Campaign Finance: The Power of People vs. Billionaires

So yes, there has been a big article from Chris Tackett, which I missed Chris Tackett.

He went on a trip and things slowed down a little bit on the See It, Name It, Fight It stuff that was being posted, but he came back with a big push to let us all know what the 30-day campaign finance reports-

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So what we're looking at in the numbers is that Republicans, uh, running for the six Tarrant County offices are sitting on $1.87 million in cash per the 30-day report.

Democrats have $444,000.

That is a four-to-one gap.

Uh, but what we need to also look at is the individual donors.

Between July 1st and September 21st, 4th, 415 donors were funded to six Republicans on this county race.

More than 2,200 funded the five Democratic campaigns.

Uh, that's because we were waiting on Jared Williams's in this article, which also was able to be up- uploaded.

But to me, what's really exciting, it just shows you, yes, cash on hand-wise, you know, they're doing a great job of, of having more cash, which they usually do.

But a four to one, you know, again, I feel like if, if you're b- if you're at a one to five as a Democrat, you have a real shot at winning.

Like, I think that's a good ratio.

So a four to one, it's like, you know, like Taylor Emmett was 10 to one.

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So it's-

So it's doable.

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It is still disappointing, but I think the numbers of individual donors is the bigger story-

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in all of this.

Absolutely.