Anthony Weiner is pressing on with his bid to become New York’s mayor, but donations to his election campaign slowed dramatically in the days after his scandal.
Campaign finance reports released Friday show that in the 13 days after Weiner acknowledged his conduct on July 23, his political committee raised $24,013.
In the 13 days before his admission, the campaign had taken in $422,682. That’s an average of around $32,500 per day.
Still, Weiner remains one of the best-financed candidates. He disclosed a balance of $6.1 million, compared to $9.3 million for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, just over $4 million for Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and $3.4 million for former comptroller William Thompson.
(AP)
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5 Responses
Money isn’t everything!
Duh
Goodbye TONY, goodbye.
Reply to Ahavas Yisrael:
I disagree with you. Money is everything. Money can buy you:
1. Clothing
2. A house
3. Medicine
4. Healthcare
Etc.
Money can’t buy a person happiness only greed.
No. 1: Much as I agree with the simple truth of your comment, I fail to see what it has to do with anything in this article. Money is a good measure of a political candidate’s strength in a campaign. It shows how strongly he/she can campaign and measures how donors assess the probability of a candidate’s chances of winning.