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Republicans Winning Fundraising Race for Statewide Offices

Indiana GOP Statewide candidates not only grossly out-raised their Democratic opponents but had a lot more cash on hand.

In the Governor’s race, Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Pence out-raised his opponent John Gregg by nearly 2-1 in the second quarter of 2012, taking in more than $3 million to Gregg’s $1.7 million.

Pence also has nearly twice as much cash on hand as Gregg.  His campaign reported having more than $5.5 million in the bank.  Gregg reported having $2.85 million.

In other statewide races, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. Tony Bennett reported raising more than $341,000 in the second quarter and reported having nearly $780,000 in cash on hand. His Democratic opponent Glenda Ritz, reported raising nearly $37,000 and having slightly more than $24,000 on hand.

Attorney General candidate Greg Zoeller reported raising nearly $173,000 and having just under $460,000 in cash on hand.  His opponent Kay Fleming reported raising nearly $5,200 and having about $4,200 in cash on hand.

 

Posted: 07|16|12 at 5:07 pm by Abdul Hakim-Shabazz
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  • cynical sam

    Too bad money is not an indication of competence, honesty or basic morality.  Of course, we are talking politics.

  • paul wheeler

    Where are the figures for the Libertarians?

  • Avigdor

    I love how the libertarians (see http://www.ingunowners.com) believe that Romney is worst than Obama.  As I see it, Romney is more like Evan Byah, Joe Donnelly or John Gregg.  A good old boy who was the popular kid in high school.  No core beliefs.

    Compare Romney to Pence or Murdock who have strong core beliefs. 

    And folks, the majority of libertarians are democrats, not republicans.  We in the GOP are conservatives who have strong religious beliefs as part of our core.

  • M Theory

    I see Romney as more like the right handed version of Obama controlled by the same puppeteers. 

  • cynical sam

    IMHO, the majority of libertarians are libertarians. They do not wish to be associated with either side of the two-headed snake commonly referred to as Dem/Rep.  They tend to believe in LIBERTY first and foremost, so the GOP has the FREEDOM to believe in the religion of their choice and the Dems have the FREEDOM to believe in the religion of their choice.

    Its tough playing Mr. Obvious, and math is hard too.

  • http://twitter.com/ParsonsPolitics James Parsons

    Look like the rats are leaving the ship over on Market Street.Who ever is in charge of the party on a state wide basis, needs to have their fanny spanked. Either that or Jason Sharp sold his soul….as we all know,,politicians do that every day.Jason just proves he is the same old soup,,,just warmed over.

  • Avigdor

    Not really.  The democrats are filled with Classic Liberals who are basically libertarians.  And with civil libertarians.  Thus most libertarians are democrats.  And the root of the libertarians is the Jeffersonian-Democrats anyway.

  • Avigdor

    Romney is no different than Joe Donnelly or Evan Byah or John Gregg.  Good old boy who uses being popular to gain power but no core beliefs.

  • Avigdor

    BTW, what about the anarchists?  They are libertarian-socialists and democrats.

  • Avigdor

    Libertarians do not give money.  Just talk a lot.

  • cynical sam

    Well, why reply since you seem to have a label for everyone.  Just curious, are Democrats the only non-democrats?

  • Avigdor

    Our political parties are coalitions.  In reality we have five political factions.  The Progressives have replaced the socialists within the democrats.  And the working dems are more of a Labor “party” within the party.

    The republicans also have two major factions:  establishment and conservatives.

    The fifth faction is libertarian which is spread between three parties.

  • cynical sam

    OK, reasonable enough. But where do you see the Green’s fitting in and what about “true” anarchists? Ya know, the 1936 Catalonia type, not the bowling ball with the fuze and long trench coat hollywood/MSM version.

  • cynical sam

    I have no empirical data, but I would bet fanny spanking crosses party lines.

  • Avigdor

    Because every anarchist I have met refers to themselves as libertarian-socialists.