FlashReport friend John Feliz, a senior strategist with the Liuetenant Gubernatorial campaign of State Senator Tom McClintock put together some very interesting numbers that are worth sharing.

At the risk of telling you how this book ends before you read it — Tom McClintock is clearly demonstrating an ability to raise funds, and that his base of support is wide and grass-roots driven.  That said, please read this briefing, then applaud Tom for his accomplishments thus far, and then – most importantly – click here to get involved with his campaign!

Here is an excerpt from Capitol Weekly’s digest (by ace CW reporter Shane Goldmacher) today on the down-ticket campaigns for statewide office:

From Capitol Weekly:

Lieutenant Governor

The three-way race for the Democratic nomination is fast becoming a two-candidate contest. Sen. Liz Figueroa, D-Fremont, spent $100,000 more than she raised in the second half of 2005 and has just more than $500,000 cash on hand. That will likely not be enough to unseat current Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi ($850,000 cash on hand) or Sen. Jackie Speier ($2.2 million cash on hand), D-Hillsborough, both of whom are better know by voters, according to a November Field Poll.

The winner of the primary will face conservative Sen. Tom McClintock, who is running unopposed.

OK – here is  John’s analysis:

Tom out paced his Democratic opponents in the last reporting period in the number of donors and has run competitively in the total dollars raised. The following analysis is interesting:

For the entire LG campaign, Tom has received 23,596 donations.  During the past 6 months he got 10,659.  His average donation for the 6 months was $66.17.  Average for the campaign is $78.10.  Truly a man of the people.  For the entire campaign: 15,536 donations were under $50, 19,847 were under $75 and 20,026 were under $100.

What we have seen over the past six months is the confirmation that Tom McClintock has become a truly formidable fundraiser.  Tom now has around $200,000 (or over 22%) more money in the bank that his expected opponent, and incumbent constitutional officeholder John Garamendi.  Furthermore, Tom brought in almost twice as much over the past six months as Jackie Speier.

Tom’s preeminence lies not only in the total amount raised but also, and very starkly so, in how he has managed to broaden his donor base.  Tom’s number of contributions over the course of the entire campaign outnumbers that of Speier by 10:1 and that of Garamendi’s by a mind-blowing 20:1.  While Tom brought almost 24,000 contributions, Speier reported a little over 2,000 and Garamendi – a paltry thousand.  That translates into total contributions of under $100 for Tom totaling an astounding $182,000, while Garamendi and Speier’s don’t even rise to 1/10 of that number combined.

Below is a chart that John sent to me – we’ll see how it formats in a web-posting:

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