Follow The Money: Guv Gets Big Handout From RGA
We must be inching closer to November: The big gubernatorial money is starting to roll in — and cause some political sniping.
Last week, the Daniels camp said challenger Jill Long Thompson is a big sellout for taking large chunks of money from Washington-based interest groups. Specifically, they charged that Thompson’s campaign has been almost entirely funded by contributions from the Service Employees International Union and EMILY’s List, a group that donates to female candidates who support abortion rights.
I’ve always maintained that real people, who maaaaaaaybe think about politics two days a year, don’t care where the money comes from. But the Republicans made it an issue, so the chattering class chattered about it.
Fast forward to this week, and we find out that Daniels just received a huge cash dump — almost three-quarters of a million dollars — from the Republican Governors Association, a Washington-based group that collects cash and distributes it to GOP gubernatorial challengers and incumbents.
Huh. Well, that seems a little ironicalistic, doesn’t it?
Not only does Daniels have a little of the ol’ special interest egg on his face, but he also looks a bit more vulnerable, like someone who needs a large influx of money to get a leg up in this race as the incumbent.
At the end of the day, Joe Hoosier doesn’t care where the cash came from. He’ll see the ads on television and get the direct mail delivered to his doorstep. If he lives in a targeted part of the state, he might even get a knock on the door from a volunteer or two. But he’ll probably never know who footed the bill, and he probably wouldn’t care if he did.


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