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Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 | 9:25 a.m.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid listens as President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session Congress Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, in Washington.
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WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s re-election campaign raised $2 million in the final three months of 2009, taking in $15 million toward his $25 million goal, according to reports released today.
The campaign spent as much during the fourth quarter, and now has $8.7 million cash on hand as the campaign heads toward fall.
Reid dominates the fundraising so far, but Republican challengers continue to amass their own sizable warchests. Sue Lowden, the former state Republican Party leader, has indicated she could tap her family’s considerable wealth to run.
“Our campaign is fully operational and ready to ensure Sen. Reid will continue his work creating jobs and getting Nevada's economy back on track as leader of the Senate,” said campaign manager Brandon Hall. “These resources allow the campaign to highlight the choice they have between candidates whose rhetoric doesn't match reality and Sen. Reid’s record of delivering for all Nevada.”
Republican challenger Sue Lowden raised more than $800,000 during the last three months of 2009 in her bid for a U.S. Senate seat.
Overall, Lowden opponent Danny Tarkanian has collected $648,622 to mount the race for the GOP nomination.
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Go Harry GO!
Maybe all of this outside money by the repulicans and democrats can improve our local economy by having the politicans shower the money on local media who intern will spend it on local businesses.
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Thats a lot to spend especially when you are going to loose.
GIVE IT UP HARRY!!! Raising "outside" money is not going to get the vote of the "locals"
Harry you will be wasting 25 million dollars trying to get yourself reelected. Think what good that money could do to help the unemployed and people who are hungry in your own state! Do the right thing and give those funds to a cause that can fix a little bit of the massive damage your neglect has caused our state!
If there is theory that somebody can buy an election then this might be test for that theory.
I bet that about 80% of that money is out-of-state.
Harry Reid's answer to his miserable performance is to just buy his seat. You see this same philosophy with his son, Rory Reid. Their arrogance towards the people of Nevada allows them to believe they can do whatever they want and simply buy their seats. Not only do we have total arrogance in Washington, we have it right here at home. Shelly Berkley, Dina Titus and the Reid's, none of them deserve to serve us anymore.
Fear, is no way to run a State.
During this run up, Dirty Harry said he can get $25M but in reality that is not what he has gotten because many of the would of had been donors have seen the writings on the wall and have not donated.
However the majority of the donations he has received all came from outside the state of Nevada.
Of course the MGM gave him money, as they routinely have greased his pockets and he did of course do all he can for the City Center which by the way, without any reporting began to fire employees last Friday and do you see any liberal media reporting that?
Not yet, we will have to watch the unemployment level up itself next month when these figures start being counted!
But do continue Dirty Harry to keep spending this money you have accumulated from outside the state of Nevada.
If anyone is interested in whom actually gave that was documented and not the ones who gave that he put the money into his pocket you can go to the:
www.FEC.gov website and click on Nevada then Dirty Harry's name on the Senatorial portion and you can read everyone of his donors and even click on info about them, i.e, address, amount, date, etc.
But Dirty Harry has spent $2M and did not even register a blimp on his approval rating being risen, but it may of helped it to go down as his face was visible on the commercials and we need to be reminded of whom we are voting out this November!
Ha! Ha! Ha! I see the "I hate Harry crowd" is out in force this morning. Nothing surprising there....
Yes, money has a lot to do with winning elections......why do you think the GOP and their brain-dead followers are all "giddy" over the lastest Supreme Court decision concerning the amount of money that huge corporation can donate to political campaigns?
I'm always amazed when I see the double standard that is employed by those who sleep over on the right.....they "knock" Harry Reid for raising millions for his re-election campaign and say that he's simply trying to buy the election but they will tell you that the latest Supreme Court decision on political donations is a great, great thing.....
Who ever said people such as PvtRock and jlb101 have both oar's in the water?
Well, the Hate Harry crowd has nothing else to do until they get orders from the Hate Everybody crowd.
This is VERY good for the Repubs as he is sucking all the money away from all the other Dem candidates.
When it's all over, the state will be redder than ever because Reid's greed killed his own party by suffocating each and every other Dem running for office.
