Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Top Ten Races Within The Race... Why Rick Beat Kay... 8 of 10...

8. Jim Lee, Tom Hicks, and Gene Powell versus Jim Francis, Pat Oxford, and John Nau...

Kay came out of the gate with a lot more money than Rick, and it wasn't until the bitter end that Rick surpassed her... she was buoyed by a transfer of 7 or 8 million dollars accrued over the years from her federal account to her state account... she also was able to raise money for the first six months of 2009 while Rick was prohibited from raising money because he was a state office holder already... so Kay had plenty of money the entire time to compete with Rick... had she not made that transfer or had that big head start of time she probably would have run out of money and or been convinced to drop out...

Rick and his peeps did a "money cannon" that raised more than 1.3 million dollars in a single day just days before the election. They did a great job during that one week in June they were able to raise money... but one thing Rick's fundraising team probably could have improved on was getting more small individual donors... or if they did have lots of small donors they could have done a better job publicizing that...

Rick paid his fund raisers a lot more than Kay did... proving that incentives work... although he may have just had better peeps than she did... in reality Rick outraised Kay by a whole lot when looked at head to head...

WIN... Rick 4-3.

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