Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Sunday, September 10, 2006 11:37:04 PM
Today's GT announced that in the most recent reporting period, Ritter out raised Beuaprez almost 3:1 and called it a "
downward spiral."Until the Republican's figure out how to repeal or fix the campaign finance laws, this will happen over and over. Unions have the capability of organizing "small donor committees" that can dump $10,000 per committee into a campaign. The limit is meaningless because each union can have an unlimited number of commitees, and thus can contribute an unlimited amount of funds.
Further, by dumping all the money in at once, they can create a sunami effect and make it appear that the election is a foregone conclusion. I haven't seen the reports, but I'd bet that there are a large number of $10,000 donations in that $600,000 that Ritter raised. If so, the G-T fell for this stunt.
And that is all it is, a stunt.