{"id":651949,"date":"2010-02-02T17:10:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75569"},"modified":"2010-02-02T17:10:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:10:11","slug":"tea-partier-outraises-griffith-over-period-of-party-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/651949","title":{"rendered":"Tea Partier Outraises Griffith Over Period of Party Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama Congressman Parker Griffith&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/71799\/conservatives-not-ready-to-embrace-party-switcher\">Dec. 22 switch<\/a> from the Democratic Party to the GOP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2242663\/\">hasn&#8217;t played out terribly well<\/a> so far. And here&#8217;s another piece of bad news for him: During a period of time that included Griffith&#8217;s surprise switch, Griffith&#8217;s primary challenger managed to outraise the incumbent. Tea Party Republican Les Phillip raised $228,534 from October to December 2009, while Griffith raised just $172,004, according to the Federal Election Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Griffith also shelled out $19,550 in refunds last quarter, most of which went to Democratic supporters who wanted their money back after Griffith joined the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>So, are these numbers a sign of fundraising struggles to come for Griffith or future GOP strength for Phillip? <span id=\"more-75569\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well, before Phillip supporters get too excited, check out Griffith&#8217;s overall totals: $1,074,727 raised and $714,835 on hand. Phillip reported $364,138 raised and $66,108 on hand. And Phillip&#8217;s total raised includes a personal loan in the amount of $50,341.<\/p>\n<p>One expense Griffith will definitely be saving: those National Democratic Club membership dues he&#8217;s been reporting to the FEC.<\/p>\n<p><em>h\/t TWI reader Steve<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama Congressman Parker Griffith&#8217;s Dec. 22 switch from the Democratic Party to the GOP hasn&#8217;t played out terribly well so far. And here&#8217;s another piece of bad news for him: During a period of time that included Griffith&#8217;s surprise switch, Griffith&#8217;s primary challenger managed to outraise the incumbent. Tea Party Republican Les Phillip raised $228,534 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2JBj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}