Left In Lowell

As a follow-up to Lynne’s post on the release of the Donoghue and Dogherty donors list, I decided to review the names, or more precisely the city or town of the donors. These are my unofficial statistics. I say unofficial, because I printed the list and counted the names and towns; and no one reviewed my work. But if you have any questions on the validity of my findings, you can always check the candidates’ website.

Here are the numbers:

Donoghue: Total = 456; District = 264; Lowell = 213
Dogherty: Total = 418; District = 113; Lowell = 83

I do not have any problem with people raising money outside of the district. On many occasions I have donated to candidates that run outside of my district and even outside of Massachusetts; you may be a relative, a friend or colleague. Why not help them?

Both candidates had donations from the “usual suspects.” You know the business owners who give to everyone.

And if you are into statistics, 58% of Eileen’s donations are in-district while Chris‘ are 27%. How does this translate into votes? I do believe that these figures as well as lawn signs, bumper stickers, endorsements and volunteers do contribute to a successful campaign. To what degree? No one really knows.

By the way, Eileen will have one more financial contributor today, me. I have to go by the campaign headquarters to pick up something and I will drop off my check.


For those of you who have not been following this race on LiL, both Lynne and I are ardent supporters of Eileen’s campaign and we publicly endorsed her candidacy on this blog on June 1st.