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Campaign Finance Reports Show the Party of the Rich Is Outraising Republicans

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by Jeanine Martin

As usual the party of the rich, Democrats, is outraising Republicans in the commonwealth election scheduled for November 7th. The September financial reports for all candidates and committees can be found here. If things don’t turn around in the next three weeks Republicans will have a difficult time flipping the State Senate and keeping the House of Delegates.

Competitive State Senate districts (source VPAP.org):

SD-16

  • Siobhan Dunnavant (R)
    • Raised: $1,259,177
      • Youngkin’s Spirit of Virginia gave her $727,000.
    • COH: $493,052
  • Schuyler VanValkenburg (D)
    • Raised: $785,233
      • Sonjia Smith gave his campaign $50,000.
    • COH: $408,385

SD-17

  • Emily Brewer (R)
  • Clint Jenkins (D)

SD-22

  • Kevin Adams (R)
  • Aaron Rouse (D)

SD-24

  • Danny Diggs (R)
    • Raised: $725,666
      • The RSLC gave his campaign $345,000.
    • COH: $285,041
  • Monty Mason (D)
    • Raised: $1,233,585
      • The Senate Democratic Caucus gave his campaign $250,000.
    • COH: $225,988

SD-27

  • Tara Durant (R)
    • Raised: $361,356
      • The RSLC gave her campaign $130,000.
    • COH: $99,874
  • Monica Gary (I)
  • Joel Griffin (D)
    • Raised: $642,661
      • The Senate Democratic Caucus gave his campaign $275,000.
    • COH: $46,757

SD-30

  • Danica Roem (D)
  • Bill Woolf (R)

SD-31

  • Russet Perry (D)
    • Raised: $1,624,983
      • The Senate Democratic Caucus gave her campaign $520,000.
    • COH: $461,967
  • Juan Pablo Segura (R)
    • Raised: $1,075,450
      • Youngkin’s Spirit of Virginia gave his campaign $250,000.
    • COH: $26,354

SD-31 is my district, where Republican Juan Pablo Segura desperately needs money and volunteers if he is to be competitive. As you can see above, his opponent has out-raised him and now has far more cash on hand, Perry has $461,967 and Segura a mere $26,354. That explains why Perry is able to afford nearly constant television ads lying about Segura. (He does not want to make abortion illegal.) Please give Juan any money and time you can spare.

In my House district 30, Democrat Robert Banse has far out-raised Republican Geary Higgins. This tells us where Banse is getting the money for all the ads saying Higgins was part of the January 6th demonstration at the Capitol, and even helped lead it! Higgins wasn’t even there. Higgins also needs our money and time if Republicans are to win and keep the House of Delegates.

Unlike the Democrats’ national committees, the RNC won’t give Virginia Republicans a dime to help the GOP win in three weeks. So the party needs the grassroots to help win this one.

Republished with permission from The Bull Elephant. 

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56 responses to “Campaign Finance Reports Show the Party of the Rich Is Outraising Republicans”

  1. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
    James Wyatt Whitehead

    Senate District 31 is the jackpot prize for November. It will be the gauge to determine if all of this cash blowing around did any good for the candidates.

  2. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    Nah, that just goes to show how ungrateful the top 0.1%, who got 83% of Trump’s massive debt generating tax breaks, are to the Republicans.

    Maybe it’s more than just money. Maybe the rich are woke, or don’t like being called woke.

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      Ooh, oooh! So much for “trickle down”, eh?

  3. Kathleen Smith Avatar
    Kathleen Smith

    Part of the Rich? Seriously? I live in Petersburg, close to 99.9% democrat and the same for poverty (80%).

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      Sarcasm maybe? Whaddaya think?

      1. Eric the half a troll Avatar
        Eric the half a troll

        Gaslighting

    2. how_it_works Avatar
      how_it_works

      The party of the economic extremes. The party of the rich in places like Arlington and Alexandria, the party of the poor in places like Manassas and Dumfries.

      1. Teddy007 Avatar
        Teddy007

        No one ever asks the question of why Northern Virginia went from being a place where Republicans could win such as Tom Davis to a place where a Republican cannot get elected dog catcher because the Republicans are so hated.

        1. Not Today Avatar
          Not Today

          I think familiarity with and proximity to elected Republicans from across the country has bred contempt.

        2. how_it_works Avatar
          how_it_works

          The only question about Northern Virginia that matters to me is when I’ll be able to leave.

          1. Teddy007 Avatar
            Teddy007

            Snark never works in politics. Unless one is leaving Virginia, the issues remain.

          2. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            There are 50 states. I’m not one who believes that Virginia is the best of them (for me, anyway).

          3. Teddy007 Avatar
            Teddy007

            All states have issues. It is like the people who move to Texas for state tax purposes but then move to Austin which is one of the bluest areas of the state. They never seem to move to Lubbock or Amarillo that are some of the reddest areas of the state.

