Tuesday, October 16, 2007

In The Money

While Republicans in central Ohio continue to knock on doors looking for a candidate, any candidate to run for Ohio's 15th congressional district, Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy has been building up her funds for her run for the 15th.

Dispatch:
......In a report filed yesterday with the Federal Elections Commission, Kilroy, a Franklin County commissioner making her second bid for Congress, listed total third-quarter contributions of $342,423 and expenditures of $25,561. The report represented fundraising from July 1 to Sept. 30.

Combined with money she carried over from her second-quarter report, Kilroy has $383,000 on hand to fight for the seat being vacated at the end of next year by Republican Rep. Deborah Pryce of Upper Arlington, who is retiring. Pryce narrowly defeated Kilroy in 2006.....

---- While we wait for next year's election, we continue to watch our current member of Congress, Deborah Pryce, Republican. Pryce has given new meaning to the phrase, "I don't do Mondays." Pryce apparently is allergic to working on Mondays. According to the Washington Post, Pryce was NOT in attendance to vote on Monday in the House of Representatives. This latest absence means Pryce has missed 10.3% of the votes in Congress since January. Pryce has gone from part of the leadership in the House to someone who doesn't care enough to show up to represent her district. Nice going, Deborah.