How’s that #momentum thing working out for Gretchen Driskell?
Remember when Gretchen Driskell was bragging on Twitter about how much #momentum her campaign had going for it? Turns out she may have been exaggerating just a tad. (And by “just a tad” we mean that her numbers are so pitiful that she had to loan her campaign $60,000 just to save face.) You can check it out for yourself by consulting line 13(b) here.
When you subtract the $60,000 Driskell loaned herself, she only raised $146,190.12 this quarter. When you include the loan, she still has a not-so-impressive cash on hand figure. (Conversely, Tim Walberg raised $450,745.98 this quarter and has $792,124.12 cash on hand.) So while Driskell’s campaign is certainly stumbling out of the gate despite all of that silly Twitter talk about #momentum, at least she’s putting that 25% pay raise she gave herself as Saline Mayor to good use.