The Lowell Sun is reporting that the Jamie Eldridge campaign is down to $22,000 cash on hand, and due to that lost it’s deputy campaign manager.
But sources told The Sun Eldridge’s war chest currently has less than $12,000 for the primary, and another $10,000 or so earmarked for the general election should he win the Democratic nomination.
Please share widely!
You don’t make good decisions in times of crisis, do you.
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I’m endorsing Finegold.
Teh article also says that Jamie have $140,000 cash-on-hand on June 30th. Unless Jamie’s campaign forked over $120,000 to his media consultant for a TV buy (likely, given that we’re less than one month befoer the primary), there’s no way Jamie’s campaing burned through that kind of money in July.
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The 12,000 reportedly still in the primary account probably makes the August payroll and Jamie’s raising money for a GOTV effort (or something).
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But, $120,000 does not make a good media buy. Jamie definetly has some problems.
hold off on. The game is often played so that bills/ invoices are generated on the day after the closing period so that cash on hand looks higher. Jamie is spending money on crazy things like the 12 or 16 page brochure that he handed out at the 4th of july parade.
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Trust me, I’m in the printing industry. A 16 page brochure is NOT the best use of money in printed materials for a campaign.
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1) It’s too long people won’t read it.
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2) it costs 8 times a simple tri-fold brochure.
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I can totally see Jamie blowing through that money.
Ogonowski’s summer media buy is a brilliant use of funds on his part. Everyone knows that before Labor Day is the absolute best time to get people’s attention for politics.
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Unless of course, he’s worried about losing the primary to the guy who doesn’t even live in the district.
Labor day practically. So one must use funds before labor day. And Cable TV ain’t that expensive. It’s actually a very good use of money if he targeted it at the right channels.
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i.e. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, History Channel and NECN. It’s a much better use of money than a 16 page throwaway piece.
The election isn’t on Labor Day for Ogonowski unless you really think he’s facing a serious primary challenge. I for one, don’t.
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He’s going to wish he had that money back in October, in time for the real election.
He’s gonna lose anyways.. and then, in my guess, take on Colleen Garry (my rep and allegedly family friends with him?) for her State House seat.
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Why else go through the exercise of the congressional campaign?
I can understand a Republican perpetuating media innaccuracies because that’s second nature, but progressives shouldn’t buy into this crap. What is critical to this election is ground work. Jamie Eldridge received both the DFA and PDM endorsements and has the support of organizations that do the hard, last minute work of canvassing and phone banking. The whole thing smells wrong to me, especially if it this is of such interest to the Clipper. Pardon me for finally becoming skeptical of something.
just passing on articles like I’ve done with other stories about the MA-05 race.
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I personally would love to see Jamie win, because MA-05 is not electing an avowed progressive. Deval only got 50.5% in this district. Jamie I feel is the easiest for Jim Ogonowski to beat.
why point out something construed by the globe as problematic? no, i think you’re afraid of jamie winning, because it is clear that he has a grassroots team backing him that’ll blow ogonowski out of the water.
That Republicans were just drooling over the prospect of a Deval Patrick primary victory in 2006 because he’d be the easiest to beat.
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How’d that work out for you?
pretty well, considering he got his lowest vote total there. I’m just relaying information from the Lowell sun as I have thoughout this campaign.
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Oh and laurel this info is not from the Globe
Also, I imagine that Kerry Healey did not get all of the 49.5% that did not go to Patrick in MA-05.
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Wait, what am I doing? You’re right. Ogonowski is going to win this hands down. It’s pretty much hopeless for us. I’m waving the white flag. You folks are sitting pretty. Just keep ignoring the difference between state and federal elections for a few more months, that’s all I ask.
So, you going to answer my question?
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Do you have information that counters this? Regardless, campaigning takes money, even if you have a good ground game. Deval had a good ground game, but he also pulled in lots of cash…they complement each other.
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Funny that the reaction of most folks here is to deny this story can be true and blame the person for pointing it out. I thought ignoring bad news was a strategy more typical for the other guys…
I know these remarks aren’t directed at me, but I’d like to say that the Sun story is not implausible. Eldridge telegraphed a while back that he wasn’t interested in raising money, so it wouldn’t be a complete surprise that he’s run out.
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That said, unsourced pieces in the Lowell Sun should be taken with a healthy dose fo skepticism.
If memory serves me, this number came up in an article about the deputy campaign director leaving on less than stellar terms. So some quick sleuthing would lead me to believe that the “anonymous source” is probably the departing staffer. I’m not saying the number is necessarily wrong, but it could just be a bitter staffer trying to give the campaign bad press.
Eldridge knows he cant win this one, but he does know he can win the soon to be open State Senate race, and he has come ahead of a lot of other local pols by getting his name out now, getting the grassroots excited now, so he can have a huge lead come the next special election.
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Personally I am backing Finegold as the anti-Nikki candidate and so should anyone else worried about her cakewalk to the Congress.