Wow. In the 60th Assembly District GOP primary fund raising for the first six months of 2007, Sen Berdooer Curt Hagman crushed OCer Larry Dick (apologies for an earlier, inaccurate post -- I was looking at the wrong Hagman committee).
Candidate Total Raised Expenditures Cash-On-Hand
Curt Hagman $310,911.00 $18,599.99 $334,522.81
Larry Dick $188,561.08 $30,524.41 $166,596.37
Larry Dick is a Director of the Municipal Water District of Orange County and Curt Hagman is a Chino Hills Councilman. They are the only two announced candidates in AD60, which sprawls across Orange, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties.
Both candidates loaned their respective campaigns $100,000 -- that seems to be the magic number to loan your campaign -- and after factoring that out the January/June fund raising disparity is even wider: $210,911 to $88,561.
La Habra Heights Councilman Stan Carroll had been thinking about joining the race, but unless he can jump-start a campaign with a sizable personal loan -- and be willing to spend it -- he'll have a tough time catching Curt Hagman, let alone Larry Dick.
Larry Dick has clearly stumbled. His campaign and fundraising efforts seem unfocused and one has to wonder whether he really has the old "fire in the belly." That being said, if he can get his campaign on track he should be able to be competitive - but this will be a tough race and he may not have the team in place to pull it off.
Posted by: Been Around | August 01, 2007 at 12:54 PM
Jubal - the $100,000 laons is the magic number because that is the max a state candidate can loan to their campaign. :-)
Posted by: Flowerszzz | August 01, 2007 at 01:43 PM
That's right -- I'd forgotten. Anything over $100K is a donation.
Posted by: Jubal | August 01, 2007 at 02:24 PM
Stan Carroll is out. It was in a blog called the FlashReport.
Posted by: Mike Spence | August 01, 2007 at 04:40 PM
Can you psot the link, Mike?
Thanks!
Posted by: Jubal | August 01, 2007 at 05:01 PM
Curt has broad supports from S.B County to L.A County voters.....And Orange County voters will follow the current trend. I admire his hard campaign effort and his good Republican stance. We believe he is ready and willing to serve AD60 with good spirit. Win, Curt.
Posted by: James | August 01, 2007 at 09:54 PM
FlashReport's Stan Carroll out of 60th AD race
Posted by: OC Native | August 05, 2007 at 03:55 AM