          4. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            Some states have issues I can deal with.

          5. DJRippert Avatar
            DJRippert

            Two of my five sons have moved from NoVa to Dallas.

            They both love it there.

          6. Teddy007 Avatar
            Teddy007

            Actually to Dallas or in some far flung suburb around Dallas? There is a huge difference.

            While Visiting Dallas in 2021, I was amazed that the suburbs that were considered the good suburbs in 1985 are now majority Hispanic while the non-Hispanic whites keep moving further out such as to Frisco or Allen.

          7. DJRippert Avatar
            DJRippert

            Frisco and Prosper. Far flung suburbs.

          8. Teddy007 Avatar
            Teddy007

            Not exactly Dallas and prosper is a long way out. I remember when Denton was considered separate from DFW.

          9. DJRippert Avatar
            DJRippert

            Well, Leesburg isn’t exactly DC although people from Leesburg, when speaking with people far away, Will usually claim they live in “DC”. Over the 40 years I continually traveled, I’d tell people from Richmond that I was from Great Falls but people from England (or LA, for that matter) that I was from “DC”.

          10. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            “the suburbs that were considered the good suburbs in 1985 are now majority Hispanic”

            Sounds a bit like Manassas. Someone must have thought Manassas was a good suburb back in the 80s the way they built houses there.

          11. Teddy007 Avatar
            Teddy007

            Remember when PG county MD had enough white students to justify having a mandatory busing programs for the schools.
            One of the reasons that a much higher percentage of whites in Texas automatically vote for the Republicans is those same whites remember attending a public school decades ago that was considered a good school but then became majority black and is now majority Mexican-American. The other thing Texas has is the mandatory top 10% rule where every high school (public or private) has to rank their students first to last. At graduations and senior year celebration, the white parents get a very in your face view of how race-based affirmative action works and they resent it.

          12. Dick Hall-Sizemore Avatar
            Dick Hall-Sizemore

            Does being Hispanic automatically make them not “good”?

          13. Teddy007 Avatar
            Teddy007

            As the Hispanic population grows, there is white flight. And with white (and Asian flight) the quality of the local schools begins to go down due to not being able to hire teachers to not offering AP/IB classes to not having parental support for things like athletic or band boosters. As mentioned by others, look at Manassas in 2023 as compared to 30 years ago. Would any non-hispanic white parent really want to send their children to Manassas Park High School?

            As a test, find the best high school in the DC area that is majority Hispanics. The high out how many majority white high schools have better test scores and rankings.

          14. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            sometimes one does get than impression.

          15. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            must like the traffic and weather better?

          16. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            SEVA is okay. You could take a 10 to 15% haircut and still be ahead.

            Met a fella years ago lived in MD and taught at UofM. For several years CNU asked if he’d take a position. The year he was eligible to retire, CNU asked again and offered him 80% of what he was making. He took it.

            His statement to me, “Damn, should’ve taken the first offer ten years earlier.”

            It’s a QoL issue.

          17. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            It absolutely is a QoL issue, but I also don’t like the summer heat and humidity. I can’t imagine that SEVA would be any better in that regard!

          18. WayneS Avatar
            WayneS

            For the most part SEVA is worse than NOVA from a heat and humidity standpoint.

            The climate in Virginia Beach is, and always has been, more like Charleston, South Carolina (except for the gators) than any other part of Virginia . VB’s got plenty of Spanish Moss, though, and you don’t see much of that anywhere else in Virginia.

          19. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            cottonmouths instead of rattlesnakes…

          20. Eric the half a troll Avatar
            Eric the half a troll

            Exactly what we are asking… 😉

  4. DJRippert Avatar
    DJRippert

    Why is it that the government harasses tech companies like Google, X, and Facebook over misinformation but gives TV stations a free ride when it comes to political commercials.

    Juan Segura does not want to make abortion illegal.

    “My belief is that we need to find compassionate consensus on the issue of abortion, and that’s why I’m supporting the governor’s plan of a limit of abortion up to 15 weeks with exceptions for rape, incest and the life of mother,” Segura said.

    And speaking of disinformation, this was posted on BlueVirginia in a main post on Sept 7, 2023 … “MAGA Republicans like Juan Pablo Segura want to ban abortions in Virginia.”

    Why do Democrats lie so much?

    https://bluevirginia.us/2023/09/video-russet-perry-campaign-releases-first-tv-ad-for-the-commonwealth

    1. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
      James Wyatt Whitehead

      Tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth. Democrat way. See the last 160 years.

      1. LarrytheG Avatar
        LarrytheG

        Geeze James… speaking of LIES:

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/83d9f4bc5c7c0d5252e045938d845ae1b846960bcedfd6c0bda646e848768799.png

    2. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      Will the Republicans really be satisfied with one bite at the apple? 15 weeks tomorrow, 6 next year, total ban by 2026.

