CAMPAIGN FINANCE LEFTOVERS: Dahlkemper, Murphy, Schwartz & Thompson

In the hustle and bustle of covering third quarter campaign finance reports, we missed a handful of them.

So here’s a quick rundown of the fundraising hauls reported by incumbents from both parties.

Freshman Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper pSophomore Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-8) made some more headway in rebuilding a campaign war chest that was largely depleted after he spent heavily in the closing weeks before last year’s election, a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00411991/436394/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://query.nictusa.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nictusa.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fdcdev%2Fforms%2FC00411991%2F436394%2F','raising+about+%24308%2C000')" target="_blank"raising about $308,000/a. He’s raised about $1.1 million during the cycle and has about $620,000 on hand./p
pCongresswoman Allyson Schwartz (D-13) a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00389197/436281/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://query.nictusa.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nictusa.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fdcdev%2Fforms%2FC00389197%2F436281%2F','raised+about+%24231%2C000')" target="_blank">raised about $231,000, and has almost $2.6 million on hand, a sum that eclipses Republican opponent …

October 18, 2009 at 1:01 am | Comments (3)

Altmire, Murphy get Republican opponents

Two sophomore House Democrats have now seen their first 2010 Republican challengers formally come forward.

Pittsburgh lawyer Keith Rothfus, a former official at the Department of Homeland Security, announced Tuesday that he had filed paperwork to run against Congressman Jason Altmire in the 4th District. And Warrington computer consultant Jeffrey Schott told pa2010.com that he is running against Congressman Patrick Murphy in the 8th District.

Altmire is in a district that the GOP has badly …

September 29, 2009 at 5:40 pm | Comments (4)

Murphy endorses Pike in PA-6

Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-8) on Wednesday endorsed Doug Pike for Congress in the 6th District, giving the former Inquirer editorial writer another measure of early support as he looks to lock up the Democratic nomination early.

“We need more leaders like Doug Pike to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us in Congress, to create green jobs, to get our economy moving again and to get our fiscal house back in order,” Murphy told reporters on a conference …

July 15, 2009 at 11:22 am | Comments (0)

Murphy’s late-campaign spending makes a Senate race less likely

A month before winning his second term, Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-8) was flush with over $2.2 million in campaign cash. But then he went on a late-campaign spending spree, burning through cash in the final weeks before Election Day. He spent more than $1.5 million between the beginning of October and the end of November, …

April 21, 2009 at 10:31 am | Comments (0)

1Q fundraising roundup

The Congressional fundraising numbers are in, and in the Senate race, Senator Arlen Specter is the winner. He raised $1.3 million on his way to a total of $6.7 million in his campaign coffers. However, he is not the biggest surprise of the quarter.

Although Allyson Schwartz (D-13) pulled in a strong as usual fundraising haul ($379k), bringing her total to $2.1 million and Patrick Murphy (D-8) has a low total of $252,000 in the bank, neither of them are the big surprise of the quarter.

The surprise of the 2009 year so far is Rep. Joe Sestak (D-7). He hauled in around $550,000, bringing his total to more than $3, 3 million. This is shocking, considering he is a second-term member of Congress who has already equaled Pennsylvania’s version of Terry McAuliffe, Democrat Joe Torsella, for a potential run at Arlen Specter. The other good news for Sestak is that the recent rise in piracy has gained him a lot of media attention, being a former Vice Admiral in the Navy.

April 21, 2009 at 10:13 am | Comments (0)