Thursday, June 30, 2011
How Much was Spent Per Vote? By Geniusofdespair
What is a vote worth? Julio Robaina spent $17 per vote and Carlos Gimenez spent $8.90. That doesn't include the millions spent in PAC's on the Mayoral Campaigns. I am all for them just giving us the money to vote instead of them spending money for annoying mailers and robo-calls. If they had we would all be almost $26 richer. It would help pay the 20% insurance increase I just got thanks to Rick Scott.
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Just in the spirit of fair analysis these are the numbers I found from the elections dept. They are a mirror of the votes casted for each candidate on Tuesday.
Julio Robainas money raised: $1,681.225 and his PAC Citizens First raised: $430,000
Total raised for Robaina: $2,111,225
Carlos Gimenez money raised $ 912,217 and his PAC Common Sense Now raised $1,202,866
Total raised for Gimenez $ 2,115,083
These are the real numbers Genius… no pun intended. There almost even in fundraising as they were on election day . BTW I’m no fan of either one. Just the facts.
Not true, Robaina had other PAC's working for him and least 3 I know of....you can never figure out how much money is in the PAC's as they are so hidden. And what about the Accountability Project working against Gimenez? Don't factor in the PAC's you just muddle the numbers.
Point well taken… but I think at the end of the day both candidates had plenty of money as I indicated before. Just don’t like when you conveniently omit some facts to make one person look better than the other.
Well if they both had plenty of money, they could up my ante.
The idea behind campaign accounts is the candidate has CONTROL on how the money is spent. Pac's are another story. The campaign account is the real nuts and bolts of the campaign. Pacs are paying for TV ads or flyers. In the campaign account, as well as the PACs, Robaina had the clear advantage. Stop nit picking. I compared apples to apples. You want to bring in oranges, lemons and limes and they don't compare.
Those Robaina supporters who wrote $10,000, $50,000 checks to various PAC's must be licking their wounds. What a loss. I guess they will watch Gimenez closely and wait for 2012. If Gimenez is too weak to take control of the County and if he is too weak to reduce pay and benefits to the unions then the Robaina people will crush him in 2012.
Robaina's not coming back. He's bleeding like a stuck pig. A guy like Robaina as to ride the tiger or end up inside it. I doubt the State Attorney, US Attorney, or the IRS will get him, but his taint as a loser will cost him about 20% of the vote he received in a subsequent election.
Hold on!!! Let's not forget the MIAMI HERALD and all the great press that Gimenez got. Let's not forget that bs poll that hack of a poll company Bendixon ( whatever). Incidently, all free, favoring Gimenez. That you cannot put a price on!!. Gimenez had all the advantage. Can't wait to see how fast the Miami Herald will trun on Gimenez, as they eventually will!
Not that your Gimenez won (at least for 18 months), will you ever call him out on failing to keep his campaign promises? Or are you going to give him a pass? Just curious...
I support Carlos and I am very happy he won...and I do not want to pick a fight...but Carlos was the CHAIRMAN of Common Sense Now so your quote "The idea behind campaign accounts is the candidate has CONTROL on how the money is spent." May be correct in general but NOT in this election. I just wanted you to know so that you can keep your eye out on how campaigns are funded in the 2012 election cycle.
Gimenez needs to reduce County head count, reduce pay and benefits and reduce taxes like he promised or Robaina (who only lost by 4,000 votes) or someone like him
will win in 2012.
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