Paula Hawks’ FEC report is available on-line now, and it shows a few interesting things.
Out of that 63k she’s noting she raised, Hawks is in for $950. Tim Johnson’s South Dakota First Leadership PAC is in for 5k. Tom Daschle is in for $1000, and so is Herseth. Brendan Johnson is in for $500, Dale Larson of Brookings is in for $1000, SDDP Chair Ann Tornbers ig in for $700, and big spender Rick Weiland sent $250. There’s an exceedingly high proportion of unitemized contributions. Which is unusual. You also see itemized contributions from “Petty Cash” for $175, $708, and $125.
It looks to me as if she went to the Democrats’ well for start-up money, and fared worse than Matt Varilek did. The small group of Democrat loyalists dug deep, but there’s not a lot of breadth. And there’s no indication that she can continue to tap many of these same people indefinitely.
Anything you notice?
It looks like her campaign manager is the winner at $3500/month!
She did better than I thought she would and less than necessary to give the impression she has the depth and breadth of support to be viable.
Like all newbies to statewide races, I am also guessing she is surprised all the people who were going to come out of the woodwork is she ran are nowhere to be seen.