Senate Democrats crushing GOP in fundraising

[Tony_FLADEM]

"Six months into the 2006 election cycle, Senate Democrats have set a torrid fundraising pace and have roughly twice the available campaign cash their GOP counterparts do, soon-to-be filed fundraising reports will show," Roll Call reports.

"Senate Democrats’ fundraising has been buoyed by a variety of factors, including the high-profile battle over judicial nominations and the tenacity and New York fundraising base of DSCC Chairman Charles Schumer."

[Ready4Change]

1. That's a reversal of the usual situation.

Good to see.

[Wetzelbill]

2. 'tis true

[Torgo Johnson]

3. Somebody should e-mail this to Ed Schulz

Not that he would ever apologize to Howard Dean, of course.

[Broken Acorn]

4. What happened to that Businessweek article?

That said Dean can't help fundraise for the Dems with the wealthy donors? Lol, the corporate media strikes again!

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. I'd like to think Dr. Dean has something to do with this

[MaineDem]

6. Dean Brings in over $1 million Each Week since Becoming Chairman

I'm sure you're right. Have you seen this?

For Immediate Release
July 11, 2005

Contact: Karen Finney, 202-863-8148
DNC Raises Record Amount of Money for First Half of the Year

Dean Brings in over $1 million Each Week since Becoming Chairman

Washington, DC - The Democratic National Committee (DNC)'s fundraising for 2005
is off to a strong start. During the first half of the year (January 1 - June
30, 2005), the DNC received $28.5 million in contributions, a record amount of
money for an off-year election cycle. Since becoming chairman in mid-February,
Gov. Howard Dean has brought the passion of the grassroots with him to the DNC
by raising over $1 million a week from approximately 600,000 donations - a
record amount of money for an off-year election cycle.

"$28.5 million from 600,000 donations is a strong, solid beginning," said Dean.
"This proves that Americans want to get Democrats elected in every state and
territory, in every city, in every precinct, at every level of government.
People are eager to get our country back on track and they know they can trust
Democrats to do just that."

Dean has also kept his pledge to invest in state parties:
*The DNC has already committed over $2 million to 16 state parties.
*All 50 states and territories will receive an investment by the end of the
year.
*Dean has appeared at state party fundraisers that have raised more than $1
million for ten state parties.

Online fundraising is also growing at a record rate:

*During this fundraising period, the DNC implemented the "Democracy Bond"
program, a monthly giving initiative.
*To date, over 15,000 people have signed up for Democracy Bonds and more
people continue to sign up every day.
*In the first 24 hours of offering this program, 2-3 people signed up
every minute.
*Online donations are five times stronger than the last off-year
election cycle.

The DNC has approximately $9 million cash on hand.

[Larkspur]

7. The DSCC is chaired by Sen. Schumer, not Howard Dean

The DSCC and DNC are seperate entities.

It is possible that Dean has helped the DSCC, but I don't know of any article pointing that out. The AP has publised that Dean's DNC has outraised McAwful's 2003 fundraising campaign so far.

It's very possible that some of those sourpuss corporate donors that hate Dean and/or are worried about losing access to writing legislation should the Dems retake the senate have contributed to the DSCC.

Does opensecrets.org report on DSCC fundraising or just individual senators?