Editor's note: The JKUSA blog is launching a new feature: "Bullet points." Every day we will ask influential politicos to send us their top three bullet points that are driving the day's conversation in and outside Washington.
RedState.Com Editor Erick-Woods Erickson:
- SEIU purple people beaters show up at a private citizen's house to intimidate and bully him all because he is a bank executive.
- Dino Rossi jumps into the Washington Senate race, taking Marco Rubio's consultant with him.
- 63% favor out and out repeal of Obamacare. Will voters repeal the Democrats in November? Probably so.
The Dewey Square Group Principal Maria T. Cardona:
- Hawaii notwithstanding, Republicans have completely overblown their momentum going into the 2010 elections, as evidenced by the results of PA 12.
- AZ law SB 1070 will be this generation’s equivalent of Prop 187 and will deal the AZ Republican party the same political blow that was dealt to the CA Republican Party back in the 90’s – I see Blue for a very long time.
- Texas text books? Rand Paul? Really?
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Washington (CNN) - An internal Republican National Committee document obtained by CNN paints a damning picture of the committee's financial standing compared to the past five election cycles.
The document, pulled together during a recent review sparked by concerns over RNC spending practices, said the committee had $12.5 million in cash on hand at the end of April.
Read the RNC document here [pdf]
By comparison, the average cash on hand at the end of April from 2002-2009 was $40.4 million. And that average includes the odd numbered years when there are fewer election contests.
Looking only at even-numbered years, this year's $12.5 million end of April COH is less than one-third the amount the RNC had on hand on April 30 for the 2002 ($47 million) and the 2006 ($44.6 million) midterms.
To be fair, there was a Republican president in those years, and the GOP controlled Congress, so fund-raising was less of a challenge. Still, the giant gap in the RNC's financial standing compared to past cycles is a source of considerable grumbling among party leaders and activists who worry the GOP is not fully prepared to take advantage of a campaign year in which most of the fundamentals suggest huge Republican openings.
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