Great News

I promised you yesterday some big campaign news. Well, here it is. We just finished our fundraising report for 2007, and we not only broke all of the fundraising records for a Lieutenant Governor campaign, we shattered them. As best we can tell from state records, my campaign bank balance at the end of 2007 was triple that of any past candidate for Lieutenant Governor at the end of a pre-election year. Needless to say, that is great news.

What does this mean for the campaign? First of all, it means that I can spend more of my time this year talking to voters and less of my time raising money. Don’t get me wrong—there is still a lot more to raise, so you should keep checking your Caller ID. But it certainly makes things easier. More importantly, it means that I will have the ability to communicate my message about the welfare of Delaware’s children to voters. Running for a statewide office means that no matter how hard I work, I can never talk to each voter individually, so having the money to communicate with voters through the media means that voters will actually learn what I want to do if I get elected. That is huge.

Many of you who read this blog also contributed to my campaign, so to each of you a heartfelt thanks. To those of you who contributed in the last six weeks and are still waiting for your thank you note, please stop calling me an ungrateful wretch (that means you, mom)—the letters are going in the mail today. Now, with the election year upon us and the funds to at least start doing what I need to do, it is time to go out and tell the voters how I am going to help change this state. I hope you will join me.