August 03, 2010 06:52 PM UTC

McInnis Fundraising Plunges, Maes Little Better

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• by: Colorado Pols

File this alongside freefalling poll numbers, a pullout of national support, and the threatened lawsuit against GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis–the money is drying up faster than you can say “Water! We cannot live without it.” As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports:

Gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis took in about half in campaign donations for the second half of July compared with the first, while his GOP rival saw a dramatic increase in the number of people contributing to his campaign.

That switch in donations corresponds with when allegations surfaced and McInnis later admitted that he had plagiarized material he wrote for a Pueblo foundation in 2004 and 2005, said Dan Maes, McInnis’ opponent in the Aug. 10 primary…

Maes pulled in about $18,000 in the last two weeks of July compared with nearly $22,000 in the first part of the month.

At the same time, McInnis collected about $35,000 in the second half of last month – about half the $69,000 he pulled in the first two weeks of July.

So basically, Dan “High Mileage” Maes can say credibly that his fundraising hasn’t tanked quite as badly. But it’s quite clear that his own dark time in the scandalverse has done its work.

Meanwhile,

John Hickenlooper nearly doubled his donations from the first half of the month, raising about $115,000 in the first two weeks, and $290,500 in the second.

It’s a mathematical expression of our Big Line, folks. There is no realistic scenario for GOP victory in this race anymore, and these numbers only supply more proof of that common knowledge.