No Tea-Publican love for Sen. ‘Don’t make me angry’ Frank Antenori

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

FEC finance reports were due last week. Every candidate in the CD 8 Special Election filed their reports but one — Sen. "Don't make me angry" Frank Antenori. Isn't his campaign slogan "results for a change"?

The Arizona Daily Star this morning reported that ol' Frank was full of lame excuses for not getting his financial report filed in a timely manner. Antenori campaign finance report is overdue, four days past FEC deadline:

Antenori's spokesman, Brett Mecum, said Thursday that the campaign intended to file by that night's deadline. When the report was still AWOL Monday morning, Mecum said they had been trying to upload it to the FEC website since Thursday night, but it wasn't working.

"We've attempted to file since Thursday," Mecum said. "We're ahead of the deadline."

Because of the glitch, Mecum said Monday morning that he would email the report to the press within an hour, but as of Monday night it still hadn't arrived, and campaign representatives could not be reached.

If Frank was the only one who couldn't figure out how to file online, this speaks to his lack of competence. I mean, geezuz, even Jesse Kelly could figure it out. And I could teach a monkey with a typewriter how to do a press release.

Well, Frank must have called in some help this morning because he has finally released his finance report, and what it shows is that there is no Tea-Publican love for Sen. "Don't make me angry" Frank Antenori — this is truly sad and pathetic. Antenori raises $37K in election bid, report shows:

Republican Congressional candidate Frank Antenori raised just $37,000 through March — at least $96,000 less than the other four GOP contenders.

And he had spent all of that money and more. The final, amended report Antenori filed sometime after midnight shows he was $2,924 in the red.

Antenori was the last of the five candidates to file his campaign finance report to the Federal Election Commission. The deadline was Thursday at midnight.

Ron Barber, who is running unopposed in the Democratic primary, raised more than double any of the Republicans, and 14 times more than Antenori.

Cash totals reported to the FEC, reflecting money raised and spent through March:

• Barber – $549,132 raised, with $463,704 cash on hand.

• Sitton – $260,550 raised, with $132,253 cash on hand.

• Jesse Kelly – $210,348 raised, with $49,375 cash on hand. But $30,000 of that was off-limits until the special general election because it was donated for the general special election.

• McSally – $133,097 raised, with $44,216 cash on hand.

• Antenori – $36,689 raised, with -$2,923 cash on hand.