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How much does money matter?
If spending is an indicator of how an election will turn out, then U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-West Chester Twp., has the advantage. But his challenger, Justin Coussoule, hopes that’s not the case.
Boehner has raised more than $4.5 million for his 2010 raise to retain his 8th Congressional District seat as of June 30. About $2.74 million has been contributed to his campaign from individual donations. He’s 3,205 contributions to his campaign, according to that latest report.
According to the Boehner’s campaign, this fundraising cycle the 10-term congressman has raised around $6 million.
According to the campaign finance reports through June 30, Coussoule has raised $60,407. But his campaign said that total is now more than $100,000. Based from the reports filed on June 30, Coussoule received 87 individual donations contributing $51,307 to his campaign. Of the individual donors, the most were two donations of $2,400 each.
Political action committees, or PACs, account for $6,750 to Coussoule donations (six PACs have contributed, the most being one $5,000 donation). Boehner’s received 668 PAC donations. He had 22 donations under $1,000, but 130 donations of $5,000.
Contributions from party organizations, Boehner has only received $175 while Coussoule has received $2,350.
Boehner also has another $64,295 in “other” donations, but the Federal Elections Commission website does not indicate the source of these funds.
As a voter, do these figures mean anything to you? If so, what?
And I’ll ask you the headline of this blog: How much does money matter?
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By Pops
September 8, 2010 8:49 PM | Link to this
Coussoule for city council maybe but congress? What a waste of money. Give it to your poor Liberal friends.
By Joe
September 9, 2010 8:58 AM | Link to this
Yeah, it means something to me, it boggles the mind to consider someone spending a million dollars to win a $150,000 a year job for two years, and it is even more troubling to consider those who would donate to the wining of that job, unless something sinister is afoot here
By Bill
September 19, 2010 9:46 AM | Link to this
What concerns me is the Journal decides to BOLD some items to make their political point.