As the primary run-off speeds to the finish line, Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln is blasting opponent Bill Halter for "letting other people fund his campaign." Hilarious if it weren't such a predictable example of upsidedownism.
As Think Progress points out today, Halter has received money from the AFL-CIO and others outside Arkansas. But in the 2009-2010 campaign season, that amounted to 5 percent of his total, with 93 percent coming from individuals. In other words, the funding emphasis is on people.
The Senator, on the other hand, got 38 percent of her campaign dough from PACS. Among them:
$10,000 from Chevron
$5000 from ExxonMobil
$5000 from Occidental Petroleum
$4000 from British Petroleum
$7000 from Anadarko
$6000 from Bayer
$5500 from Blue Cross Blue Shield
$5000 from Boeing
$5000 from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
$6000 from Comcast
$6500 from Goldman Sachs
$6500 from JP Morgan Chase
$7000 from Lockheed Martin
$8000 from Wal-Mart
Perhaps you'd like to join others at O2B and up Halter's percentage of individual contributors. Do it here.
And oh, look ... here's a great visual of who's bought Blanche.
Update: The Halter campaign is also looking for phone bank volunteers. --Susan
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Full Disclosure: I gave $200 to Bill Halter's campaign.