January 31, 2008 - 4:00pm
Collins, Allen report fundraising figures
By Alex IsenstadtThe U.S. Senate campaigns of Republican Susan Collins and Democrat Tom Allen are announcing their fourth quarter fundraising numbers.
Collins raised $963,073 in the fourth quarter. She has raised $4.564 million to date and has $3.913 million on hand.
"Senator Collins is very grateful for the support that she has received," said Elissa Davidson, a Collins campaign spokesperson. "We have already seen that out-of-state special interest groups are going to spend vast amounts of money in Maine attacking Senator Collins. The money she has raised for her reelection effort will allow her to wage a vigorous, issues-oriented campaign in response."
Allen’s campaign reported raising $813,000 in the fourth quarter. He has raised about $3 million to date and has $2.5 million on hand.
"Tom Allen is committed to bringing our troops safely home from Iraq, making sure every Mainer has health care coverage, cutting taxes for the middle class, ending our foreign oil addiction and investing in clean energies to stem climate change. Our ability to raise more than half of our anticipated budget the year before the election is a direct response to that commitment and record of leadership," said Allen Campaign Communications Director Carol Andrews.
"People want change, and they know that electing Tom Allen to the U.S. Senate will bring them the change they seek. Our campaign contributions for the last quarter came almost entirely from individuals in modest amounts," she added.
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It is pretty amusing to see the media pay attention to itself and to the money. Money is what is pumped in from the desperate corporate and special interests. It does not equate to votes. How do you explain Huckabee in Iowa or McCain on top with the least money and the wheels falling off the straight talk express? You can't.
What you are trying to do is create the aura of inevitability. You don't need the money for getting out your message if you know how to stretch a dollar. What you need is inspiration and money isn't inspired.
You think though, apparently, that you can replace inspiration and leadership with the dirty dollar- and you assume that you can corrupt people with it as easily as you yourselves have been bought by the lure of the golden calf. Well I don't believe that it will help in this race. I think it is repugnant; just when we want clean elections, you bring your dirty money into Maine. Try to be creative instead of consumptive!
You can't even control the message anymore--the people have found a way around your corporate media and we can see right through your biased blogs. So don't think you will control this race. It is not in your hands. I wouldn't take your money even if I wanted to and I'm much the better for it, thank you very much! I have not been corrupted by this process and I value that above the easy money that is out there ready to control what you can or can't say.
Don't you think that the money isn't readily available if a person is only willing to bow to the pressures to stop talking about the people's interests? I have been approached, and people have tried to buy me off. I'm just not for sale. There is a lot of time in this race yet, and the people will hear us. The arc of the universe is long, plenty long, but it nevertheless does incline toward justice. You guys who obsess about the money will never understand about justice until you lay down your obsesssion and start covering the campaigns the old fashioned way--by investigation and discernment. Be better at what you do! Try a little integrity!
Laurie Dobson
Maine's Independent for US Senate
www.dobsonforsenate.com
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