U.S. Rep. John Barrow, an Augusta Democrat, revealed today that he had $1.5 million in his campaign bank account as of Sept. 30, while Republican challenger Rick Allen had just $118,000.
Georgia's 12th Congressional District is the only competitive House race in the state and has seen a flood of outside money, but Barrow holds the sizable edge in candidate funding.
The Barrow campaign put out a press release ahead of its formal filing, stating that Barrow raised nearly $683,000 in the third quarter and had $1.5 million on hand. That would mean he spent about $1 million in the quarter, mostly on a steady drumbeat of television ads.
Allen's filing with the Federal Election Commission today shows he raised $328,000 in the third quarter of this year while lending himself another $175,000. The Augusta construction company owner has given himself more than $650,000 this election cycle. Allen spent $615,000 in the third quarter, leaving his campaign with $118,000 at the end of the month. He took in $57,000 from Political Action Committees.
The outside spending had been about even at around $1.5 million bashing each candidate, until the announcement from the American Future Fund that it would come in with a late $970,000 buy. This sparked some semi-hysterical emails from the Barrow campaign to gin up donors.
The final pre-election FEC filing deadline is today. Here's an email from Team Barrow this afternoon:
In a campaign like ours, if we don't stay competitive on TV – we lose. No sugar coating it. The fact that a Super PAC just entered this race for the last three weeks and national Republicans upped their investments means we have a hole in our budget we have to fill.
I really can't understate how important it is for us to fill this gap by midnight tonight. We're winning this race – don't let Rick Allen fool you – but if we let them beat us on T.V. that could change in a heartbeat.
Help us keep that from happening!
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