The Arkansas Election Line — a collaboration of Talk Business, The Tolbert Report, and Blue Hog Report — announces the first of two changes in our analysis of U.S. Congressional races. In AR-02, the Election Line moves its rating from…
Tag: Fundraising
AR-01: Why One Crawford Donor Should Give You Pause
One of my favorite clichéd bits of wisdom is “tell me about your friends, and I will tell you about yourself.” (I am also partial to never get less than twelve hours sleep, never play cards with a guy who…
AR-01: Causey Raises Over $400K In Second Quarter
Via a press release from the Chad Causey camp: JONESBORO- Through a competitive six-way primary and hard-fought runoff election, Chad Causey raised over $416,000 dollars for the second quarter of 2010, building on the strong momentum the campaign started in…
AR-01, AR-02: DCCC Announces Second Round of R2B Candidates
Per today’s press release from the DCCC, Joyce Elliott and Chad Causey are both listed among the latest group of candidates who have qualified for the “Red To Blue Program.” These candidates earned a spot in the program by surpassing…
AR-Land Comm: When Rhetorical Questions Attack!
In yesterday’s Democrat-Gazette, Michael R. Wickline had a column comparing and contrasting L.J. Bryant and Monty Davenport. (The paper also endorsed Bryant…again.) The full text of the column is after the jump, and it is well worth a read, but…
AR-Sen: Halter Trumps Lincoln In April Fundraising
So sayeth Arkansas Business: LITTLE ROCK – Democratic Senate hopeful Bill Halter’s campaign says he raised nearly twice as much as Sen. Blanche Lincoln in April as the primary for her Arkansas seat approaches. Halter’s campaign announced Thursday he raised…
AR-Sen [Follow-Up]: Lincoln To Keep Goldman Donations
Remember the halcyon days of yesterweek when Blanche Lincoln gave a straightforward “no” when asked if she would return the Goldman Sachs’ campaign contributions? Remember how I wrote: [B]y playing the “they had paid off TARP” card as an excuse…
AR-02: [Follow-up] Let He Who Is Without Clerical Oversight Cast The First Stone
In response to David Boling’s statement regarding alleged FEC reporting violations by the Robbie Wills campaign, Wills’ campaign manager, Kyle Gott, issued a reply: Only three months removed from Washington, D.C., David Boling wants to attack a clerical oversight instead…
AR-02: Boling Says Wills' 1Q FEC Report Flawed
From the David Boling For Congress camp today we get the following statement: The Wills campaign did not disclose more than $2000 in fees to the Democratic fundraising website ActBlue, and it failed to memo contributions received from the site.…
AR-Sen [Follow-up]: Lincoln To Keep Goldman Donations
In a timely follow-up to my last post, Firedoglake reports that Blanche Lincoln will not return the donations her campaign received from Goldman Sachs despite the civil fraud lawsuit now pending against Goldman (and despite her earlier statement that, as…