Jim Gilmore for President still in the red
By: James Martin
Published On: 6/6/2008 11:51:31 AM
I was going through campaign finance records last night and found that Jim Gilmore's Presidential account is $140,936 in debt (He raised $357,986 for his extended run for the Presidency of the United States... which is just about what Mark Allen raised to get 37% running for the House of Delegates).
PS: Mark Warner's Leadership PAC, Forward Together, raised $10,045,354.
Comments
Please help me understand this (commonsenseprogressive - 6/6/2008 12:37:23 PM)
And apologies if this has been asked before, but why can't Warner run for Veep and U.S. Senate simultaneously? I mean Gilmore is as likely to win as Bush is as likely to have a 75% approval rating. Now the only difficult thing is logistics as in Warner campaigning in battleground states like CO and MO while running to represent VA in the Senate, but if he is so certain to win, why not take the gamble. He most assuredly would help win VA (like LBJ in TX) but is different enough from Obama to be a good draw for indies. I think its doable but I'm open to other counterarguments. Thanks
Not a good idea (GMUDem - 6/6/2008 4:39:37 PM)
I think it wouldn't play well with voters, plus it would defeat the purpose of running for Senate at all since hopefully Obama would win. I think he's setting himself up for the future by running for Senate.
Other interesting info (Lowell - 6/6/2008 3:42:20 PM)
*Gilmore has paid Marcus Consulting and Mercury Public Affairs just over $60,000 combined (as of 5/11/08) during his Senate campaign. Gilmore owes the same consultants a combined total of $54,000 from his $140,000 of debt from the failed presidential campaign. (as of 3/31/08) Verrry interesting.
*In April of this year, Gilmore's presidential campaign received two FEC letters for "Failure to File."
