The campaign of New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen announced Monday that she raised $2.8 million between April and June, which represents a second-quarter fundraising record, and was $800,000 more than her likely Republican rival Scott Brown brought in during the same period, according to WMUR TV.
Brown has four other rivals in the race for the Republican nomination, which will be decided in September.
Unlike many of her Democratic colleagues in the Senate, Shaheen also holds a comfortable lead in the polls as the campaigns head into the long summer months. In two separate polls conducted in June, Shaheen had a double-digit lead over Brown. In an ARG poll of registered voters, she leads 50 to 38, and in a Suffolk University/Boston Herald poll of likely voters, the margin is 49 to 39. Both polls were taken June 14-18. Those surveys are in line with the 10-point advantage in the RealClearPolitics.com average of polls.
Brown gained notoriety when he defeated Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Democrat, in the 2010 Massachusetts special election to succeed Sen. Ted Kennedy. But he lost to Elizabeth Warren in the 2012 election.
Just before the July 4th holiday, former Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney traveled to New Hampshire to formally endorse Brown, but some questioned whether the visit was wise, given Democrats are trying to paint him as a "Massachusetts carpetbagger."
However, it is notable that in the Suffolk University/Boston Herald poll, Romney led the potential field of GOP 2016 presidential candidates by a 2-1 margin.
With the aid of spirits from the nether-realms, Jeanne Shaheen has acquired the riches to hire an army of mercenaries and rule the land. But she'll probably boringly spend it to be re-elected. The witty Jennifer G. Hickey of NewsMax writes it up:
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Republican Senate candidate Jim Rubens is claiming that Jeanne Shaheen is a dupe for a wealthy billionaire who wants to suppress American coal use to better profit from investments in energy plants in southeast Asia: Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Jim Rubens today called out Jeanne Shaheen for her career record collecting direct and indirect campaign cash for doing political favors for big energy interests, her latest infusion from hedge fund billionaire and climate hypocrite Tom Steyer. U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Patty Murray (D-WA) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced legislation today to support working families across the country by enhancing the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) to help make child care more affordable. The Helping Working Families Afford Child Care Act addresses the challenge millions of families face in paying for child care by increasing the amount of eligible child care expenses used to calculate the CDCTC, and by expanding the credit to countless low-income families who currently are not eligible. U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Susan Collins (R-ME) today introduced an amendment to bipartisan sportsmen’s legislation to make all veterans with a service-connected disability eligible for a free, lifetime pass allowing entry to National Parks and other recreational lands and waters held by the United States. Shaheen and Collin’s amendment is based on the bipartisan Wounded Veterans Recreation Act the Senators introduced in May, which would amend the decade-old Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (FLREA) to give eligible veterans a lifetime parks pass to enjoy hunting, fishing and other recreation on public lands. The state Republican Party insists that Jeanne Shaheen is, in fact, supporting higher federal gas taxes: The Union Leader today reports that the Portsmouth Herald is standing by its story that highlights Jeanne Shaheen's support for a federal gas tax hike and is rejecting a request by the Shaheen campaign to change it. In a June 9th story, the Herald reported that Shaheen told a group of transportation officials in Portsmouth that she supported raising the federal gas tax. In response to last week’s Supreme Court Hobby Lobby ruling, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) will be joining a coalition of Senators today to introduce legislation that would protect women’s health care from employer interference. The legislation, the Protect Women’s Health from Corporate Interference Act of 2014, would help ensure that no employer who provides group health insurance coverage to its employees can deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage, to employees or their dependents. The Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision has generated a huge amount of controversy on NH's political scene. Perhaps it's not surprising that issues around contraception resonate so strongly in a state that has such a marked and commendable tendency to elect women to office in numbers roughly equal to men. Equally, it resonates as a partisan issue, with Democrats hoping to draw enough feminist energy from the controversy to blunt expected Republican gains in the midterms. Senator Shaheen and Governor Hassan have particularly embraced opposition to the ruling for reasons both political and personal. The following press release written concerning the round table Shaheen convened to discuss the ruling was interesting to me as a window into the personal significance of the issue for the professional class middle age women that have carried the standard so often for New Hampshire liberalism over the past generation. At the same time, it was also a performance meant to draw support. Even the setting of a group of women meeting for lunch at a restaurant is meant to pull at the affinities of a certain demographic of voters. This kind of lunch/write up is not a genre that you would ever see the Smith campaign employing for instance - he's trying to invoke a different set of associations for a different demographic. Nearly 15 years to the day after Gov. Jeanne Shaheen signed into law a bipartisan bill ensuring women’s access to affordable contraception, Senator Shaheen was joined a group of lawmakers, health advocates, employers and students to discuss the state of women’s rights. The bipartisan bill was passed with the support of 120 Republicans and 121 Democrats in the New Hampshire House. Concord - On the heels of last week's botched attempt to hide her meeting with some of Boston's top lobbyists at O'Neil Associates, today Senator Jeanne Shaheen is holding another closed door fundraiser in Massachusetts. However Shaheen still refuses to hold a town hall meeting to discuss ObamaCare with her constituents in New Hampshire. Last week, The Boston Globe reported that in 2009, Jeanne Shaheen's husband advised a company named Ultrawave Labs, which that same year received $78,000 in federal stimulus funding Shaheen voted to approve. As the Globe noted, Shaheen "had a family financial stake in the research." Making matters worse, the Globe reported that, "The Shaheens declined multiple requests for interviews and would not answer most detailed questions about their investments and connection to the firm." You know what they say, "if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck..." As a Vietnam veteran, I can proudly say the military community of New Hampshire is one step closer to getting the health care treatment it deserves thanks to the amendment Sen. Jeanne Shaheen attached to the McCain-Sanders bill that recently passed the Senate. Jeanne Shaheen joined a roundtable with the New Hampshire Association of Realtors last week to discuss the state's real estate market: "While we have seen improvements in New Hampshire's housing market, we must do more to continue to improve the housing recovery and address the issues of an evolving real estate market," Shaheen said. "The housing market is directly tied to our state's economic growth and success, so we have to continue to work to get the housing market and the economy back to where it needs to be and support homeownership for people in New Hampshire." |