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January 10, 2011 11:20 PM UTC
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Can’t buy that much air time with that amount and it’s not enough to blow anyone out of the water. At least with another 100k he could have made a substantial ad buy.
Berick Abramson was in the Spot blog making absolutely no sense.
The Spot has updated their story to include Senator Romer and Doug Linkhart and it includes a detail left out of Hancock’s release.
Senator Romer raised $226,000
Doug Linkhart raised $102,000 (thank you for playing Doug)
James Mejia raised $208,000
Mike Hancock raised $220,000 + transferred $45,000 from another campaign.*
* The Spot includes the fact that Hancock’s total included $45,000 that he transferred from his city council account (wonder how much of that was from the taxi companies who he dutifully helped block their competition from starting up in town). That means Hancock actually raised $220,000
Looks to me like Romer, Mejia & Hancock are all at about the same place. Linkhart – color him dead before it began.
IonCO not sure what you were talking about on Mejia’s guys comment in the story. Read to me that he thinks anybody who didn’t raise 200k isn’t serious (hello Doug) and that they’re all going to need a million on top of what they raised.
Romer was the last one to get in so he’s only scratched the surface and has a lot of connections. Mejia has been in the longest but probably doesn’t have the fundraising network so not bad numbers for him. Hancock has been spending a lot on those billboards and the old Udall office. I think it will be telling what they all are able to raise this next couple months.
I don’t think this field is done yet. I expect Boigon to write herself a big 6 figure check to make up for being late and probably not raising much. Also expect one other woman to get in this week with deep pockets and business ties and I’d bet on Isenberg being in within a couple weeks. If you’ve got deep pockets, this is anybody’s game so I don’t think we’ll really know what it looks like until the first of February.
I don’t think Isenberg gets in. Is the woman you are talking about, Linda Alvarado?
Those numbers from Romer are surprisingly low. Between his daddy’s contacts, all of his investment banking connections and Norm Brownstein being prominent on his fundraisers I expected Romer to be way ahead of the others. Hancock’s grassroots support that put him almost $50k ahead of the corporate funded Romer is impressive and should make it clear he can raise what is needed to compete against the best of them. Hancock has a great team with the guy who guided Ritter to election running the show, a hardworking field team that includes Paul Sandoval’s daughter and he has one of Romanoff’s finance people who put together a lot of their grassroots fundraising. Hancock has proven he can raise the money even in a huge slate of candidates and up against the establishment backed Romer.
I do have to agree about Linkhart. Unless he steps it up exponentially there’s no way he can run with the big dogs.
Evan Dreyer did not guide Ritter to victory, that would be Greg Kolomitz. Having so much of Ritter’s ‘team’ involved with Hancock’s campaign is actually a detriment – they can do for Hancock what they did for Ritter over the past four years, which is…..
You’re right – Greg Kolomitz guided Ritter to victory and then…oh that’s right! He misspent and misused hundreds of thousands of dollars, among other things. Hmmm, maybe Evan Dreyer is not the worst part of Ritter’s campaign ‘team.’
There were those who were out to destroy Kolomitz because they wanted to separate him from Ritter for their own ends.
They succeeded in doing that and at the same time contributing to Ritter’s demise – which is why he is not Governor today.
That was quite an elaborate throwing under the bus.
The guy sold out his own community on the Montbello reorg to help his buddies at Oakwood homes who are building Green Valley Ranch and wanted more charter schools to attract more gentrification of the area.
Want to know how practiced Hancock is at the pay to play game? Here’s the take of some people trying to start a new cab business in town:
http://milehighcab.blogspot.co…
At this oint, I am started to get the feel it may come down to Romer v. Hancock in the run-off. But it is still very early in the game and anything could (and something likely will) happen.
this is an excellent year for a woman to be running. Is Carol Boigon that woman? Remains to be seen, but you have to consider her to be in the mix for the runoff – she will have plenty of money.
There is another woman in the race, Theresa Spahn. Could she catch fire and repeat the dark-horse candidacy of Hick?
As I said, it is a good year for a woman to be running.
If she gets in, I think we’ll all be in for a surprise. She’s got some major cred and will be able to raise $$.
I expected to see a much higher number from Romer. I think we still need to see what Boigon did. She and Isenberg could write big checks to themselves to compete.
Maybe Romer was to busy with the cupcakes to ask for money?
Taxi Man makes a number of good points. I can only repeat what he says. Essentially, Mejia, Romer and Hancock are all tied money-wise at this point. We could all drone on and on about whether each one of them should have raised more or less and why. But essentially, all are starting from the same point. Isenberg, Boignan and Alvarado (if she enters) can pretty much self-fund.
It would, however, be interesting to see the cash on hand levels at this point. Beyond the spending Hancock has done on the billboards, these fundraising totals include in-kind donations. The real cash picture is the key.
In the Denver Prada, Berrick Abramson makes an interesting point. It doesn’t look like money will be showered onto this Mayor’s race, at least, not until the very end. That makes a ground campaign more important than normal. We will see if that turns out to be true.
I didn’t think what Abramson made sense or bodes well for James, that’s all I meant to say.
Kolo def did get thrown under the bus – the degree of manipulation is up for discussion. As a simple point of discretion, he should not have accepted any check writing responsibility. Suffice to say, there was a good amount of debt after Ritter’s race and not a lot of fundraising.
Regarding the amounts, the proof will in fact be available in early February. Seems to me that a lot of the campaigns are spending a good deal of cash to hire staff – I think those that made key hires and hold their powder will benefit. Candidly, it seems like Romer has done that. There is a challenge finding decent staff though when others have hired up.
Regarding Romer, I also expect him to quickly step it up. Remember, he’s barely been in. Michael has been at this for damn near three years.
In all, it’s gonna be a slugfest and should be fun to watch. What we see after the election may also be a slugfest and not so fun – only time will tell.
I think Boigan is going to post very solid numbers. She is noticeably out of the fray on this.