Posted on 10/28/2004 6:00:43 PM PDT by ServesURight
National GOP makes last-minute $600,000 pledge to Michels
JR ROSS
Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. - National Republicans pledged Thursday to cover $600,000 in expenses for Tim Michels in his bid to unseat Sen. Russ Feingold, just two weeks after they backed off plans to spend twice that much on TV ads for his campaign.
Michels trumpeted the announcement as a sign that the National Republican Senatorial Committee believed his race with Feingold had tightened and was winnable.
Feingold spokesman John Kraus downplayed the development, saying infusing new money into the race would have little impact with just five days to the election and the airwaves dominated by the presidential race.
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FR is kinda screwed up tonight. What are the polls showing on this race?
Right on!
Should have happened sooner.
This guy is very impressive, I watched the debate on c- span.
Sure this is nice, but where is the $5 million in money from Michels fortune to go into this race?
I think the unspoken word was that when Michels was campaigning in the primary, he would spend much more of his own money than the other two challengers. Then he wins and his blitz of adds goes silent for weeks.
C'mon Tim, Herb Kohl regularly spends $6 million a race to buy his seat....ante it up. Otherwise we should have had Welch or Darrow run.
unfortunately, he's run a bad campaign commercial wise.
He tried to outliberal a liberal on re-importing candian drugs and lost.
He has hammered feingold on taxes, but hasn't done enough to link feingold's opposition to the patriot act and his campaign finance law as hypocritical positions.
He should have been hammering on taxes & security from day one and never let up. Instead he ran soft and fluffy ads that are just plain annoying.
Michels screwed this up. It is really surprising that the GOP will spend the money on his nonexistent campaign.
Wisconsin will end up with Feingold and the new Maxine Waters, Gwen Moore. Moore is playing the quiet moderate when playing to general audiences, but when she spoke to a democrat-only audience on Wednesday, she unleashed one of the most vile, vitriolic attacks I have ever heard in Wisconsin politics. ...and it wasn't even aimed at her opponent, it was aimed at Bruce Schuknecht, a GOP state assembly candidate.
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