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Sen. Murray Raises $280,000 at Golden Tennis Shoe Awards

2010 Election, Politics, That Washington   June 15, 2010 at 9:20 am Josh Feit

According to her campaign, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray raised $280,000 at her annual Golden Tennis Shoe Awards last Friday at Seattle Center where U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy’s widow Victoria Kennedy spoke. 1,100 people attended the event.

The most recent federal campaign finance reports (through March), have Sen. Murray with $5.9 million cash on hand.




  • http://spifflines.blogspot.com/ John Bailo

    Shouldn't it be Grandma In Tennis Shoes? The Tennis Shoe thing worked in 1992, when Murray was 42 and could play the “young mom” role — jogging the stroller around Greenlake, but she's 60 now and her kids are grown up. Today's Moms drive SUVs and ferry kids to soccer practice and they wear Crocs and Vans to “keep up with the youth”.

  • Kass Andrea

    And apparently Patty Murray did not speak any message; none is reported.

    Meanwhile Rossie has erased ten out of a 17 point deficit in just five weeks as he launched. Not bad. Patty seems to be following the Hillary Clinton strategy of saying she's ….the insider incumbent, look at me, I can raise a lot of money, I know Victoria Kennedy!

    As we see massive cutbacks in state and local and unease over unemployment and then a presidential bp oil spill speech for which the huffington post headline is this:

    JUNK SHOT
    Obama's National Address Panned: Short On Details, Failed To 'Go Big'

    you have to ask yourself, what's the point of her raising money if she doesn't have any ANSWER or any message in response to the sharp, repeated, GOP message (gummint too big)? Is her plan to avoid the issue?

    There were only thirteen percent undecided in that poll and sh'es below fifty percent. Money doesn't do you so much good if the voters already know you and you don't got nuttin' to say to them…..

  • Cass Sandra

    and the outpouring of support from the Murray base fans is overwhelming…..