With the embarassing loss of healthcare which was dithered away in Reid's backroom, and now the total embarassment of Pres O jerking away any and all fed funds for high speed rail, the Ozzian curtain has been pulled back showing Reid is TOTALLY impotent in delivering anything but huge amounts for his own failing election.
It may be in the best interest of all the "outside money" which is trying to buy Nevada, but it's not in the best interest of voters here to perpetuate Reid's impotency. Even in his BEST days he could only juggle one ball at a time and now he can't even do anything but raise money for himself.
texexnv......
I have a very simple exercise for you that you need to adopt as we get closer & closer to November.
You perform it in this manner.....
Each morning, after waking-up, go stand in from of a mirror and repeat the following 20 times....
"Hello Senator Reid. It's great to see you again and congratulations on your re-election to the Senate. Nevada is very lucky to have you as our senator."
I think you get the message, right?
The 4 hate-talk stations in Las Vegas should be required to file campaign finance documentation with the elections commission.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_s...
JD.......
And your message is? Ha! Ha!
Here's what the Sun story left out, not surprisingly.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/U...
Sen. Reid spends money as fast as he banks it
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
AP Political Writer
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's campaign ended 2009 with less money in the bank than it had in September after financing an advertising blitz intended to buff his bruised image in his home state of Nevada, records released Friday showed.
After spending an average of $22,000 a day from October through December, Reid still holds a commanding fundraising edge over any of his potential Republican opponents in November.
The politically struggling Democratic leader collected nearly $2 million in donations in the final three months of the year - his weakest fundraising quarter of 2009 by a narrow margin. That's about the same amount of money his campaign burned through in the three-month period on ads and other expenditures.
Reid ended the year with $8.69 million in his campaign account, down slightly from $8.73 million at the end of September.
Come to your own conclusion El Lobo. Just my two cents.
Hmmmmm....Darn that Harry. He continues to spent money & raise money toward his re-election....
He's not playing fair!
He should back off on his fund raising & give "baby Tark" & "sorry Sue" a chance to raise some money.....sooner or later, one of them will have raised at least one-million dollars toward their election.....
Of course, I wonder how much money both will be forced to spend in the up coming GOP primary. You have to win the primary if you're going to represent your party in the Fall election.
Maybe the loser of the primary will decide to run as an Independent in the Fall.....you know, a "Say it ain't so Joe" approach....
Of course, Joe had the deep, deep pockets of the insurance companies to fall back on... "Sorry Sue" has the deep, deep pockets of her family to fall back on (Hmmmmm....is that something like the John Ensign's approach...) but "baby Tark" isn't as fortunate.....
The more he spends the lower he polls. Its an interesting phenomenom called Reid's Rule of Gravity.
If he is so sure he will win, why doesn't he give all the campaign money to congress to put toward the deficit? I feel sorry for all those who gave him money. All it will be is a tax write-off, because Scary Reid is gone come November!!
I find it very funny that the members of the "I hate Harry" Fan Club never sing the praises of Harry's up coming possible opponents.....
None of the group have said anything about "baby Tark" or "sorry Sue." Why is that?
Maybe the "I hate Harry" group aren't real "hot" on the accomplishments or merits of the two?
"baby Tark" is doing great as a politican. He's 0-2 thus far in his political career, and "sorry Sue" has as many enemies in her own party as she has among Democrats....
Sorry Reid, I don't care how much money you raise... you're not getting re-elected.
WISHING YOU SUCCESS, HARRY!
Dina Titus should run against Harry in a primary. What an upset it would be...
LarryVegas.....
There you go.....dreaming again! What are we going to do with you?
I look for Titus to retire John Ensign in 2012....She would beat up on Ensign to the extent that it might appear to some people that what she did was "cruel & unusual punishment."
So what,Woody has 25 million in the bank to run a losing campaign. That idiot will never get my vote. He needs to retire, he thinks this country will fall apart with out him, what an egotistical piece of poltical garbage.I'll bet he gives some of that money to his stupid dexter looking son of his. Ride those coat tails Rory and try to catch some of that money blowing off the back side.