{"id":11033,"date":"2010-02-02T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-02T17:06:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:06:59","slug":"cagov-jerry-browns-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/02\/cagov-jerry-browns-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"CA-GOV: Jerry Brown’s Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jerry Brown sent out a very bland email yesterday trumpeting his financial success to spam boxes across the state<\/a>.  Not that it isn’t big news or anything, he’s got a fairly large chunk of cash. Apparently, Google’s spam filter thought the message was just too boring.  The numbers themselves say something quite clearly.<\/p>\n

 * 4.9 million raised since July 1, 2009
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 * $8.3 million raised for all 2009
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 * $12.1 million cash on hand<\/p>\n

This says a few things. First, that Brown’s burn rate is remarkably low. He’s spent just over a third of a million dollars<\/a> in this campaign.  Dude is seriously cheap.  You could say that is a good thing, but as Robert pointed out yesterday<\/a>, Brown needs to start reaching out to younger voters.  He can traffic on his fame from the 1970s for only so long. At some point he needs to spend a bit of cash to, you know, let the state know that he’s running for something.<\/p>\n

These would be very impressive numbers, in any other year. However, given that whichever Republican wins what is looking like a bloody primary<\/a> will still have plenty of cash.  In the likely event of a Whitman victory, she has said that she intends on spending $150 million of her own money to buy the race.  Ordinarily, Brown’s numbers would be a pretty solid pace.<\/p>\n

But this year isn’t your ordinary year, and Whitman isn’t your ordinary Republican.  But, don’t worry, Jerry Brown will run an aggressive campaign…for whatever office he’s running for. <\/p>\n

“Jerry Brown has a broad network of supporters all across the state of California,” said Brown Campaign Manager Steve Glazer. “We expect to have the resources to mount an aggressive campaign in 2010.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jerry Brown sent out a very bland email yesterday trumpeting his financial success to spam boxes across the state<\/a>.  Not that it isn’t big news or anything, he’s got a fairly large chunk of cash. Apparently, Google’s spam filter thought the message was just too boring.  The numbers themselves say something quite clearly.<\/p>\n

 * 4.9 million raised since July 1, 2009
\n
 * $8.3 million raised for all 2009
\n
 * $12.1 million cash on hand<\/p>\n

This says a few things. First, that Brown’s burn rate is remarkably low. He’s spent just over a third of a million dollars<\/a> in this campaign.  Dude is seriously cheap.  You could say that is a good thing, but as Robert pointed out yesterday<\/a>, Brown needs to start reaching out to younger voters.  He can traffic on his fame from the 1970s for only so long. At some point he needs to spend a bit of cash to, you know, let the state know that he’s running for something.<\/p>\n

These would be very impressive numbers, in any other year. However, given that whichever Republican wins what is looking like a bloody primary<\/a> will still have plenty of cash.  In the likely event of a Whitman victory, she has said that she intends on spending $150 million of her own money to buy the race.  Ordinarily, Brown’s numbers would be a pretty solid pace.<\/p>\n

But this year isn’t your ordinary year, and Whitman isn’t your ordinary Republican.  But, don’t worry, Jerry Brown will run an aggressive campaign…for whatever office he’s running for. <\/p>\n

“Jerry Brown has a broad network of supporters all across the state of California,” said Brown Campaign Manager Steve Glazer. “We expect to have the resources to mount an aggressive campaign in 2010.”<\/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":[204],"tags":[415,4467],"class_list":["post-11033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-204","tag-415","tag-4467"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2RX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11033","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=11033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}