{"id":10276,"date":"2009-10-14T20:12:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T20:12:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-16T03:46:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T03:46:07","slug":"ca03-time-to-take-another-look-at-this-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/14\/ca03-time-to-take-another-look-at-this-race\/","title":{"rendered":"CA-03: Time To Take Another Look at This Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Wow, CA-03 looks like it will be a top race to watch. – promoted by Brian Leubitz<\/i>)<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/b>: Dan Lungren’s data was just released, and once again Dr. Ami Bera has out raised Dan Lungren. This time, Bill Slaton has also outraised Lungren.  Lungren raised $196,872.81 for a total of $443,718.52 Cash on hand.  There are now two formidable opponents for Lungren. Unless the winning candidate drains his finances in the primary, Lungren will face a tough race in 2010. <\/i><\/p>\n

It’s 3rd Quarter fundraising number season for federal candidates, and the data is just beginning to trickle out in front of this week’s deadline.  <\/p>\n

CA-03 is looking ever more intriguing, though. Dan Lungren pulled less than 50% in his 2008 victory over Bill Durston.  However, Durston was always critically low on funding, and really didn’t have the resources to get his message out.<\/p>\n

However, if Dr. Ami Bera grabs the nomination, that will not happen this year. Bera, the former Chief Medical Officer for Sacramento County, released his fundraising results for the third quarter of 2009 today. Dr. Bera’s campaign raised $335,443.00 between July 1st and September 30th. The campaign reported an impressive $585,787.00 in cash-on-hand at the end of the quarter.<\/p>\n

Numbers for the other Democratic nominee, Bill Slaton, and Lungren are not yet available.  Last quarter<\/a>, Bera outraised Lungren, and was only behind in cash on hand by $36K. Slaton wasn’t doing bad himself, but unless he really hit the gas on fundraising, Bera’s big numbers might end up looking very formidable in a primary.<\/p>\n

Money isn’t everything, but for the Congressional campaign of a heretofore unknown candidate, you simply cannot win without substantial monetary resources.  <\/p>\n

I’ll update with numbers from Slaton and Lungren when available.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/b>: Well, well, Slaton’s numbers are also impressive. We might end up with an interesting primary in the district. From his press release:<\/p>\n

Democratic candidate Bill Slaton reported adding $253,418 to his campaign coffers this quarter, bringing his total cash on hand to $398,506. Slaton, the SMUD Board Vice President, green energy advocate and entrepreneur, is running to challenge Republican Congressman Dan Lungren in California’s 3rd District. 69% of the contributors are 3rd Congressional district residents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE<\/b>: Dan Lungren’s data was just released, and once again Dr. Ami Bera has out raised Dan Lungren. This time, Bill Slaton has also outraised Lungren.  Lungren raised $196,872.81 for a total of $443,718.52 Cash on hand.  There are now two formidable opponents for Lungren. Unless the winning candidate drains his finances in the primary, Lungren will face a tough race in 2010. <\/i><\/p>\n

It’s 3rd Quarter fundraising number season for federal candidates, and the data is just beginning to trickle out in front of this week’s deadline.  <\/p>\n

CA-03 is looking ever more intriguing, though. Dan Lungren pulled less than 50% in his 2008 victory over Bill Durston.  However, Durston was always critically low on funding, and really didn’t have the resources to get his message out.<\/p>\n

However, if Dr. Ami Bera grabs the nomination, that will not happen this year. Bera, the former Chief Medical Officer for Sacramento County, released his fundraising results for the third quarter of 2009 today. Dr. Bera’s campaign raised $335,443.00 between July 1st and September 30th. The campaign reported an impressive $585,787.00 in cash-on-hand at the end of the quarter.<\/p>\n

Numbers for the other Democratic nominee, Bill Slaton, and Lungren are not yet available.  Last quarter<\/a>, Bera outraised Lungren, and was only behind in cash on hand by $36K. Slaton wasn’t doing bad himself, but unless he really hit the gas on fundraising, Bera’s big numbers might end up looking very formidable in a primary.<\/p>\n

Money isn’t everything, but for the Congressional campaign of a heretofore unknown candidate, you simply cannot win without substantial monetary resources.  <\/p>\n

I’ll update with numbers from Slaton and Lungren when available.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/b>: Well, well, Slaton’s numbers are also impressive. We might end up with an interesting primary in the district. From his press release:<\/p>\n

Democratic candidate Bill Slaton reported adding $253,418 to his campaign coffers this quarter, bringing his total cash on hand to $398,506. Slaton, the SMUD Board Vice President, green energy advocate and entrepreneur, is running to challenge Republican Congressman Dan Lungren in California’s 3rd District. 69% of the contributors are 3rd Congressional district residents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[7583,7582,486,670],"class_list":["post-10276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-7583","tag-7582","tag-486","tag-670"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2FK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}