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Hoeffel: Time to catch up
Making its first earnest attempt to raise money from supporters, Democrat Joe Hoeffel’s gubernatorial campaign acknowledged that his political organization is running behind that of other candidates who had been planning to run for months and has lots of leg work to do.
“Frankly, some other candidates for Governor have been building up their war chests for months and even years,” Hoeffel’s campaign manager, Lou Freimiller, said in a fundraising e-mail to supporters. “It is time for us to start catching up—we must make sure that we will have the resources to share Joe’s story with the voters.”
The fundraising entreaty came a day after Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato formally entered the race with about $5 million in campaign cash. Wealthy Philadelphia businessman Tom Knox is expected to spend heavily in pursuit of the Democratic nomination, and state Auditor General Jack Wagner and Scranton Mayor Chris Doherty are also running.
October 7, 2009 at 12:11 pm
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wolfcounsel621
Oct 8th, 2009
Money can’t buy me love…
For all the ballyhoo about Knox and Onorato having gigamounts of money no one is yet able to explain how it is that either one of them is going to enlist to support and admiration of the legions of progressive voters both in Allegheny and Philadelphia counties. Add to that the fact that Hoeffel is widely popular in the SoEast region and the fact that MonCo, BucCo, DelCo and ChesCo have gone blue and I could see how Joe will be catapulted to a respectable fund-raising level in the next few months making this contest significantly more interesting to the vast majority of Dem voters in the state – who insistently happen to live in the same media market that Hoeffel calls his front lawn.
There are few animals as stinky as a DINO!
I for one feel that with Hoeffel in the race Dems now have a real candidate that they can support without having to hold their noses in disgust.
…money can’t buy me love…
obamarox
Oct 8th, 2009
To corporatist Dems, money is the holy grail and therefore the only measure of politics … how much you put in and how much that lets you take out and put in your own pocket. They use the party to profit for themselves. The money changers are in the temple and we must cast them out. Obviously, Onorato has their backing despite his lack of achievements.
RBA
Oct 8th, 2009
Hoeffel’s first contributor was his partner on the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners Jim Matthews who haved him about a half a billion dollars in patronage money to hand out. Those handouts are going to be reciprocating now. Bigtime.