13th District: Sideshow Bob Marshall didn't get a single person to contribute to him this quarter, just 4 PAC's totaling $1,500. First came the bankers on June 3, then came the coal PAC on June 10, then came the tobacco PAC on June 27, then the anesthesiologist PAC on June 28. I'll let you, dear reader, construct a narrative out of THAT one. Bruce Roemmelt's 128 donors, 95 of them under $100, raised $10,092.47, for an average contribution of $78.84. The only non-individual donors were firefighter's unions. Bruce has $40,585.80 on hand, Sideshow Bob $51,569.23. Firefighter. Educator. Veteran.
37th District: Take the 13th district money piles and chuck most of them out the window. These bruised and bloodied primary survivors aren't exactly awash in money, with a slight advantage to Democrat David Bulova, who has $10,693.93, versus Republican John Masons' $9,840.53. The commas are in the right places. However, John Mason has raised considerably less ($13,970 to $20,151.85) and spent considerably more ($37,671.89 to $19,685.96) this previous quarter. Mason spent $22,694.62 or 60% of his total expenditures, paying Pound Feinstein for direct mail. David Bulova's largest single expenditure was $2,770.16...for "Research". Look out John Mason. John Mason spent $8,340 on "Voter Attitudes Surveys". (Didn't we call that polling in the olden days?) Look out David Bulova.
41st District: Republican Micheal Golden, beating back a relatively weak primary opponent in Bill Finerfrock ($2,675 total so far this election cycle, incidentally, was spent on signs, which only matters to me because I became sick of being surrounded by the huge ones. Coupled with the Finerfrock signs, they outnumbered weeds.), Republican candidate Micheal Golden raised $26,515.20, spent $25,319.66, and coupled with the $36,363.66 he had left over from last quarter, has $37,559.20. Golden received $2,750 for Golden from officeholders (Cucinelli, O'Brien, Ligamfelter, Hugo), $1,000 from All Children Matter, a pro-voucher group, and $1,000 from the Club for Growth, on top of $400 previously. Democratic candidate Dave Marsden has $90,526.16 on hand, or almost two and a half times the Golden cash total, raising $32,376.45.
52nd District: Democratic candidate Hilda Barg is doing very, very well in comparison to Republican incumbent Jeff Frederick. $145,011.15 cash on hand, compared to $104,859.58 for Jeff Frederick. Wow! Not good news for the incumbent. Jeff Frederick raised $26,972.50 (from 32 donors)...Hilda Barg raised a whopping $40,151 (from 49 donors)! Hilda received $500 from Springfield Crane Rental...maybe they want the job of picking Frederick out of his seat, literally. Prince William County may not quite be the Republican boondocks it used to be. This seat is rollicking in gobs of cash--and the challenger has a bigger piece of the pie.