Nancy Pelosis fundraising breaks $25 million for 2017

[demmiblue]

Source: The Washington Post

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has raised nearly $26 million for her party in 2017, a significant leap for a non-election year, according to fundraising figures furnished by the California Democrat’s political team.

Most of Pelosi’s $25.9 million haul was directed toward the coffers of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which will be leading the party’s quest to take back the House in 2018. Pelosi has sent the group $24.7 million this year as opposed to $14 million she raised for the DCCC in the same period two years ago, in the last congressional “off year.”

Pelosi’s efforts have come as she has faced mounting criticism from a handful of her fellow Democrats who criticized the party’s inability to gain more than a handful of seats in last year’s House elections — a drumbeat that returned after Democrats didn’t win a closely watched and heavily contested special election in Georgia last month.

In the immediate aftermath, Pelosi pointed to her prodigious fundraising as one reason for her continued service as the Democrats’ top leader in the House. Her political operation counts $593.8 million in fundraising attributable to Pelosi since she entered the House leadership in 2002.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/07/31/nancy-pelosis-fundraising-breaks-25-million-for-2017/?utm_term=.8bdf808d0530

[George II]

1. Good to see that she's sending most of her funds to the DCCC, that's what good Democrats do...

...and I realize you're just posting the article (so not criticizing you), but Democrats have to realize that a single Representative in the House, even the leader, has very little effect on House elections around the country. Blaming her for the "loss" of the Georgia seat, which wasn't a loss anyway, it was a republican seat for decades, is counter productive.

[shenmue]

2. Take that, whiners

[JCanete]

8. ugh...no, this is actually one of the problems we have with the way we keep trying to play this game

Nobody questions the DNC leadership's ability to bring in money. Where that money comes from matters and affects our policy. Sure, this makes tepid status-quo challengers like Tim Ryan seem silly, but as much as I might like Pelosi this doesn't change the game at all. This keeps the game the same, and we will continue to lose if we do that.

[Kolesar]

10. Fundraising is her forte' ... eom

[Justice]

3. "a handful of her fellow Democrats" seems like a nothingburger to me!

[Progressive dog]

4. K&R

[riversedge]

5. Thanks for all the hard work you do Nancy Pelosi

[Scarsdale]

6. So? tRump has

raised more than that for his tRump enterprises, despite being banned !! He does as he pleases, without any restraints. Making money for the family as usual. Now all his vacations are paid for by taxpayers, free golf trips for the Orange Shitgibbon.

[kimbutgar]

7. They should spend that money putting up billboards all over the midwest

Like the one in Kentucky against McConnell and the Duncan hunter on in Southern California and I'd like to see one against rohbacher stating he is a Russian operative. Highlight the rethug candidates negatives on these billboards.

[mcar]

9. She is a great leader!