(Cross posted from BoydaBloc)
On top of not evenbreaking the 25% mark (and barely rating better than Congresswoman Nancy Boyda) in a poll of Republican Party activists in a poll taken at the Republican Party caucus last Saturday, State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins filed the most depressing, most disappointing, and the most tear-jerkingly hilarious FEC finance report of anyone running for Congress in Kansas- including State Sen. Nick Jordan! (and that's saying something, folks...).
Our favorite CPA raised a sum that can only be describe as embarrassing- barely $90,000. What happened this quarter is beyond us- she's been able to hold her own against Congresswoman Boyda and Jim Ryun up to this point, but obviously something dramatic changed.
Perhaps she decided doing the job Kansans already elected her to was more important (but that's not likely, knowing Lynn).
Or maybe the money just dried up because it's clear she isn't qualified to do the job.
Or maybe she's the Fred Thompson of Kansas, and will lose because she's too lazy to do it right.
Regardless the reason, $90,000 raised is a shockingly small amount of money- particularly when you take into account her disbursements for the quarter show she spent $12,307.59 on a fundraising consultant.
What is it they did for you, Lynn? Doesn't it hurt your little CPA soul to hire someone to help you with money?
Her only other major expenditure was payroll for her campaign manager, Patrick Leopold, who took home a little over $12,000 in the quarter...for doing what, no one in the district knows.
It certainly does look like the wheels are coming off the bus over at the Jenkins Camp, with disasters ranging from a shockingly poor finance report to next to no enthusiasm for her at Kansas Days to getting trounced in straw polls on caucus day- pretty obvious she's got nothing to smile about.
All of that makes us wonder: When is Lynn Jenkins going to call it quits? When will our lightweight State Treasurer realize she's in over her head and withdraw?