Christine O’Donnell filed her FEC report last night and raised an eye-popping $3.8M, mostly from out-of-state. The News Journal took a look at the report.
The Tea Party Express-backed candidate, who shocked the nation with her primary victory over GOP Rep. Mike Castle, raised nearly $3.8 million from across the country between Aug. 26 and Sept. 30 and spent $1.2 million, according to a 956-page fundraising report she filed late Friday afternoon with the Senate Public Records office
Very little of the money actually came from individuals. Of the individual donors, only 1.3% of them are from Delaware.
Her report showed that just 1.3 percent of her contributions from individuals — $47,361 out of $3.7 million — came from Delawareans. She also received about $52,000 from political action committees, including PACs run by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the National Rifle Association, the conservative advocacy group Citizens United and other conservative groups.
She has a lot more money to spend in the last few weeks, she’s outraised Chris Coons 3x although most of his money is coming from individual donors.
The New Castle County executive’s campaign provided summary pages showing he raised more than $1.3 million between Aug. 26 and Sept. 30 and spent just over $1 million.
Coons raised $979,734 from individuals and $296,873 from PACs. A spokesman did not respond when asked how much came from Delawareans.
I can see why she would be an appealing candidate for shady groups that want to buy our government. She’s not too smart, so she’ll do what she’s told. She’s always relied on the kindness of strangers, so she’s already proven that she’s not very ethical either. They probably should have used that money to give her better debate coaching, rather than the same people who coached Sarah Palin.
One commenter on the NJ site said “COD = Cash On Delivery”