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July 09, 2009 12:31 AM UTC

Ritter Answers Critics With $400,000 Q2

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Updated from Politics West:

The subject line of the e-mail was: “Can you place these mountains?”

It turns out that Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter’s re-election campaign decided to have a little fun with Republican opponent Scott McInnis, whose campaign last week mistakenly posted a picture of the Canadian Rockies on his Web site.

Ritter invited readers to check out his new Web site, RitterForGovernor.com, and to guess the mountain range featured on it.

“Hint,” Ritter said of the mountains. “They’re not in Canada.”

…He raised more than $400,000 the last quarter, which ended on June 30.

There seems to be some confusion about Bill Ritter’s numbers versus the expected 7-digit haul Sen. Michael Bennet will report for Q2 sometime next week. Don’t be fooled by false comparisons: Ritter is subject to much tighter fundraising restrictions as a state candidate, and can only raise about 25% as much per donor as Bennet can. The two numbers are apples-to-oranges incomparable, and in proper context it’s clear–for all the hand-wringing about his perceived vulnerability and rocky relations with parts of his base–Ritter did very well last quarter.

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12 thoughts on “Ritter Answers Critics With $400,000 Q2

  1. $400,000 is a lot of cash this early in the campaign.  I just looked up the limits and it looks like Gubernatorial candidates can raise up to $1,050 per election cycle, while U.S. Senate candidates can raise $4,800.  Not to be too precise, but the state limit is only 21.875% of the federal limit.

    $400,000 is all the more impressive in this economic environment.  My donation was only a drop in the bucket, so it seems like all those drops really added up.

  2. Of course, I did not give any other candidates money this quarter either.  I don’t want anybody feeling too secure with their warchests.  In politics, I subscribe to, “what have you done for the city/county/state/country lately?” and only donate when the campaign is actually going.

  3. These are better than most thought. Three quuestions–1) how much did he spend to get it; 2) how much does he have left: 3) how much did Josh and Scott raise and have.

    One last thought–it is interesting he released these numbers as occurding to the SOS he does not have to report until much later.

    1. won’t report anything raised in the second quarter, as one didn’t form his committee until last week and the other won’t be forming it until a few days from now.

      Everyone who has good numbers gets them out before the reporting deadline (which is a week from today) lest it get lost in the din. Cory Gardner did his yesterday. Bennet probably does his tomorrow or the next day.

      1. That’s technically correct, but maybe a little misleading.

        McInnis actually filed his candidate affadavit on May 19. Go to the Secretary of State’s web site and view “manual filings.”

        He didn’t file his committee registration until last week.  The jury is still out on when or if he filed a personal financial disclosure form, which the SOS office reminded him twice about.  I don’t see it in the manual filings.

        Because both filed their campaign registrations after June 30, neither McInnis nor Penry will need to report contributions/expenditures until October 15.

        Maybe it’s a distinction without a difference, but I think he’s been a candidate since May.  Registering a committee has to do with when the committee can accept contributions.

        1. Thanks for parsing that out — of course I didn’t mean to let Scooter off the hook for his “exploratory” (and some would say illegal, though that’s not going anywhere) campaigning. But as you say, he wasn’t able to raise money — physically get the checks and deposit them in his committee account — until after he filed the paperwork, so we won’t know for another three months how he’s doing.

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