A release from the campaign of 1st District Democratic House hopeful Darcy Burner boasted that 8,100 people have donated to her campaign, bringing $178,000 to the Burner coffers in the quarter just completed.
In response to a question, Burner aide Kenneth Quinnell e-mailed one piece of additional information: “Out of 8,100 total donors, 3,100 are in-state.”
Darcy Burner
Burner was championed by national liberal “Netroots” activists in 2006 and 2008 when she challenged Republican Rep. Dave Rei
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A release from the campaign of 1st District Democratic House hopeful Darcy Burner boasted that 8,100 people have donated to her campaign, bringing $178,000 to the Burner coffers in the quarter just completed.
In response to a question, Burner aide Kenneth Quinnell e-mailed one piece of additional information: “Out of 8,100 total donors, 3,100 are in-state.”
Darcy Burner
Burner was championed by national liberal “Netroots” activists in 2006 and 2008 when she challenged Republican Rep. Dave Reichert in the old 8th District. An appeal to help Burner in 2008 after her house burned down yielded more than $130,000.
Burner is now one of five Democrats running in the 1st District, which stretches from the U.S.-Canadian border south to technology centers of Kirkland and Redmond, and south into the Snoqualmie Valley.
But she’s still netting out-of-state support. Burner has been championed by the Berkeley, Calif.-based daily.kos.com web site, the nation’s most popular liberal web site. It has featured her on its “Red-to-Blue” list of candidates.
Burner was featured up there with Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren at the annual, national Netroots Nation conference in early June. Despite two losing House races, she moderated a panel on using new technologies to win elections.
Other Democrats have been more at-home. Ex-state finance director Suzan DelBene has been boosted by unions and Gov. Chris Gregoire. State Sen. Steve Hobbs has drawn donations from Olympia lobbyists. Ex-State Rep. Laura Ruderman is a professional fundraiser by trade.
Supporters of Ruderman have also used the banner of a mysterious group called Progress for Washington for an “independent expenditure” of more than $63,000 on mailers attacking DelBene.
Burner is getting one more benefit of having a high profile on the national liberal stage.
She is appearing at 4:45 today on The Young Turks with Cenk Uyger on Current TV, the liberal cable channel co-founded by ex-Vice President Al Gore and Joel Hyatt. It’s the channel that recently fired Keith Olbermann.