Mis-statements by the Casey Campaign

I attended a meeting this evening and several campaign representatives were present to speak on behalf of their candidates. A representative for Bob Casey spoke and left me shaking my head with numerous mis-statements and contradictions.

He stated that Rick Santorum currently has $24 million. That number amazed me since he hasn't raised that much this entire cycle, much less has that as cash on hand. His point was that Casey is at a severe disadvantage in funds and must marshall them conservatively. Actually Santorum has a bit over $9 million and Casey $5 M. That's nowhere near the 25-5 disproportion they're implying. Please don't insult my intelligence by lying to me folks. Also, Tricky Ricky is burning through money on tv ads so that 2-1 ratio is getting smaller. The rep also said the GOP incumbent has spent $3.5 million on ads where all the news organizations are reporting it as around $5 million.

What got me aside from the money lies was the statement Casey is running a campaign with media as its number one focus. Yes, the DC consultants always do that because they get 15% commissions on the ad buys. I already knew Casey wasn't running a field oriented, grassroots campaign. What got me was when he said they were only making 7 television ads. He said it was because they were expensive. He also said they had dvd's for distribution (but failed to bring any along) but these were very expensive so don't waste any.

OK, here we have a campaign that's being driven completely by media then he says they don't have the money for a media campaign. What????

First of all, a television commercial can be made for $5-7,000. Buy ad time on the cable systems, segment your market, and save millions of bucks. Ain't rocket science folks. And dvd's can be mass produced for pennies apiece.

I hate being bullshitted, especially when I know better.

There were some other mis-statements like the fact the Santorum campaign funded the Romanelli petitions. No, their contributors did. Big difference.

If this is representative of the campaign they're running expect to see Tricky Ricky in for another six years.

Update: At least one person in attendance did receive a copy of the dvd. Why in the world didn't they bring enough for each committee person? When I went to the table there weren't any there.