Cash-strapped Bill McCollum asks court to let him keep public matching funds

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

Posted on Monday, 07.12.10
Cash-strapped Bill McCollum asks court to let him keep public matching funds

Outspent by Rick Scott, his independently wealthy GOP opponent, Bill McCollum asked a court to rebuff Scott's bid to deny him matching campaign funds from the state.
BY LEE LOGAN
Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau

TALLAHASSEE -- Bill McCollum's campaign for governor is one major TV advertising purchase away from going broke as it heads into the last six weeks before the Aug. 24 Republican primary, according to an affidavit filed Monday by McCollum's campaign manager.

After raising $4.7 million and fending off an avalanche of advertising from independent GOP candidate Rick Scott, McCollum's campaign to move from the state attorney general's office to the governor's mansion has just $800,000 in the bank.

That's about the cost of a week's worth of television in Florida's 10 media markets.

The campaign dropped that figure in a federal court filing Monday as the McCollum camp pleaded to intervene in a lawsuit brought by Scott, who wants the court to block his rivals from getting state campaign funds to match his own spending.





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Bill McCollum, left, campaigning with Rudy Giuliani.

[RockaFowler]

1. He has the worst ads

Keep the money Bill. It's not working for you!!

Go Alex Sink

[LawnKorn]

2. It is so much fun watching Republicans fight

Scott and McCollum can beat each other to a pulp, and the Democratic voters of Florida will not lift a finger to stop them.

[No Elephants]

3. what's an "independent GOP candidate?"

[Dogtown]

5. I think it means running against the machine,

that is, running without local GOP backing.



Someone more knowledgable can correct me if I'm wrong.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Bill is a scumbag and the people who donate know it.

There's two of a kind in that picture.

[HooptieWagon]

6. Yes, McCollum and Scott are both slimeballs.

Alex Sink would make a wonderful governor.