| This is one of the bigger races in New York. Republican Sen. Joe Robach is defending his seat against Democrat and former state senator Rick Dollinger. However, Robach doesn't have incumbent-like money. For example, Sen. Jim Seward is facing off with Don Barber. Seward has over $490,000 cash on hand, which is a pretty strong figure. Other Senate incumbents have plenty of money. Sen. Tom Libous has over $752,000 in the bank and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has over $1.3 million cash on hand.
The same cannot be said of Joe Robach. In his filing, it shows us that Robach only raised $121,625.00 and now has $270,048.95 cash on hand. That figure is very small considering fellow Republican incumbents have double, triple or even six times that amount (like Skelos does).
Other Senate notable races and filings (more to come later):
- The aforementioned Libous, the new deputy majority leader, has $752,279.30 cash on hand and received $357,397.46 in contributions over the first of the year.
SD-44: Sen. Hugh Farley has $415,774.46 cash on hand and received $94,745.00 in contributions from January to July of this year. B.K. Keramati, one of Farley's possible Democratic opponents, raised $29,265.35 and has $27,993.48 cash on hand.
SD-51: Seward's filing shows that he raised $176,634.00 during the first half of 2008 and now has $490,559.27 cash on hand. No filing yet from Barber, but that should be one to watch for.
SD-61: The Democratic primary is heating up in SD-61. Michele Iannello and Joe Mesi have yet to submit their filings, while fellow Democrat Dan Ward has. Ward's filing shows that he has $7,525.33 cash on hand. Republican Mike Ranzenhofer has yet to file. These filings will also be ones to watch for.
More filings to come later today. |
