Wolf vs. Feder: Money Report

By: Lowell
Published On: 7/17/2007 3:22:42 PM

On June 4, the 10th District nominee for Congress in 2006, Judy Feder, declared that she would take on Frank Wolf in 2008, assuming that Wolf survives his primary, that is. :)  On July 10, Feder announced that she had raised over $110,000 in just one month, "a strong indication of her early momentum."  Now, we've got FEC reports in, and they are worth looking at.

The  chart at left summarizes where Feder and Wolf stand in terms of money (Feder is in blue, Wolf is in red).  Most significantly, Frank Wolf  has "cash on hand" advantage over Feder of just $70,000, a significantly smaller margin than after Feder's first month or even first quarter last time around.  This bodes very well for Judy Feder.

Where did the candidates get their money?  For Frank Wolf, the real estate developers seem to love him:
*$6,900 from The Peterson Companies, "one of the largest privately-owned development companies in the region."

*$4,600 from Mark Fried of Fried Companies, Inc. and his wife, Barbara.

*$2,300 from Long and Foster's chairman and CEO P. Wesley Foster

*$2,300 from developer James McIlvaine

*$4,600 from Miller & Smith Chairman Gordon Smith

*$2,300 from Stephen Cumbie of NV Commercial

*$1,000 from the National Association of Realtors PAC

In addition to realtors, another contributor that jumps out is SAIC, which has given Wolf $27,000 since 2001, including two checks in May (for a total of $2,000) and three checks in June (for a total of $4,000).  I find that intriguing, given the debate going on in those months about the Metro to Dulles/Tysons Tunnel, and the heavy involvement Frank Wolf has had over the years in pushing for that project.  Is there a connection or any signficance to the SAIC contributions?  Who knows, but it's intriguing.

$4,000 came from SAIC - two checks on June 6 and the other on June 30.

Comments



You left out the other half of the story... (Bwana - 7/18/2007 8:59:28 AM)
...that is that Judy's $$ is still hugely from large donors (only $3k of her contributions were not itemized), they were hugely from out of state (only 32 of 148 from Virginia) and massively from outside the Tenth district (only 13 VA10 contributors)...which keeps up her trend as per politicalmoneyline, where they showed 64% of her 2006 money was from out of state.

Money is money, but the numbers to date don't seem to suggest she has developed the grass roots support.