      1. LarrytheG Avatar
        LarrytheG

        is it a “lie” to tell voters that you “just” want 15 weeks and that is all so elect me?

        1. Nancy Naive Avatar
          Nancy Naive

          “Abortion is a moral aberration! It’s murder! But, you can have 15 weeks.”

          Wow! Strong religious beliefs you got there, Elmer.

          1. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            but sometimes you have to lie when trying to get your beliefs made into law, no?

          2. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            Well, not exactly what Youngkin said to the girl about his position on abortion, but that was the gist.

    3. LarrytheG Avatar
      LarrytheG

      It’s real easy to tell about abortion. A large majority of Dems STILL support Roe. How about the GOP? liar. liar. pants on fire! What did Segura say about abortion PRIOR to the election? How about his major contributors? What are their positions on abortion? The truth? Indeed!

  5. Dick Hall-Sizemore Avatar
    Dick Hall-Sizemore

    Democrats the party of the rich? Give me a break. Governor Youngkin has brought in records of amount of money. Two out-of-state billionaires recently gave him a total of $3 million.

    https://dailyprogress.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/report-billionaire-donates-2-million-as-youngkins-pac-sets-record-pace/article_d948df3f-ef79-5ced-a381-cda32b5b29c6.html

    The national Republican party has not provided any funding to Virginia candidates because the Youngkin campaign told them earlier in the year that Virginia would not need any money from the national committee.

    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/rnc-denies-virginia-gops-request-this-week-for-cash-ahead-of-2023-elections/

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      And still mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money…
      https://americanindependent.com/out-of-state-donors-virginia-glenn-youngkin-anti-abortion-crusade/?link_id=4&can_id=1bac8bb95cde8a31482cb0de657ff12d&source=email-release-dlcc-announces-additional-six-figure-investment-into-virginia-house-tying-legislative-elections-to-national-republicans-inability-to-govern-2&email_referrer=email_2081737&email_subject=release-the-democratic-legislative-campaign-committee-on-gov-youngkins-two-day-closed-door-donor-retreat

      Can’t wait for the Red Fleecing fundraiser, ironically the Red Vest Retreat should not be confused with the Red Sweater Project…. Ever

    2. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
      James Wyatt Whitehead

      It is amazing to see how much dough is being dumped into Virginia elections for what was once small change races. Just 20 years ago, a person running for the house of delegates or the senate did so on a shoestring budget.

      1. Eric the half a troll Avatar
        Eric the half a troll

        You want this kind of money and attention out of Virginia elections? Shift them by one year…

    3. Teddy007 Avatar
      Teddy007

      The wealthiest zip codes in Virginia vote in majority for Democrats. The poor white rural counties vote overwhelmingly for Republicans. Look it up.

      1. LarrytheG Avatar
        LarrytheG

        Right. But what about the PACs like Youngkins?

        1. Teddy007 Avatar
          Teddy007

          Mostly out of state money. But then again, there are rich out of state liberals donating to Democratic Party candidates.

          1. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            yup. “both sides” – but Youngkin started it by saying he wanted to win both houses… 😉

          2. Teddy007 Avatar
            Teddy007

            Any Republican governor would want the Republicans to win both houses in order to pass more Republican friendly legislation. And if the Republicans hit the trifecta, they can effectively ban abortion and there is nothing the Democrats can do about it for at least four years.

          3. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            exactly!

          4. Dick Hall-Sizemore Avatar
            Dick Hall-Sizemore

            “Effectively ban abortion”? I like it, but Republicans are denying that is what they want to do. Most say they support Youngkin’s 15-week proposal. About 98 percent of all abortions are performed before 15 weeks of pregnancy. That is hardly banning the procedure. In fact, hardly anyone would notice any effect if that legislation were passed.

          5. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            look at Republicans in other states… not 15 weeks..until voters talked to them.

          6. Teddy007 Avatar
            Teddy007

            It does not matter what any politician says, as shown by Trump, but what they do. If the Republicans hit the trifecta, the push by the base to effectively ban abortion will be irresistible.

          7. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            Oh? So he quoted Shakespeare?

            The Republicans winning both houses would be “a pox on both”.

        2. Nancy Naive Avatar
          Nancy Naive

          Forget the PAC, check his mad money account. His loans to his campaign can cover half dozen delegate races, and some.

          1. Dick Hall-Sizemore Avatar
            Dick Hall-Sizemore

            Are you suggesting that he is going to use all those contributions to “Spirit of Virginia” to somehow pay himself back?

          2. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            Oops. Youngkin for Gov, Inc has a zero balance. It appears he got his loan back. Lot of donations came in last summer..

            https://cfreports.elections.virginia.gov/Committee/Index/3f72510a-5026-4f1f-bcd6-2339f134b348

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