CA-04: Brown With An Amazing Haul

potentially misleady Doolittle numbers (8.00 / 1)

Remember, Doolittle still has 34758.66 in debt, which means he is only in the black by about $3K.

This is really more than a 100:1 CoH advantage for the challenger.

And the bonus points are that Doolittle's debt is owed to his wife, not him, so he can't forgive it like a loan without proving the case against him.

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by: Bob Brigham @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 21:37:06 PM CDT

He still will (0.00 / 0)

Not repay the debt.  Those things never get paid.  Since political accounts stay open even if someone is not in office, he can just leave it sitting there claiming to be "raising funds to retire the debt".  I'm sure you've gotten one of those letters after the election. 

How happy his wife would be about that is another question...

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by: slowpitch @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 22:28:05 PM CDT

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he has been paying it offf (0.00 / 0)

This is a unique case, which is why Doolittle has been very aggressive about paying down the debt as it hurts his legal case to have it on the books.

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by: Bob Brigham @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 22:54:49 PM CDT

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Other challengers? (0.00 / 0)

Anyone got the other numbers for folks going against doolittle in the primary?  I know we're still 9 months from the primary, but I'm interested to see if there is any kind of pattern of big dogs giving to one or the other of the cands, as in settling on someone as the "official" challenger.

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by: slowpitch @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 22:29:32 PM CDT

as I noted in the post (0.00 / 0)

Egland raised about $79,000.

Mike Holmes, who was the primary challenger last time, raised $12,000.  No information from Ted Gaines yet.

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by: David Dayen @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 22:57:36 PM CDT

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I send Charlie $$$ (8.00 / 1)

Whenever Doolittle gets raided by the FBI or has some other terrible news, Charlie gets $250.  Doolittle's misfortune encourages me.  :-D

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by: chris in sacto @ Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 09:55:43 AM CDT

i have a dream (8.00 / 1)

of a blue northern california, from the blue pacific ocean across the blue waters of the sacramento delta, to the blue waters of lake tahoe.

working on wally herger will be the tough part, but the next redictricting could make things interesting, depending on how ambitious the dems are.

surf putah, your friendly neighborhood central valley samizdat

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by: wu ming @ Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 16:00:31 PM CDT