From Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
Jill Stein, the only presidential candidate other than Martin O’Malley who is actively working to qualify for primary season matching funds, has now met the legal requirement in 13 states. Candidates must raise at least $5,000 from each of 20 states. For the purpose of qualifying for primary season matching funds, only the first $250 from any single donor counts.
The Stein campaign is working on these eight states to finish the job: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Jill is off to a fairly impressive fundraising start. According to her November 30th FEC filing, she has already raised $217,350, including $40,000 in personal loans to her campaign.
That’s nearly a ten-fold increase over a similar period during the 2012 election cycle when she had only raised $21,952 by the end of 2011 and didn’t surpass the relatively modest $200,000-mark until August of that year, a few weeks after the Green Party’s national convention in Baltimore.
Unlike the LP’s Gary Johnson, who is still carrying a $1.4-million debt, Stein ended up with a small surplus after the 2012 campaign.
I think Jill and the Greens are going to make some real noise in the 2016 campaign, particularly if and when Bernie Sanders, as expected, fails to win the Democratic nomination.
It would be cool if Darryl Perry could raise a few million dollars worth of cryptocurrencies and precious metals, and run a campaign on that, but I just seriously doubt that it is going to happen.
It shows what lousy shape the LP is in that there is even a possibility of this happening.
One big area where the LP has an edge over the Greens is in ballot access.
The result tends to show that the Green Party is much better in operation in some senses than is the Libertarian Party. It will be of interest to see which of our glorious candidates have raised money and how much.
At a guess:
Kerbel has raised some money and has one or more maximum donors.
Petersen has raised at least some money.
Feldman has at least some donations in kind from himself.
Perry will not file with the FEC.
Libertarians:
Kerbel has raised at least some money.
Feldman has at least donations in kind.
Petersen has probably raised at least some money.
Perry is known to have raised at least some bitcoins and metal coins.
At the end of 2007, I had raised $74,782, including my own money.
J*hns*n just filed a “debt settlement plan” on his 2012 campaign, which includes giving most of his creditors ZERO and his campaign management copies of his mailing list. The debt settlement plan proves: Claims that Johnson 2012 only owed money to the campaign management company were bald-faced lies from a bald faced liar. The plan was filed on December 31,
We predict that the Republicanly-fiscally-prudent (spelled “wastrel spendthrift”) Johnson Presidential campaign will rise from the dead, rather like the Vampire Nostradamus.
So Stein has raised AT LEAST $65k, before the first primary or caucus and seven months before the Green Party’s national convention.
It’s less than five months until the 2016 Libertarian National Convention. Have any candidates for the LP’s presidential nomination raised that much? And if so, does a substantial amount of it remain unspent and available?
I’m kind of doubt that that’s the case.
And I’m remembering a comment Darcy Richardson made awhile back, predicting that Stein would clean the LP’s clock next November.