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Meehan’s best quarter leaves him with $1.5M
Republican Pat Meehan’s congressional campaign said Monday that it raised more than $725,000 in the third quarter of the year, marking his best fundraising period to date and potentially giving him a key financial edge in the closing days before the election.
Meehan, who has been the GOP’s fundraising star in Pennsylvania this cycle, said he finished September with more than $1.5 million in the bank. Assuming he begins airing TV ads soon, that number will likely be considerably lower by the time he formally reports the figure later this month. Meehan’s campaign says it has raised more than $2.3 million since he entered the race last fall.
Democrat Bryan Lentz, Meehan’s opponent in the competitive 7th District House race, had not yet released any fundraising tallies early Monday afternoon, and campaign finance reports are not due until Oct. 15. Meehan has enjoyed a steady but not overwhelming financial advantage throughout the campaign. Lentz has already been airing TV ads for a few weeks.
“I am deeply grateful for the tremendous support our campaign has received,” Meehan said in a statement. “This support will help us deliver a strong message of lower taxes, smaller government and our commitment to creating jobs going into Election Day.”
October 4, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Tags: Bryan Lentz, PA-7, Pat Meehan













conrad birdie
Oct 4th, 2010
Lentz trails in the polls,trails in volunteers(everybody that’s worth anything working for joe s) really trails in fundraising. Bye Bye Bryan!
Enjoy that hybrid while it lasts.
Johnny Congress
Oct 4th, 2010
Haha, thats some political analysis.
Heres mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeFTN1u0MSE
David Diano
Oct 4th, 2010
conrad-
If Sestak had lost the Primary, those volunteers would be helping Lentz win, instead of wasting their efforts on Sestak who’s getting crushed by Toomey.
Matt M.
Oct 4th, 2010
Stop insulting the Navy, Diano.
linda
Oct 4th, 2010
he will need every nickel to get lyin’ bryan.
anon
Oct 4th, 2010
and just which campaign is under criminal investigation?
sue
Oct 4th, 2010
Oh, for goodness sake, you guys!!!There are LOTS of folks working for Lentz AND for Sestak because they are determined not to be represented by corporate shill republicans like Toomey and Meehan.
I happen to be one of them!
charlie
Oct 4th, 2010
Probably Obama’s
charlie
Oct 4th, 2010
If it wasn’t for the corporations, where would most of the jobs come from?
charlie
Oct 4th, 2010
You bring down the corporations, you bring down this country.
Barack Obama
Oct 4th, 2010
Charlie?!?!?! How did you know? I was hoping that your lack of concrete information would keep you quiet – I am indeed under ongoing investigation for petition fraud in Pennsylvania’s seventh congressional district. I mean hey, who isn’t?
Former Dem
Oct 5th, 2010
How dumb can the uninformed people of Delco be? Pat Meehan has as much right to be on the ballot as Hitler. His petitions were forged and I can prove how they were forged in Upper Darby by a woman that seemed to not to know better. Almost sounds like the typical voter in Delco.
SeaBee
Oct 5th, 2010
David Diano is a liberal/progressive doppelganger for the Republican disaffected tea partier.
So angry that his own party elected someone that he does not like in the primary, that he will happily seek that candidate’s loss in the general election. Even at the expense of his own party.
See the holier-than-thou, sanctimonious, self-proclaimed “true conservatives” quietly pining for Mike Fitzpatrick’s defeat in PA-8 for comparison.
Politics is funny that way.
David Diano
Oct 5th, 2010
SeaBee-
I’d like to see Schneller in the debate because he unabashedly represents what the Tea Party and Republicans are all about. His presence would expose Meehan and force him to articulate where he stands, rather than just attack Lentz as a liberal.
I’m not “happily seeking” Sestak’s loss. I’m merely acknowledging the reality and encouraging my fellow Dems and liberals to put their resources into races that are winnable. SESTAK is the one that has operated at the “expense of his own party”. That Primary cost $10 million dollars and produced the weaker General election candidate (weaker in terms of money, appeal to the center, and experience in fighting Toomey).
Sestak has removed “Democrat” for Senate from his advertising (despite his claim that we need him to lead the ticket for all Democrats).
Sestak has abandoned the coordinated campaign. When interviewed he spit out some stats about how many offices and volunteers he had for his own campaign, and claimed that it was more important to elect him. I guess having the GOP control the Governor’s mansion, and the State House and then redistrict the sh*t out of Pennsylvania isn’t important to a state-wide, Federal candidate like Sestak (whose family lives in Virginia anyway).
It’s a shame you Sestak drones are too busy climbing up Sestak’s ass to see where he has taken the party down the wrong path to serve his own self interests.
SeaBee
Oct 5th, 2010
I can’t stand Sestak – I ain’t no drone!
However, Spector was by no stretch of the imagination a better challenger against Toomey.
But as for your “I gonna invest in other races” shpiel, that is classic Tparty – ie, “I’m gonna support other candidates instead of the RINO (republican in name only) who the party hacks annointed”.
You and the wombats are one and the same. Socialism (“communism”) vs. National Socialism (“Nazism”).