Fundraising by Primaried House Republicans

With the campaign finance reports due last week, it’s time to see how well the primaried House Republicans did during the six months between July 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013. Overall, they did quite well. The table provides the details:

July 2013-December 2013
District	Incumbent	Raised	Loans	Expenditures	COH
1	George Lavender	$104,001	$0	$21,495	$100,373
4	Lance Gooden	$104,773	$0	$96,757	$77,139
6	Matt Schaeffer	$157,735	$0	$178,793	$57,326
8	Byron Cook	$115,331	$0	$47,732	$640,503
11	Travis Clardy	$39,029	$0	$24,951	$51,942
12	Kyle Kacal	$84,895	$0	$32,203	$57,169
18	John Otto	$118,972	$0	$45,741	$531,510
55	Ralph Sheffield	$92,651	$0	$33,952	$137,340
59	J.D. Sheffield	$130,691	$4,500	$30,031	$105,999
60	Jim Keffer	$128,402	$0	$196,830	$318,472
64	Myra Crownover	$90,667	$0	$47,734	$221,456
71	Susan King	$96,705	$0	$13,752	$507,913
72	Drew Darby	$190,756	$0	$87,510	$523,033
83	Charles Perry	$84,796	$0	$10,704	$115,475
92	Jonathan Strickland	$188,577	$0	$101,780	$219,459
94	Diane Patrick	$94,219	$0	$53,884	$87,029
102	Stefani Carter	$288,186	$0	$140,240	$178,579
105	Linda Harper Brown	$137,000	$0	$108,323	$55,033
112	Angie Chen Button	$181,620	$0	$85,897	$399,844
115	Bennett Ratliff	$168,295	$50,000	$48,748	$182,310
134	Sarah Davis	$171,990	$0	$70,369	$145,562
150	Debbie Riddle	$23,200	$0	$15,327	$61,809
	AVERAGE	$126,931			$217,058

The average money raised by the twenty-two Republican incumbents was $126,931. Stefani Carter, who flirted with running for Railroad Commissioner before deciding to withdraw, raised the most money, and Debbie Riddle raised the least money. More importantly, the average cash-on-hand for the twenty-two Republicans was $217, 058, more than enough to adequately compete in the primary election on March 4, 2014. Four incumbents had more than one-half million dollars available (Byron Cook, John Otto, Susan King, and Drew Darby). Two incumbents had more than one-quarter million dollars available (Jim Keffer, and Angie Chen Button).

Few candidates spent much of the campaign treasure chests during the period. Jim Keffer led the group with expenditures of $196, 830. Only four other incumbents spent more than $100,000 (Matt Schaeffer, Stefani Carter, Linda Harper Brown, and Jonathan Strickland).

Only one incumbent, Bennett Ratliff, took on a significant loan during the period. Ratliff loaned his campaign $50,000. However, significant outstanding loans are held by a few of the incumbents. For example, Jonathan Strickland has $125,000 in outstanding loans.

In the next post, we'll look at how well the fundraising went for challengers to the incumbents.