In the closely watched race to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate, Beto ORourke is giving Ted Cruz a run for his campaign money.
Democratic candidate ORourke has raised twice as many dollars as Republican incumbent Ted Cruz, and more than any other U.S. Senate candidate in history. He entered the race as the lesser known candidate and is representing the democratic party in a deep red state, but in the months leading up to next weeks general election, ORourke has come out as the breadwinner in the most highly funded race in the 2018 midterm elections. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the two candidates have raised a combined $100 million, with well over half of that amount coming from ORourkes donors.
So where are ORourkes biggest monetary supporters located? Of the $70 million raised by ORourkes campaign, about $25 million can be traced back to the donors (which includes individuals, companies, organizations, candidates, committees and PACs), thanks to itemized receipts posted by the Federal Elections Commission. Removing the $100,000 that came from individuals in the armed forces or those living outside 50 states and Washington D.C., heres where that money came from:
Unsurprisingly, donors in Texas sent a significant chunk of the $25 million. At $13 million, receipts from The Lone Star State added up to more than all of the other states amounts combined. The states that delivered the next highest sums, California and New York, didnt even come close, contributing in the $2 million to $4 million range according to the filings.
A curiously large number of donations came from West Somerville, Mass. A closer look showed that it was because of the nonprofit organization ActBlue, which offers an online portal to help small-dollar donors contribute to Democratic causes and candidates. Donations done through an intermediary like ActBlue must be filed twice once for the conduit and once for the actual donor in the name of full disclosure. For the purpose of the map, MONEY used the latter in order to ensure that the contributions were accurately distributed to each state. But interesting to note that those line items listed under ActBlue added up to $19 million, meaning small-dollar donors accounted for a significant portion of ORourkes total raised three-fourths of the $70 million, according to Dallas News.
Thats not to take away from Massachusetts share of the pie, of course. Even without ActBlues help, the historically blue states contributions amounted to $819,175; the fourth highest behind New York and ahead of Washington.
The smallest contributions to ORourkes campaign, meanwhile, came from the Dakotas and West Virginia, but these states werent dropping a lot on his opponent either. As this map built on the same scale shows, almost all of the states that donated less than $10,000 to ORourkes campaign did the same for Cruz. Iowa, which sent $26,000 to Cruz and a little less than $10,000 to ORourke, was the exception.
Donors in Texas were responsible for most of Cruzs campaign money as well. In fact, in proportion to their respective itemized amounts, the $7 million Cruz received was more than what ORourke got from their home state.
Ultimately, dollars dont always translate to results: Cruz continues to poll ahead of his democratic challenger and Republican leaders arent really sweating the fundraising numbers. Texas, after all, hasnt elected a democratic senator since 1970.
#1: Justified To: All (#0)
But what I get is that Cruz raise more money from actual Texans than "Whitey O'Rourke" but Whitey out raised Cruz from nonTexans than Cruz.
When will we make it you can only accept money from your district and absolutely no money can come from non citizens. Since we are suppose to be a representative government of the people(citizens) not a government of corporations and pacs!
Justified posted on 2018-11-02 11:24:38 Reply Private Reply
#2: Justified To: All (#1)
Cruz received "$9,922,976.49" From Texan's but raised "$29,972,337.20".
Who is in the pockets of the rich???????????
Justified posted on 2018-11-02 11:39:12 Reply Private Reply
#3: Justified To: All (#2)
https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S8TX00285/?tab=raising
Ted Cruz
https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00492785/?tab=raising
Justified posted on 2018-11-02 11:40:37 Reply Private Reply
#4: Justified To: All (#3)
Oh yeah.
Dems are the party of the filthy rich who want to keep you a peon!!!!!!
They want to bring in more cheap unskilled labor to drive down wages for the middle to lower middle class. Make it so the poor citizens can not compete for jobs which forces them to stay on welfare.
I do not call the dems demoncrap for the hell of it!!
Justified posted on 2018-11-02 11:55:42 Reply Private Reply
#5: sneakypete To: Justified (#1)
On the 35th of the month of Never,in the year 4545.
If we did that there would be no money for the professional political classes to steal for personal use.
sneakypete posted on 2018-11-02 12:46:37 Reply Private Reply
#6: sneakypete To: Justified (#4)
And there you have it,the formula for the establishment of the police state the Professional Left dreams of,where they control every aspect of everything.
sneakypete posted on 2018-11-02 12:48:03 Reply Private Reply
#7: Liberator To: sneakypete, Justified (#6)
Yup. +100 observations by both of you.
These Elites (spearheaded by the DEMOCRAT-Commie Party) are selling their BS economic "equality" alright; By creating a MUCH larger economic LOWER Class while eliminating the Middle Class.
They are also trying to eliminate upward mobility for the lower and middle class and the opportunities that reward the creative, the hard-working, those who CREATE wealth for others. And let's NOT forget their open war on White Males, who traditionally comprise the economic backbone and engine of the West and USA.
Liberator posted on 2018-11-03 14:38:00 Reply Private Reply
#8: nolu chan To: Justified (#0)
Beto married the only daughter of William D. Sanders, who Bloomberg reportedly said was worth $20 Billion with a B.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sanders_(businessman)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/us/politics/beto-orourke-el-paso-texas-senate.html
"Bloomberg News once called Mr. Sanders the Warren Buffett of the real estate industry and estimated the value of his portfolio at $20 billion."
nolu chan posted on 2018-11-03 16:57:39 Reply Private Reply