Nixon outraised Hulshof by $2 million in general election
The 30-day after election reports are filing in with the Missouri Ethics Commission today, and the top of the ticket shows no surprise.
Gov.-elect Jay Nixon, who won the governor’s race over Republican Kenny Hulshof by more than 18 percentage points, raised about $2 million more than Hulshof just during the general election period. Nixon started with a big financial lead as well, as Hulshof had to spend much of his money in his bruising primary win over Treasurer Sarah Steelman.
In the general election, Nixon raised more than $7.6 million. He still reports $357,000 on hand. Combined with the nearly $10 million he raised up to the primary, he raised about $17 million in his election effort, setting a new Missouri record for a governor’s race.
Starting in October, Nixon started handing out some of his campaign funds to other Democrats. He gave $100,000 to the Missouri Democratic Party, $75,000 to treasurer-elect Clint Zweifel, $25,000 each to attorney general-elect Chris Koster and lieutenant governor candidate Sam Page.
Some Democrats have been grumbling that if Nixon had spent more of his money, the party might have done better in House and Senate races.
So where’s the usual whine about the corrupting influence of money in politics? Unlike Obama, Nixon did NOT raise his in million of small contributions from ordinary folk like me - he raised it with big checks from special interests. Perhaps somebody at the Post could take a few minutes off from reading Blunt’s emails to do some analysis of Nixon’s contributions.
Another good reason Paul LeVota and Mike Talboy need to rethink returning the fund raising caps. It just proves what I’ve been saying all alone–Democrats can raise just as much as Republicans if they work at it.
and they say, “money can’t buy happiness”.
Nick…It’s the business of politics. You can search for Nixon’s campaign contributors as easy as the PD. What you will find is that the same businesses and corporations who contributed to Kit Bond in 1998, in an effort to defeat Jay Nixon for the U.S. Senate, suddenly had a change of heart and threw their money to Jay….An 18 point lead in the polls will make strange bedfellows.
In the world of bussiness and politics…it’s easy to support a winner you don’t like, than a loser you do…Too bad Nixon isn’t going to cave-in to the Republican anti-worker corporate philosophy.
Garrison, my how you change your tune when it’s a Democrat. So now two myths have been dispelled. One, that a black man can’t get elected president and, two, that Democrats aren’t rich.
I never said a black man can’t get elected president, and I never said the Democrats aren’t rich. I said Democrats don’t represent the lifestlyes of the rich and famous… Republicans do.
Democrats represent working people.
Garrison, when have Democrats ever looked after working people. They say it, but then they raise taxes and they hurt companies that employ the working class. That is a myth and you know it.