Tea Partier Outraises Griffith Over Period of Party Switch
Tuesday, February 02, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Alabama Congressman Parker Griffith’s Dec. 22 switch from the Democratic Party to the GOP hasn’t played out terribly well so far. And here’s another piece of bad news for him: During a period of time that included Griffith’s surprise switch, Griffith’s primary challenger managed to outraise the incumbent. Tea Party Republican Les Phillip raised $228,534 from October to December 2009, while Griffith raised just $172,004, according to the Federal Election Commission.
Griffith also shelled out $19,550 in refunds last quarter, most of which went to Democratic supporters who wanted their money back after Griffith joined the GOP.
So, are these numbers a sign of fundraising struggles to come for Griffith or future GOP strength for Phillip?
Well, before Phillip supporters get too excited, check out Griffith’s overall totals: $1,074,727 raised and $714,835 on hand. Phillip reported $364,138 raised and $66,108 on hand. And Phillip’s total raised includes a personal loan in the amount of $50,341.
One expense Griffith will definitely be saving: those National Democratic Club membership dues he’s been reporting to the FEC.
h/t TWI reader Steve
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5 Comments
Comment posted February 2, 2010 @ 6:08 pm
Les Phillip is a good friend and a great candidate, and I will be doing EVERYTHING I can do to make him my next congressman. Parker Griffith can't buy honor, and Les Phillip has honor by the truckload.
Comment posted February 3, 2010 @ 4:42 pm
Your article neglected to mention 8-time elected public official Mo Brooks . . . who is also a GOP Primary candidate for Congress and who has 3 times as much money in the bank as Les Phillip.
Mo Brooks is the only conservative running who has a track record to prove he is a conservative.
While Les Phillip's professional fundraiser raised a lot . . . your article also neglects to mention that 80% of what was raised . . . was paid to professional fundraising costs (i.e. – $1.00 raised, 20 cents kept).
How would you like to be a contributor . . . thinking your contribution is going to a candidate . . . only to discover that only 20 cents of every dollar went to the candidate?
And where does this “Tea Party Republican Les Phillip” moniker come from? Les Phillip?
Mo Brooks has been invited to speek at more Tea Party events than Les Phillip in the 5th Congressional District, was the emcee of the largest Tea Party event in the district in 2009, and has more Tea Party support than Les Phillip.
Les Phillip seems like a good guy but, with no publicly known job or political history from 1992 to 2010 . . . voters will not vote for him in enough numbers to make a difference.
Comment posted February 6, 2010 @ 11:12 am
Mo Brooks is the same ole, same ole. If Les has sat on his money like Mo did, Griffith would be our next congressman. If there are two things we cannot afford to send to Washington again, it is a Career Politician and a Lawyer. Oops, Mo is both!
Comment posted February 16, 2010 @ 1:17 pm
Hmm Does Mo Brooks voters ever tell the truth. He could NOT even in what he claims as home county win a DA race-he was DA because he was appointed-not because people wanted him. He was thrown out as soon as voters got the chance-but y'all forget to mention that. You also forget to mention even though he got 20000.00 in Lt Gov campaign-(hmm why would a Construction Firm in WI give a local yokel county commissioner 20000.00 but that is off subject) in that race he got stomped proving that he can NOT win a election except a local yokel race-like county commissioner-where only people he has fed pork to can vote.
Next point the man is a bigoted racist. I will refer you to his FB page, an article in Times Daily in Florence, not to mention he has repeated this numerous times in public…. My plan is to tax businesses that hire Aliens (not illegals BUT Aliens). Now sorry Mo, taxing businesses raising there cost is NOT being a fiscal conservative. Further this country was founded on immigration & majority of Americans do not have an issue with legal immigrants. There is blantant false statements-they do not cost the taxpayers a dime-FYI green card workers pay taxes, duh!!!! They also especially in Huntsville area where there is many Candian workers contribute to the spending in the community.
It really amused me to see the ignorance. Mo has not been a speaker at more Tea Party events. He was NOT emcee he was 1 of the speakers (& a boring one at that) & as for the absurd comment that he has more Tea Party Support than Les Phillip, you might want to check about that. Just like all Tea Party members across the country worked together to get Scott Brown elected (which by the way Mo Brooks nor none of his little moettes participated in) the Tea Party conservatives are banding together to work for Les. Try & spin it anyway you want…bottom line is Mo is nothing but a small time local yokel politician that wants to go play with the big boys-literally since he is too much of a politician to even know the enemy (as he recently said oh just fight all day & then go play tennis/chess with them) duh….they are the enemy…sounds like obama policy to me.
Comment posted February 16, 2010 @ 6:17 pm
Hmm Does Mo Brooks voters ever tell the truth. He could NOT even in what he claims as home county win a DA race-he was DA because he was appointed-not because people wanted him. He was thrown out as soon as voters got the chance-but y'all forget to mention that. You also forget to mention even though he got 20000.00 in Lt Gov campaign-(hmm why would a Construction Firm in WI give a local yokel county commissioner 20000.00 but that is off subject) in that race he got stomped proving that he can NOT win a election except a local yokel race-like county commissioner-where only people he has fed pork to can vote.
Next point the man is a bigoted racist. I will refer you to his FB page, an article in Times Daily in Florence, not to mention he has repeated this numerous times in public…. My plan is to tax businesses that hire Aliens (not illegals BUT Aliens). Now sorry Mo, taxing businesses raising there cost is NOT being a fiscal conservative. Further this country was founded on immigration & majority of Americans do not have an issue with legal immigrants. There is blantant false statements-they do not cost the taxpayers a dime-FYI green card workers pay taxes, duh!!!! They also especially in Huntsville area where there is many Candian workers contribute to the spending in the community.
It really amused me to see the ignorance. Mo has not been a speaker at more Tea Party events. He was NOT emcee he was 1 of the speakers (& a boring one at that) & as for the absurd comment that he has more Tea Party Support than Les Phillip, you might want to check about that. Just like all Tea Party members across the country worked together to get Scott Brown elected (which by the way Mo Brooks nor none of his little moettes participated in) the Tea Party conservatives are banding together to work for Les. Try & spin it anyway you want…bottom line is Mo is nothing but a small time local yokel politician that wants to go play with the big boys-literally since he is too much of a politician to even know the enemy (as he recently said oh just fight all day & then go play tennis/chess with them) duh….they are the enemy…sounds like obama policy to me.
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