Heidi Heitkamp Posts $500,000 Fundraising Total For 2011

Rob Port • January 27, 2012

Upon entering the US Senate race, and before she could even begin to get over obstacles to her campaign like her vocal support for the unpopular Barack Obama and unpopular policies like Obamacare, Heidi Heitkamp had to prove she was a viable candidate. There is an entire generation of North Dakota voters who don’t remember the last time Heitkamp won an election, and despite her current flirtations with Republicanism, she’s moved far to the left since the last time she held statewide office.

To that end, Democrats manufactured a couple of polls from Democrat pollsters claiming that she was competitive with Republican Rick Berg (the likely nominee for the NDGOP, and went on a media blitz in an attempt to prove to national liberal interests that she can win in North Dakota. That campaign seems to have worked to a degree, as Heitkamp put up a decent fundraising total in 2011:

WASHINGTON — The campaign of North Dakota Democrat Heidi Heitkamp’s said Friday she raised just under $500,000 for her U.S. Senate bid in the final quarter of 2011.

Heitkamp’s campaign released her fundraising numbers to The Associated Press on Friday. The former North Dakota attorney general and one-time gubernatorial candidate is running to replace Sen. Kent Conrad, also a Democrat, who is retiring at the end of his term. GOP Rep. Rick Berg is also running for the seat.

Heitkamp campaign spokeswoman Gail Hand said Heitkamp was pleased with the wide spectrum of people who gave to her campaign.

Hand also is quoted in the article as saying, “The breadth of this support demonstrates that North Dakotans want leaders who will set party interests aside and put North Dakota and our country first,” but I’m guessing there isn’t a lot of this money that actually came from North Dakotans. Heitkamp needed to make a good showing with this fundraising report, and there’s no way she was going to do that based on the depleted fundraising networks of North Dakota Democrats alone.

It will be interesting to see what Heitkamp’s campaign fundraising report shows in terms of just where this money came from.

Tags: election 2012, Heidi Heitkamp, North Dakota News, Rick Berg

Dakotacyr

Once again you lie about “manufactured polls.” No matter how often you say it, it still won’t be true. Ask a republican pollster about Hart polling and they will tell you it is a legitimate polling firm.

And I ‘m sure you will be posting where Berg is getting his money and where he is having his fundraisers. I’ll be watching…..ha!

http://sayanythingblog.com Rob

I posted where Berg’s money came from after the last report.

And Hart was the same polling outfit that told us, right before the 2010 election, that Earl Pomeroy was going to win.

Nobody is, or should be, taking Democrat-paid-for polls by Democrat pollsters seriously.

Dakotacyr

You know better than that, a poll is a snapshot in time. Really, Rob I know this is your full time gig now oh never mind, accuracy and the truth have never been your strong points.

Cherz1967

. . . and reality has never been yours.

Anonymous

So the news release goes out, and the full FEC filing isn’t available yet? That’s spin, no matter who does it.

http://sayanythingblog.com Rob

Yeah, I think that’s true. In the House race, Kevin Cramer and Shane Goettle each had fairly impressive numbers, and the put out a press release at the same time they posted their FEC reports.

Kalk and Grande, who had less impressive numbers, put out press releases with no report.

Camsaure

I wonder if Grande probably raised more in state money then Hidey did.

Dakotacyr

Probably not.

Rick Olson

It will be very interesting to find out where Heidi’s money came from and who the donors are.

Anonymous

I’ll guess they’re not from North Dakota(this includes Kent Comrad).

banjo kid

When I view her picture a thought comes to mind “misery”
Fendell

Dakotacyr is kneejerking again. He really should have that looked at.
Anonymous

Why do foreign owned credit card donations under 50.00 each come to mind…….untraceable

Every Dem’cat will copy what Obama Did in 2008 for fundraising…………..

There isnt enough icbm missle technology to sell to the Chi Comes every election as the Clinton’ista’s did in the 90′s, Obama admin has allowed the present day Chi Coms to obtain it already anyway

Anonymous

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Wesbutte

The democrat party no longer exemplifies American values. I can no longer, in good conscience vote for any member of the democrat party. Ever since they put that communist in the white house. They act conservative until they get elected, and then they tote the party line———lock step to what the communist in chief wants No sirree Bob.
ec99

Seems the Herald is giving a daily progress report, complete with anachronistic photo, of Heidi’s campaign. Don’t know why she needs her own web page.

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