With Help From Democratic Insiders and a Few Republicans, Colvin Hauls in Cash.
'Democrat Jesse Colvin has gotten a big financial boost in his effort to oust Republican incumbent Rep. Andrew P. Harris in Maryland’s 1st District -- pulling in more than $883,000 in the third quarter of the year, with help from Washington, D.C., and Maryland Democratic insiders as well as a few Republican friends.
The latest campaign finance disclosure reports, filed late Monday at the Federal Election Commission (FEC), showed Colvin outraising Harris by more than 3-1 -- as the incumbent reported taking in just $254,000 for the period from July 1 to Sept. 30. Colvin’s latest numbers allowed him to pass Harris for the entire 2017-2018 election cycle: Over the past 21 months, he has raised nearly $1.575 million, $75,000 above the $1.5 million taken in by Harris.
Thanks to fundraising from prior election cycles, Harris -- first elected in 2010 -- still had a big lead in cash on hand as of Oct. 1, with close to $1.4 million in his campaign treasury. But Colvin was able to significantly narrow the gap, reporting a little more than $750,000 as of the end of the third quarter. That was up sharply from the $188,000 he had on hand three months earlier, when his campaign war chest had been drained in winning a six-way June 26 primary in the expansive district, which stretches across 12 counties from Baltimore’s northwestern suburbs to the southern edge of the Eastern Shore.
And Colvin -- whose campaign claimed that 84 percent of the contributions in his 882-page filing came from inside Maryland -- was clearly energized by his support at the grass-roots level, with the latest figures showing him outraising Harris by more a more than 3-2 margin ($1.5 million to $943,000) among individual contributors during the current election cycle.
“The press doesn’t know how to read this,” Colvin crowed in a blast email to supporters Tuesday, following release of his FEC filing. “The prognosticators are confused. I think we broke the national party's handicapping metrics.” . .
“Had Democrats not written the district off in the last redistricting round, they might have a shot. They sabotaged their own ability to win this seat in 2011 when they packed Republican voters into it,” David Wasserman, House editor of The Cook Political Report said in a recent interview -- alluding to the Democratic efforts in Annapolis to ensure that the state’s other seven seats went their way.
Forty-five percent of the 1st District's registered voters are Republicans, compared to 35 percent who are Democrats and 20 percent who are independents. . .
Another veteran of the Reagan-Bush era also shows up on Colvin’s latest FEC report: Richard Armitage, who held several posts in the Defense Department under Reagan before becoming deputy secretary of state under President George W. Bush. Armitage, a Vietnam War veteran, donated $1,200.
And a veteran of the war in the Balkans during the late 1990s -- retired General Wesley Clark, who oversaw that conflict as supreme allied commander of NATO -- is also a donor. Clark, who later made a brief bid for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, contributed $1,000.'>>>
https://www.marylandmatters.org/single-post/2018/10/16/With-Help-From-Democratic-Insiders-and-a-Few-Republicans-Colvin-Hauls-in-Cash
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Send Colvin a few $$$ if y'all can!!!