Margo's Math
It was really hard to pick a winner in the debate at Coronado between the candidates for HD 78. But there was one interesting exchange over campaign finance that I thought was pretty interesting.
Here is video of part of the exchange:
Interstingly Dee Margo says that in the 2008 campaign he raised $582,000 and that his opponent raised $629,000. Moody immediately took issue with Margo's numbers.
So I checked out the reports and here is what I was able to tabulate in terms of campaign funds being raised by each of the candidates for the 2008 general election:
Dee Margo - $684,108.71 which is actually $102,108.71 more than what he told the audience at Coronado High School.
Joe Moody - 635,497.34 which is actually $6,497.34 more than what Margo told the audience at Coronado High School.
By my calculations, Margo out-raised Moody by $48,611.37.
The discrepency may be "in-kind" contributions, which have a quirky way of being reported, but in either case, I can't figure out how Margo arrived at his figure. In fact if you remove in-kind contributions, Margo's spending margin in the last election over Joe Moody would have been even larger.
Margo pointed out that most of his money came from in town during the last election and also mentioned a 6 figure contribution ($100,000)in this election. I wonder if most of his money is still coming from in town because that 6 figure donation appears to be from a state organization.
Here is video of part of the exchange:
Interstingly Dee Margo says that in the 2008 campaign he raised $582,000 and that his opponent raised $629,000. Moody immediately took issue with Margo's numbers.
So I checked out the reports and here is what I was able to tabulate in terms of campaign funds being raised by each of the candidates for the 2008 general election:
Dee Margo - $684,108.71 which is actually $102,108.71 more than what he told the audience at Coronado High School.
Joe Moody - 635,497.34 which is actually $6,497.34 more than what Margo told the audience at Coronado High School.
By my calculations, Margo out-raised Moody by $48,611.37.
The discrepency may be "in-kind" contributions, which have a quirky way of being reported, but in either case, I can't figure out how Margo arrived at his figure. In fact if you remove in-kind contributions, Margo's spending margin in the last election over Joe Moody would have been even larger.
Margo pointed out that most of his money came from in town during the last election and also mentioned a 6 figure contribution ($100,000)in this election. I wonder if most of his money is still coming from in town because that 6 figure donation appears to be from a state organization.
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