Senate Dems take in TWICE As Much $$$$ as Republicans In June

[AtomicKitten]

A good sign.

from http://americablog.blogspot.com/
on edit, I apparently dupe'd welshTerrier2 (sorry) at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2733250

From the DSCC:

SENATE DEMS DOUBLE GOP IN JUNE FUNDRAISING

GOP June Fundraising Falls Surprisingly Short Of Expectations – NRSC Claimed It Raised $12 Million At Bush Gala But Only Raised $4.8 Million For Entire Month

DSCC Builds On Cash Advantage Over NRSC For Fifth Straight Quarter

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) raked in $8.8 million in June, almost double the $4.8 million that its GOP counterpart brought in for the same month. The DSCC has raised a whopping $73 million for the 2006 campaign cycle and has nearly $38 million in the bank, almost twice as much as what the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has in its coffers.

“Throughout the country, people are looking for a new direction and are looking to the Democrats,” DSCC Chairman Chuck Schumer said. “Our fundraising success reflects a deep desire for change and recognition that the best way to get things back on track is by electing more Democrats to the Senate.”

The DSCC said that its cash on hand advantage will be a major asset going forward into the homestretch of the 2006 midterms. “More money in the bank means more resources to help spread our message of change,” Schumer said.

In June, the NRSC raised only $4.8 million despite claiming that it had raised at least $7 million more at a single event with the President that month. The media accounts following a Bush-headlined fundraiser for the NRSC and its House counterpart reported that the GOP Senate committee expected to bring in $12 million just from that one event.

[LeftCoast]

1. Not to mention, the Repukes LIED about their bad numbers!

I know, I know...I shouldn't have been surprised to hear that the Republicans lied, but I have to admit I've never heard them do this before (out and out lie about fund-raising totals I mean). Methinks, they're getting a wee bit desperate.

[Robbien]

2. A double-edged sword

While it is good for election chances, now the lobbiests will have a stronger hold over the Democrats.

[AtomicKitten]

3. What makes you think this is exclusively corporate $$$ ???

Everybody I know - people, not corporations - are giving til they bleed.

[welshTerrier2]

4. copy kitten ... copy kitten ...

check this out: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2733250

just kidding !!

this is hugely important ...

[AtomicKitten]

6. doh!

Things are moving at a rapid clip at DU today ... sorry I dupe'd you.

I gave you props in my OP though if that helps!!

10-4.

[welshTerrier2]

7. pas necessaire ...

your headline was much better ...

[gratuitous]

5. And the GOP lied about their numbers

The GOP was breathlessly reporting, and the Washington Post (shocking, I know) was just as breathlessly parroting, that in one June fundraising appearance, George W. Bush had brought in $12 million for the national Republican party. Well, even if you read it in the Post, it ain't necessarily so, because the GOP is now reporting they raised only $4.8 million total in June. What happened to that whopper of a fundraiser Bush hosted? Did $7 million just disappear, or were they . . . Well, we know that Republicans never lie so maybe they were just, you know, fudging the numbers a little bit to encourage their base. Or trying to discourage fundraising by someone else, although I can't imagine who might be the target of GOP misinformation.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/7/20/161340/694

You know, if these fuckers told me the sun was coming up in the east, I make damn sure I looked out the window before I believed it.

[AtomicKitten]

8. ***

"You know, if these fuckers told me the sun was coming up in the east, I make damn sure I looked out the window before I believed it."

Ain't that the truth? :)

My first belly laugh in a few days (after crying my eyes out the night before last over the ME crisis - it was cathartic). Thanks a million.