From San Diego mayoral candidate Nathan Fletcher…
A little over a month ago, I launched my campaign to be the next Mayor of San Diego. Surrounded by hundreds of friends and supporters, I pledged to bring a new approach and new generation of leadership to San Diego. The energy of the announcement continued throughout the first month of the campaign.
At the end of July we will file our official campaign finance reports and publicly release our totals, but many of you have asked and I wanted to share with my earliest financial supporters the good news.
Our internal campaign goal was to raise $100,000 in June.
We shattered this goal and in just 25 days in June, we raised well over $300,000.
While we have a broad base of support, it was great to see that three quarters of our contributions came from the San Diego area. Additionally, our total isn’t “padded” with money loaned, contributed personally (above $500 limit), or transferred from other political accounts.
This start gives us a great foundation to build upon, but we have a lot of work left to do. We are busy scheduling small fundraising events over the course of the next six months.
I wanted to ask if you would consider hosting one at your home or office.
If you would like to host an event please call Anne at 619-787-7187 or email anne@nathanfletcher.com today.
We are just getting started and I am excited about our campaign. Thank you for your amazing support in our first month!
We are off to a great start.
Semper Fi,
NathanPS. We still need your help! Please call Anne at 619-787-1787 for information on how you can host a small fundraising event at your home or office!
The twittersphere came alive with the news, some of it comical (just to be clear, to those intent on using a tweet as a WMD), after @barryjantz tweeted the above link…
@LorenaSGonzalez — @barryjantz @dillonliam Holy Crap. Think @sdcitybeat will start dating him again?
@drolland — @LorenaSGonzalez @barryjantz @dillonliam He could take us out to a lot of nice dinners with that kind of money.
@drolland — @LorenaSGonzalez @barryjantz @dillonliam … or buy a lot of big print campaign ads. :^)
@erica_holloway — @LorenaSGonzalez @barryjantz That’s 600 people maxing out! Wow.
@pecooper — @barryjantz If $100k “strong” and $200k “shining star”, what do you call well over $300k???? besides unheard of….
@barryjantz — @pecooper $300k is the rest of the EW&F lyric, paraphrased: “Shining star for you to see, what fundraising can truly be.”
@JobNelson — @pecooper @barryjantz and over 3 quarters from inside San Diego…alot of folks speculated most of his money from outside
@JobNelson — @erica_holloway @pecooper @barryjantz The clue should have been announcement of business leaders endorsements…not the usual suspects
Voice of San Diego’s Liam Dillon had a story posted quickly. Read it here.
What’s your reaction? Will Carl DeMaio or Bonnie Dumanis be in the ballpark?