January 19, 2006
What's going on at the Bell Campaign?
By Katie Naranjo
Money, endorsements, and travel has kept this Harris county native busy as the primary nears. Looking at the TEC reports Bell is looking ahead of the game with his $500,000 in the bank, compared to the Gammage team’s $60,000 banked. Bell is also riding high on some recent endorsements, mainly endorsements coming from pro-choice advocates. Bell seems to be building up mojo for the primary on
Mar.7th after his streams of high profile endorsements and a powerful speech at the SDEC meeting in Galveston.
Another interesting step in grassroots campaigning...Bell has started a student webpage so college and high school students can get involved with the campaign. The site called The Student Union, allows students to request Bell speaking appearances, literature, and information about the campaign. Check it out students.
Bell is also planning a press conference in front of the Alamo in San Antonio due to a major increase of support from the San Antonio area. The press conference is tomorrow Friday Jan. 20th at noon to celebrate new endorsements from the area. Bell is also scheduled to travel throughout the Valley area in the upcoming weeks due to his support in the Hispanic community.
Side Note: The Bell campaign has raised over 70,000 just from the website donation page. The traditional campaign methods are changing. That's about all folks...will post more as it comes.
Posted by Katie Naranjo at January 19, 2006 09:24 PM
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Isn't Damon the one who is supposed to post Bell's talking points?
Bell has half a million in the bank? How come news reports say he has $165,000?
Chris Bell has $165,000 in the bank, not $500,000, according to his most recent report. What's worse in he spent over half the month he raised in the last half of the year, on what, who knows. He should be saving his money to spend when people are actually thinking about voting. Hell, he's been campaigning for one year longer than Gammage but only has $100,000 more than him. Texas is a really big state. That $165K isn't going to get him very far.
And where is Kinky's filing? It isn't available on the TEC website. Some of us intending to give him our signature, and possibly our vote, would like to see who gave what.
Bell doesn't have enough money to run a credible primary race for State Senate (or State Representative in many districts.) I bet Chip Staniswalis could build a $165,000 "war chest."
