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Guv candidates ask for cash as deadline looms

The money fight in the gubernatorial race is already well under way, but Monday night’s state campaign finance deadline had the candidates and their campaigns pitching for some last-minute cash.

The post-primary was set to close at midnight, and reports filed later this month will provide the first snapshot of how Democrat Dan Onorato and Republican Tom Corbett are faring in the run-up to the general election. Onorato spent heavily in a competitive four-way primary while Corbett cruised to the GOP nomination, so Corbett is expected to start in the lead.

The Corbett campaign set out to raise $30,000 on Monday.

“Tonight at midnight is a very important fundraising deadline—it is the first fundraising deadline since Tom’s primary victory, and the media and our opponents will use it to determine the strength of our campaign heading into the general election,” Corbett campaign manager Brian Nutt wrote in an e-mail to supporters.

“Unlike our opponent who is more focused on presenting negative attacks,” Nutt wrote, “Tom has already presented real solutions to create jobs as well as reform our state’s government, improve Pennsylvania’s public education system, and make the Commonwealth an energy leader.”

Onorato finance director Mike Butler wrote to supporters that “the stakes have never been higher.”

“Now,” he wrote, “we find ourselves in an even tougher fight against a Republican opponent who rejects Dan’s plan to reform Harrisburg and who lacks the experience to make the state live within its means. We have just a few more hours until the deadline for our latest fundraising report—and we need your help to make it the strongest showing possible.”

Corbett, Butler wrote, “is a typical Harrisburg insider.”

June 7, 2010 at 1:43 pm

--pa2010.com Staff

Tags: Dan Onorato, Tom Corbett

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