Short of Money, G.O.P. Enlists Rich Candidates

This is so, so sad. Who cares about the candidate, as long as they're rich.

Short of Money, G.O.P. Enlists Rich Candidates

By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
Published: November 26, 2007


WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 — Confronting an enormous fund-raising gap with Democrats, Republican Party officials are aggressively recruiting wealthy candidates who can spend large sums of their own money to finance their Congressional races, party officials say.

At this point, strategists for the National Republican Congressional Committee have enlisted wealthy candidates to run in at least a dozen competitive Congressional districts nationwide, particularly those where Democrats are finishing their first term and are thus considered most vulnerable. They say more are on the way.

These wealthy Republicans have each already invested $100,000 to $1 million of their own money to finance their campaigns, according to campaign finance disclosure reports and interviews with party strategists. Experts say that is a large amount for this early in the cycle.

In New York’s 20th Congressional District, in the Albany area, Alexander Treadwell, an independently wealthy former State Republican Party chairman, has invested more than $320,000 of his money in a race that Republicans predict will cost each candidate at least $3 million.

While Mr. Treadwell, the grandson of a founding executive of General Electric, plans to raise money from donors, he has privately told party officials that he is ready to invest more of his money to unseat Representative Kirsten Gillibrand, a freshman Democrat, Republicans close to him said.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/us/politics/26recruit.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=todayspaper&adxnnlx=1196086274-PFdEQOapGCtOc39yA9fW8A

because if it were dems doing this, the slant to the story would be how 'desperate' they are, and also infer that they were begging.

How do I know this? Well, when the neocons were at their zenith, there were numerous stories being written about how the democratic party was desperate and trying to avoid becoming irrelevant.

Now that the tables have turned, somewhat, the slant is that the repubs are being "aggressive", not desperate.

- And the desperation sets in.....

K&R!