Kreibich thinks he sucks
This article about Rep. Rob Kreibich's loss with nearly $100,000 in the bank is hilarious. It has this beauty of a quote:
"As an incumbent, if you can't hold your Assembly seat spending $50,000, you don't deserve to be in office," Kreibich said...So Kreibich thinks he sucks and clearly his district thinks he sucks too or they wouldn't have voted for someone else.
The article is good for a laugh since Kreibich is desperately trying to convince himself and others that he wouldn't do anything different. He even exaggerates the Dem voting average to make it look like there is no way he could win. His district averages about 53%, not the 55% he tries to sell in the article.
He says he is saving the money in his account for a future race and throughout the article makes it sound like he never intended to spend the money he raised for his assembly race on that election. I'm guessing a lot of donors might get a little upset at being duped about why they were writing a check to Kreibich's campaign.
Does Kreibich really believe that he couldn't have won that race if he had spent the rest of his funds? I doubt it. He lost by less than 200 votes. And really, what kind of a Democracy does he think we have if $100,000 can't by 200 votes?
posted by whatsleftwi @ 10:54 AM
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Oh for the love of god -
Your link to the article didn't work but I think it's safe to assume it contains the same info, or is perhaps, the Leader Telegram article.
I thought the premise of that article was amazingly stupid. First, it said that Kreibich was saving the money IN CASE OF A LAST MINUTE ATTACK BY A SOFT-MONEY GROUP.
This seems both reasonable and logical, given that astroturf groups spring up every which way and you cannot predict them. You cannot campaign with shadow groups and not expect candidates to begin to budget/strategize for their possible appearances. You can't have it both ways.
But the really stupid part? Is that you can't think Kreibich was "stupid" without a basic acceptance/belief that really , in America, no matter HOW HARD we protest otherwise - we really DO expect our elections to be bought, for the Big Money Guy to kick ass. Either party, the belief that it's all about the money is so deeply entrenched - and that is the only way this is "so funny", or "so stupid". Letting it to the people, not the cash - ha ha ha. What a gut-buster.
I don't like Kreibich's policies and decisions, but so he didn't trounce his opponent with cash, he didn't buy the election.
Ooh. Let's laugh and point.
For the record Jody, what I'm laughing about is Kreibich's attempt to spin that he wouldn't do anything differently with his election. That is just not believable.
Why did he raise all the money if he wasn't going to use it for his election? If he really believes an incumbent shouldn't be re-elected if s/he can't do it on $50,000, why did he raise over twice that amount?
Kreibich was arrogant and got caught. He can try to play the campaign finance victim all he wants, but most folks aren't buying it.
The Spice Boys shed a little light on why he may have not spent his stash.
The fact that their article came out before the Leader-Telegram piece, which didn't even mention Kreibich's attempt to buy media, just highlights what a dog turd of a newspaper the L-T is.
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