First hint of Hawks fundraising emerging… Campaign claims 63k raised.

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From KSFY, the Hawks campaign is claiming they’ve raised about 1/4 of what the Noem campaign managed to bring in during the same period:

Democratic state Rep. Paula Hawks has raised about $63,400 since launching her campaign to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem.

Federal reports released by Hawks’ campaign Thursday show the representative from Hartford had about $45,600 on hand at the end of this fundraising quarter, which ran from July through September.

and…

Campaign manager Zach Nistler says the campaign is pleased and will build on the numbers.

Read it here.

We don’t have the filing in hand yet, so there’s still a lot of questions. Arguably, it’s better than Corinna Robinson managed during her campaign, but it’s still less than 2/3 of what Matt Varilek was able to raise against Noem in his first quarter during Noem’s first contest as an incumbent.

What do you think?

3 thoughts on “First hint of Hawks fundraising emerging… Campaign claims 63k raised.”

  1. It will be very interesting looking to see any substantial gains with the Hawks campaign in fundraising. Highly doubtful with the state Dem party seriously lacking statewide organization, deeply divided which will only get worse with them losing registered Dems monthly.

    The Hawks campaign not only faces a challenge from Noem but within her own party. The DFP roundtable with their usual crazies totally turn off potential voters and supporters with their anti-Catholic, anti-Religion, Hate this, Hate that, constant whining about Gerrymandering rather than doing the hard work of party building, conspiracy theories up the ying yang and of course if your not for supporting legalizing drugs your not wanted. Oh my!

    Will we see an exciting competitive race that with serious competition challenges us to be better? Sadly doubt that. It will be another landslide and Kristi Noem will not only win but will come out in again a stronger position.

  2. Also worth noting that Varilek announced in December so he only had one month to report on that initial FEC report. Varilek pulled in twice what Hawks did in half the time. Most people agree that Varilek ran a credible campaign and he still got trounced by almost 14 points. Noem has only gotten stronger since then and anyone who wants to seriously challenge her will need to do about 3x what Hawks raised.

    Dems still have time to find a better candidate, think they’ll go back to their thin bench and try someone else?

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