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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Politics CD8 Financials: Paton Raises $165K
Posted by Jim Nintzel on Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:26 PM
Republican Jonathan Paton has struggled to raise funds for his District 8 congressional campaign over the last three months.
Paton raised somewhere around $165,000 between April and June—a lackluster quarter, especially compared to the nearly $600,000 that Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords announced yesterday.
Paton's take is a big drop from the half-million dollars that he raised in the first quarter.
It's little wonder that the Paton campaign picked today to release details of internal polling showing him neck-and-neck with Giffords. (We'll have more on the poll later.) He wants today's headlines to be about the poll numbers, not the financial numbers.
Paton still faces a primary that includes Jesse Kelly, Brian Miller and Jay Quick.
The Kelly campaign tells us they raised more than $120,000 in the quarter, while Miller reports raising more than $26,000.
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My money is on Brian Miller, he truly has a grassroots movement/support going on! He is also doing it on a lot less money to boot. I think Paton is out spending him 10 to 1; and, he is still in a statistical dead heat with Paton. Way to go Brian Miller. www.brianmillerforcongress.com
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@Arizona Man: Calm down Brian!!
[NOTE: When you put a sign out on every street corner of Tucson stating that you are running for Congress, guess what "Jack-wagon", you ARE a politician.]
And all the tea-baggers say that Giffords is going down in flames, but they won't give a nickle. They might as well dig up poor Randy Graf again. He already knows how to run a campaign on a shoe string budget.
Send these boys some cash! Money wins elections. Not the most money, but plenty of it. Big full-page ads in the Tucson Weekly and the Sierra Vista paper is what you need!
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