Who (Not What) is in Jillary’s Wallet?

When challengers run against incumbents, one of the things they scrutinize is where they are getting their money. They know that constituents can always get upset if they are accepting foreign (read: out of district or out of state) money.

What tickles me, is that in the case of Jill Long Thompson, she who wishes to actually challenge Governor Daniels in November, the majority of her second quarter numbers, 55.4% of her war chest isn’t coming from Indiana. In fact, it’s coming from Washington, D.C. of all places.  While over 75% of Governor Daniels’ second quarter numbers come from right here in the Hoosier state.  And what of the first quarter?  The State GOP put out this press release:

Unable to attract support from the people she hopes to represent, Democratic candidate for governor Jill Long Thompson is relying almost entirely on out of state special interest groups to fund her campaign. In the first quarter of 2008, more than 75 percent of her funding came from donors outside of Indiana.

With 70 percent coming from Washington D.C., alone, Indiana Republican Party Chairman Murray Clark said it is obvious who Jill Long Thompson would represent as governor.

“Jill Long Thompson should change her campaign name from ‘Hoosiers for Jill’ to ‘D.C. Special Interests for Jill,’ because Hoosier’s don’t appear to be supporting her campaign,” Clark said.

So who’s in Jillary’s wallet? Second quarter finance numbers won’t be available until July 15th, “…but according to her supplemental filings, she has received $805,000 from out-of-state sources in the second quarter of 2008. Washington D.C. based groups EMILY’S List and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have contributed $700,000 of that sum.”

So as a voter, you have to ask yourself, if ultra-liberal Washington, D.C. groups are backing JLT, as governor (excuse me, State Fire Baton Twirler), whose values and ideals would she be looking after? According to the numbers, it’s certainly not ours.  So far special interests have the upper hand.

And for good measure.

(More after the leap)