You remember Bill Hudak – yeah, the kooky lawn-sign guy whose birther-ish comments (since retracted) spooked Scott Brown. He’s the Republican running against John Tierney in the 6th congressional district.
A week or so ago, Hudak breathlessly reported that
Bill Hudak Continues Fundraising Momentum with $141,656 in Second-Quarter Contributions…
Hudak Raises More Contributions from Individuals than Congressman John F. Tierney
Similarly, he said:
John Tierney has raised less money from average individuals this quarter than our campaign
So let’s look at those numbers, shall we? Our friends at the FEC helpfully supply the required documents.
| Hudak | Tierney | |
| Total contributions from individuals in 2010 Q2 | $141,656 | $132,546 |
Hey, maybe Hudak is right! But wait – he left out a critical piece of information, namely, how much of his own money he’s including in those numbers. Let’s expand the table just a bit.
| Hudak | Tierney | |
| Total contributions from individuals in 2010 Q2 | $141,656 | $132,546 |
| Total contributions from the candidate in 2010 Q2 | $57,249 | $0 |
| Total contributions from individuals other than the candidate in 2010 Q2 |
$84,407 | $132,546 |
Ah.
Look, having raised over $84,000 from individuals in the second quarter is perfectly respectable. But it’s awfully silly for Hudak to then go off and claim to have outraised Tierney from individuals without bothering to mention that one of those “individuals” was himself, to the tune of nearly $60,000. (By the way, the $57,249 last quarter brings the total amount of Hudak’s personal wealth that he has donated to his campaign to $215,628, nearly half of the total amount he has raised. Tierney so far has not self-funded at all.)
By the way, Charlie Baker is apparently all-in with Hudak. Here they are at Hudak’s North Shore Music Theatre fundraiser.
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Does he want to be like the batsh*t crazy birther Hudak, or does he want to play the moderate Republican to attract independents? It really shows that the Teabagger/Birther fringe IS the current Republican party.
This is his car. No joke!
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p>Hat tip, Dan Kennedy, who has this story down to the ground at DanKennedy.net.
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p>Bill Hudak is the right wing equivalent of the far, far left, which also doesn’t have a very strong tether to reality or the meaning of “commonwealth.”
that needs to be opposed. It is Globo-techno-corpo-fascism. A scientifically controlled dytopian de-populated peasant suppression system.
The FEC filing also includes his total contributions to himself for the whole election cycle, $215,628.00. Every quarter the Salem Evening News seems to have an article entitled Hudak Outraises Tierney. Buried in the last paragraph is the fact that most of the money comes from his own pocket. But don’t laugh folks because his signs are everywhere up here in North Shore suburbia.