Fallon Sleaze Hurts Fundraising
April 15th, 2008 at 03:24pm Geraldine
While the top of Ed Fallon’s balance sheet shows a very solid fundraising quarter, the details hide a sad truth. Fallon’s ethics woes have hurt him badly among potential donors. Fallon’s credibility gap over issues related to I’M for Iowa has led to fewer and fewer donors trusting him. While Fallon claimed 2,082 total donors for the quarter, almost 80% of them wrote their checks before mid-February. In the last six weeks of the quarter, Fallon’s fundraising slowed to a trickle. The result is that Fallon has already spent nine out of every ten dollars that he has raised and, after counting for outstanding debts, he has less than $3000 available to spend on the last 90 days of his campaign. If Fallon’s fundraising continues to dry up, he won’t have enough money to meet his payroll, let alone pay himself through “the Fallon loophole“. Of course, if Fallon had been upfront about I’M for Iowa and its donors, none of this would have happened. But, like Richard Nixon, it seems it was not the crime that brought Ed Fallon down, it was the cover up.
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6 Comments Add your own
1. desmoinesdem | April 15th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
How many of my tax dollars did Boswell’s office use when he abused his franking privilege to send out campaign-style direct-mail pieces?
Only the last two mailers from Boswell were actually paid for by Boswell for Congress. The earlier ones this year were paid for out of the federal treasury. Talk about sleazy.
2. Gavin | April 16th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Give it a rest already.
3. Iowa Progress » 4th&hellip | April 16th, 2008 at 10:44 am
[…] of the attention paid to Iowa fundraising numbers in the first quarter of this year went to the 3rd District primary, it’s worth noting that there is a Democratic primary in the 4th District too. However, the […]
4. 3rdDistrictDem | April 16th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Fallon sleeze? Please. In the ‘06 campaign he self-imposed harsher limits than the law required. Self-imposed. Someone is raising dirty money (Oil, Coal, Walmart, Lockheed Martin) and it’s not Fallon.
5. desmoinesdem | April 16th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Hey, Geraldine! Come on over to Bleeding Heartland and tell us all why Boswell did the right thing in voting for the Military Commissions Act.
How come Boswell supporters can never seem to defend his actual voting record?
Maybe you all know that he can’t stand up to Bush on important issues and just does what he thinks is politically expedient?
6. Iowa Progress » Rep&hellip | May 25th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
[…] campaign has been very frugal (as opposed to other long shot campaigns like that of Ed Fallon) and still has over $4000 on hand. With this type of fundraising, it’s clear Hartsuch is a […]
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