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Cohen vs. Welch: ‘A financial David & Goliath race’

Republican Howard Cohen harbors no illusion that he’ll be able to match Steven Welch’s spending in his bid for the 6th Congressional District. Welch is a wealthy businessman reaching deep into his own wallet to win the party’s nomination, while Cohen has a small business consulting firm run out of his house.

In a primary that also includes two other GOP candidates and involves at least one expensive media market, Cohen said Monday, he hopes to be able to spend about half-a-million dollars.

“This is, in a sense, a financial David and Goliath race, and I will raise enough money to be competitive,” Cohen, who plans to formally declare his candidacy soon, told pa2010.com Monday.

“I cannot self-fund this campaign like others can,” he added, “but we will be competitive because others will hear our message and support.”

In putting together a war chest, Cohen hopes to draw on his years of fundraising experience at Temple University, where he helped in a capital campaign that ended in construction of a new building for the university’s business school.

“I know a little bit about fundraising,” Cohen said.

As for that half-a-million dollar budget? Welch has already loaned his campaign more than that.

November 2, 2009 at 1:04 pm

--Dan Hirschhorn

Tags: Howard Cohen, PA-6, Steven Welch

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