Dwight Evans' campaign joined the early campaign finance release movement offered a look into its finances this afternoon, saying that it has almost double what Chaka Fattah has in the bank.
Evans' campaign manager, Maurice Daniel, said Evans has about $1.2 million in his warchest. (I'm trying to get a written document out of him, but that's straight from his mouth). The campaign has spent a little more than $1 million, Daniel said, and has raised about $1 million since the beginning of the year.
He's received money from 4,428 individual donors, Daniel said.
Fattah only has half of what Evans does in the bank, but supporters say his strong ground operation will act as the great equalizer. They say they're not worried.
Waiting for word back from the other three campaigns.
UPDATE: Nutter's not joining the fun...waiting until May 4.
I question the extent to which Fattah's ground operation is "sound," but I will admit that boots on the ground on Election Day are important. Are they more important than tv ads? I guess we'll soon find out.
A few months ago, the polls indicated this was Chaka's race to lose. I think the better question to ask is: why is the supposed front-runner having so much trouble raising money? (I don't buy "fundraising limits" as the answer. Evans has more than double CoH than Fattah and he's working under those same limits.)
Kudos to the Nutter camp and all those campaigns that do not release their reports early. I'm all about disclosure - as much as the law requires. No reason for the other camps to follow up Fattah's error with one of their own. If the law gives them 'til May 4th, then they should use it.
Posted by: Jack | April 04, 2007 at 06:17 PM
Fattah must be as illiterate as Brady - neither one can read or fill out a form!
Posted by: | April 06, 2007 at 06:25 AM