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As he gears up for a difficult re-election cycle, Rep. Steve Kings campaign is strapped for cash. Individual donations to the Iowa Republican have continued to flow but support from corporate donors and Kings own colleagues have vanished entirely.
King has not received a single contribution this year from a political action committee associated with a sitting member of Congress. Corporate PACs and interest groups have also completely shunned him. Through the first six months of the year, King received just two contributions from third party political entities: $2,000 donations from PACs associated with two former members of Congress, Lamar Smith (R-TX) and the infamous Todd Akin (R-MO).
It is a remarkable though not entirely unpredictable abandonment of a sitting member of Congress. Though he was always controversial and further to the right than most of his colleagues, King has burned virtually all his bridges in the party this year with outlandish comments about white supremacy and abortion.
But while those comments have made King a pariah in the partywith House Republican leaders stripping him of his committee assignmentsKing has refused to leave office. Now, as he faces the toughest campaign since he was first elected in 2002, he is doing so with a potentially catastrophic lack of resources. The $18,365 that Kings campaign had in the bank at the end of June was the least cash on hand hes ever reported after the first six months of a cycle.
FM123
(10,053 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Hope he goes away forever.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)he'd retire at the next election. He can't be so blind that he thinks he can win another election.
Cartoonist
(7,309 posts)Maybe he can ask his brother after an appropriate period of mourning.
GoCubsGo
(32,074 posts)Boomerproud
(7,940 posts)I will not celebrate yet.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)NewDayOranges
(692 posts)liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)rsdsharp
(9,137 posts)I doubt Storm Lake wants him, destitute or otherwise.
liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)Kiron is a very small spot
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Because it isn't like the good folks in IA-4 didn't realize he was a racist until last month.