not become open depending on when or if she resigns her seat to run for Governor.
- According to Quorum Report, Republican Rep. Dan Branch of Dallas says he'll be reporting over $1 million on hand, having raised $600,000 in just seven days (from only 200 donors) during the limited amount of time post session he could fundraise. He's also maybe exploring a run for Attorney General with the same caveats as listed in the above point.
And lots more to come as we near July 15th. |
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