| As Michael pointed out earlier today, Bill White has a nice little stash of cash that he could transfer to a gubernatorial run. Shifting somewhere between half a million and a million dollars from certain mayoral accounts could give him around $5 million to enter the Texas Governor's race, not counting any burn of previous cash on hand, continued fundraising, or the fact that he can go back to a few thousand maxed out donors and ask for unlimited funds and raise a couple million more quickly.
White of course is not alone in transferring money from a Senate account as Sen. Hutchison has moved millions of hers, in fact having moved more money than White has raised so far. All in all, we are talking about million dollar numbers in the primary.
There are two public online fundraising drives in the Governor's race at the moment, one for Kay Bailey Hutchison and the other for Hank Gilbert, and the goals reflect what may soon become a widening challenge for Gilbert should he continue his primary bid for Governor.
First Hutchison...
Today is the last day for Kay's 100Kay Club's to reach it's goal. Join the many Texans from across the state that have already invested in a better Texas. By donating $10 today, you can become a member of Kay's 100Kay Club. Kay needs $5,000 more to continue her fight to bring results to Texas.
10 days for $100,000 (which she'll reach) for about $10,000 online a day. For comparison, Rick Noriega was raising about $6,000 online a day during his similar weeklong sustained and directed "Stamp Out Bush" fundraising drive in November of 2007.
And then Gilbert...
The situation is simple: We need $50,000 to help us get where we need to be by the end of the year. That's $50,000 in 32 days.
My campaign relies on a network of nearly 100,000 Texans like you to make us competitive. You are an essential part of my strategy to win the primary and beat Rick Perry next November. And now is the time when I need you to stand up and help me show the pundits and naysayers that a grassroots candidate CAN mount a competitive campaign that can win.
That's a directed sustained online fundraising drive for three times the time for one half the goal of Hutchison and works out to a little over $1,500 a day. He can reach that goal, but the challenge for Gilbert will not be about "making" his goal, but rather, is it enough to stay competitive in primary should he attempt to tangle with White and Shami (now that he's successfully taken helped terminate Tom Schieffer's cash-starved campaign). |
