AZ--03: Ben Quayle's dem opponent sticks $250,000 of own $ after good internal poll #'s

[WI_DEM]

Ben Quayle’s Democratic opponent is sinking another $250,000 of his own money into the race for Arizona's 3rd Congressional District seat after a new internal poll showed the contest in a dead heat.

Phoenix businessman Jon Hulburd put the additional quarter-million into his campaign account Wednesday so he can continue running ads through Nov. 2, his campaign told POLITICO. The new money brings Hulburd’s total personal investment to $500,000, all invested in the last month of the race.
Arizona Democratic insiders said a new Hulburd internal poll — taken after a Public Policy Polling survey for the liberal blog Daily Kos showed Hulburd up 2 percentage points over the former vice president's son — shows the difference between the two men is within the margin of error as the race enters its final days. It's a big shift from a different internal taken several weeks ago that showed him trailing Quayle.

“Everyone’s really energized" about the poll, said Jennifer Johnson, spokeswoman for the Arizona Democratic Party. Johnson said the race would come down to how strong Hulburd's field and get-out-the-vote operations are.

The cash infusion helped Hulburd cut a new Web ad highlighting his work at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, but the bulk will go toward continuing to hammer Quayle for his ties to the salacious website Dirty Scottsdale. Quayle wrote several posts for the site in 2007, and Hulburd’s final ad claims Quayle is better suited for a frat house than the U.S. House.







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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Interesting take.

If by "interesting" I mean bullshit.

[LiberalFighter]

2. I hope the campaign receives more volunteers to help.

[DesertFlower]

3. hopefully he will be my new congressman.

[WI_DEM]

4. Do you get the sense that it's as close as some polls are showing?

[DesertFlower]

5. it's hard to tell. i didn't think he had

a chance, but the polls are making me hopeful. it's still very "red" in this district.