Oh boy. Vermonters First has submitted its final pre-election campaign finance report, and it’s a doozy.
Lenore Broughton, who had previously underwritten VF to the tune of $100,000, has added another $548,000 to the kitty.
Yes, that’s five hundred forty-eight thousand dollars.
For a to-date total of $648,000.
Also, VF did manage to broaden its donor base. It got a total of three — count ’em, three — gifts from people not named Lenore Broughton. They add up to $900. So it’s still pretty much Miss Daisy Against The World.
On the expenditure side, VF reported total spending of $463,000 for this period and $561,000 overall. So if they’re going to maintain their pace through Election Day, Miss Daisy may well crack the million-dollar mark all by herself.
Which, needless to say, would be absolutely unprecedented in Vermont politics.
Can we dispense with the myth that Lenore Broughton is just a simple individual who wants to do her part as a citizen? In reality, she’s trying to stage a one-person leveraged buyout of Vermont politics.
(I’ll have more later on mid-October campaign finance reports.)
Vermonters First will likely spend more during this election than the Brock gubernatorial campaign and more than every gubernatorial campaign pre-2010.
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