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Posted: March 5, 2008
MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL POLITICS
Got money? No one gets elected without it. Here is a
summary of the state of the financial state of the
statewide candidates at the start of the election year.
| Office |
Candidate |
Party |
Treasury |
What counts |
| Senate |
Joe Biden |
D |
$1.5 mil |
Biden's gamble for
president never meant risking his nest egg for
re-election |
| |
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R |
0 |
Zero is an ugly number for
any Republican to start with |
| House |
Mike Castle |
R |
$1.5 mil |
Castle salted away contributions in case he
drew a top-tier challenger, but the Democrats
have more candidates than dollars |
| |
Chris Bullock |
D |
0 |
The Wilmington minister's candidacy and fund raising are
just beginning |
| |
Karen Hartley-Nagle |
D |
0 |
The "fusion" candidate campaigned on a
shoestring in '06, when she lost the primary but
kept going on the Indie ticket, and she looks
cash-strapped once more |
| |
Dennis Spivack |
D |
($129,087) |
Spivack is carrying debt from his '06
candidacy and also carrying doubts about running
again |
| Gov |
John Carney |
D |
$1 mil |
Carney has the ante for
his share of what is shaping up as the most
high-powered primary in state history |
| |
Jack Markell |
D |
$2.5 mil |
Markell's money turned
heads, even with a $725,000 loan to himself included
in
the total |
| |
Bill Lee |
R |
0 |
Lee thought he was
finished after his '04 race and closed out his
account, but if the party will raise him $1 or
$2 mil, he could substitute for dropout Alan
Levin |
| Lt gov |
Matt Denn |
D |
$376,192 |
Denn has set a record by banking more than
anyone for lieutenant governor at the start of
an election year |
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Ted Blunt |
D |
$70,889 |
The silver lining for Blunt is that most of
his contributions came from small-dollar
contributors who can give again |
| |
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R |
0 |
No guv, no lite guv, no stash |
| Ins com |
Gene Reed Jr. |
D |
$85,188 |
Running statewide takes
earnest money, and so far Reed is the only
Democrat acting like an earnest candidate |
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Karen Weldin Stewart |
D |
($16,512) |
Stewart goes into the race
the same way she ended the primary she lost in
'04 -- in debt |
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Tom Savage |
D |
($14,056) |
A legislative race in '04
put Savage in a hole and left him there |
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John Brady |
R |
$6.97 |
Brady's treasury looks
like it was scrounged from the back of couch
cushions, but he insists he already raised
thousands after the reports were due |
Source: Federal and state finance reports ending Dec.
31, 2007. Incumbents in bold.
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