Fat Cat McAuliffe Donors Ignore Deeds
They are too busy doing anything else
Brendan Smialowski
Terry McAuliffe discloses the number of bananas he ate yesterday morning. Oh my!
Here's the surprise of the millennium: basically none of the big donors behind Terry McAuliffe's hilarious, failed gubernatorial bid (he lost, calamitously, in the June 9 Democratic primary) have donated a red cent to the Creigh Deeds campaign, probably because most of them were from out of state, and only knew McAuliffe through "other things."
Twenty-nine of these 115 fat cats were from Virginia, so just remember that fact:
Deep-pocket donors who helped fund Terry McAuliffe's unsuccessful bid for the Virginia governor's office are showing much less interest in helping the man who beat him in the Democratic primary - campaign finance records show only two of the 115 donors who gave $10,000 or more to Mr. McAuliffe have so far contributed to state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds.
These 115 folks' donations made up $3.5 million of McAuliffe's whopping $8.2 million total, and all 115 proved to be terrible investments, since McAuliffe lost by 25 percentage points to some nutty country bear.
Still, even though you might expect people who've already dropped $10k+ on some random state's party primary to save their money this time, why can't they just go the other way -- you know, keep throwing insane amounts of money at other Democrats?
Because they're bored, mostly. Check out this poor guy!
But [Radford businessman Randal J.] Kirk, who gave the McAuliffe campaign more than $106,000, told The Washington Times that the race between Mr. Deeds and former Attorney General Robert F. McDonnell simply has not captured his imagination."I haven't yet figured out why I should care very much which of these two candidates is governor," he said. "I think they are both fine individuals. I just don't have any basis to prefer one over the other. I may not get involved at all."
And yet what was it about the McAuliffe for Governor 2009 campaign that compelled him to fork over $106,000? These people, they're nuts, all of them.
Jim Newell writes for Wonkette and IvyGate.
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Posted Thursday, Jul 23, 2009 - 6:32 AM EST
