Note: Noon update added below.
Time keeps on slippin’, as a wise man once sang. And time is rapidly running out on Randy Brock’s fundraising “money bomb.” Earlier this week, he set a deadline of today (Friday July 13) at 5 p.m. to raise $40,000 for his gubernatorial campaign.
The total has been slowly creeping upward. As I write this, it stands at about $25,000. That’s 15K to go with less than 11 hours left. Which sounds like bad news, but I suspect that things will turn out just fine for ol’ Randy.
See, I checked the “money bomb” last night at about 10:15 p.m., and it was in the upper teens. Which means that Brock somehow managed to raise roughly $8,000 in the overnight hours between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Wow, he’s like Jack Bauer, working around the clock to defeat his sworn enemy.
Well, either that, or the Brock campaign is doctoring the totals to make it seem like the Brockmentum is growing. Like, perhaps they’re gradually adding in the proceeds from this week’s LePageFest which, at the prices they were charging, almost certainly pulled in far more than 40K.
I have absolutely no proof that the Brock campaign is cheating. But it’s very strange that they managed to pull in so much money when the Good People of Vermont were all asleep.
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Update 12:15 p.m.: Yeah, he’s gonna make it. He’s gone from 25K at 6 a.m. to about 32K at noon. They’re stretching it out just about right: getting close enough to make it, but not so close that there’s no suspense — and not so far away that everybody gives up.
So they’ll make the goal and declare victory, having a moment in the news cycle all to themselves. And then Monday afternoon the fundraising reports are released, and we’ll find out exactly how well Randy Brock is really doing.
what’s louder and will leave a more lasting impression in the Brock campaign, the “money bomb” stunt or the Gov.Paige “gestapo media bomb”?
Rented bear costumes,money bombs and now Governor Paige’s improv stand-up comedy routine these guys are great!
What will they think of next?
And how about that health care plan he was getting together with Gov. Paige’s brain trust?
Brock is going to protect us from ourselves (titanicare) and from overtime pay. Everything is shummy’s fault, except the overtime thing, which happened on JDs watch too, and then mix in a hurricane.
So I would expect that the numbers are all on the up and up. But we can’t trust an FEC or IRS filing now, what with gubmit being all up in our business and what not knocking in doors in the middle of the night and checking if we have insurance and then putting us in front of the death panel.
This next election is going to be Broktastic. With a chance of Mittens thrown in. A dog on the roof. A bear in the woods. Woof woof. And the Gestapo at the door! When Lepage comes a knocking your papers better be rockin.