We’ve been reading about the independent efforts underway to help Tony Strickland get elected State Controller. Some Indian Tribes and Silicon Valley types are stepping up bigtime (to the tune of millions of dollars). Why would they do this? Maybe they are sick and tired of having a liberal, tax-loving majority on the State Board of Equalization? Duh.
In the meatime, Strickland’s Democrat opponent, John Chiang, has started to flake out on his media payments causing cancellations around the state. Much like his Democrat colleague Cruz Bustamante, Chiang’s campaign seems to be imploding.
There is union money out there… But with Angelides losing by a margin so vast, do the unions want to drop good money after bad?
October 28th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Hey, you guys need to consider the lillies of the field.
In the filing due yesterday, Chiang had raised $487,000 in the first 3 weeks of October. Strickland had raised $260,000.
Chiang spent $1.14 million and spent $1.02 million on air time (89.5% of total expenditures.)
Strickland spent $587,000 — $395,000 on air time (67%).
Who is imploding again?
October 28th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Parke,
You crack me up.
In a statewide media buy for a down-ticket race you know that those numbers really don’t mean very much.
I know it’s hard to believe, perhaps even painful for you, but Republicans are going to pick up some seats in CA.
October 28th, 2006 at 12:00 am
If they don’t mean very much, why are you bothering to write about them?