IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Doug Owens has topped Congresswoman Love ($349,675 to $314,257) in the 4th quarter of 2015 with Love squandering nearly as much money as she took in. Most importantly, Owens added 17X as much cash-on-hand in Q4. Owens impressive fundraising – and Love’s inability to manage her money – is nothing new. In the 3rd quarter, Love only managed to add just under $139,000 to her cash-on-hand while Owens’s added a full $284,700 to his cash-on-hand.
“Congresswoman Love has demonstrated an ability to squander money – both that of the taxpayers and her campaign,” said DCCC Spokesman Tyler Law.
DOUG OWENS Q4:
http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00581827/1042073/
MIA LOVE Q4:
http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00505776/1045456/
ICYMI: Doug Owens outraises Rep. Mia Love in last three months
The Salt Lake Tribune
By Matt Canham
February 1, 2016
For the first time, Democrat Doug Owens has had a better fundraising quarter than Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, although the incumbent maintains an overall financial advantage in what is expected to be the state’s most competitive 2016 congressional contest.
Love, the freshman representative in Utah’s 4th Congressional District, released her year-end report on Friday, showing that she pulled in $324,800 in the previous three months, and she spent $301,600.
Owens, an attorney who lost to Love in 2014 by a little more than 5 percentage points, released his report earlier this week. It showed that he raised $349,700 in the same period and spent $134,900.
As a consequence, the financial gap between the candidates is as small as it has ever been. Love has $781,000 in available cash to Owens’ $499,500.
This is important because Owens and his team believe they could have had a better showing last time if he was able to wage an aggressive TV ad campaign early.
In that race, Love, a strong fundraiser in part due to her historic status as the first black Republican woman in Congress, outspent him by $4 million overall and Owens got almost no support from national Democrats.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has targeted Love this time and Owens, son of former Rep. Wayne Owens, is better organized. Still, the Love team remains unimpressed.
So far, Owens seems to be sticking to the script he followed in 2014, where he touts himself as a moderate Democrat focused on boosting the pay of middle income Utahns, while labeling Love an “extremist” out of touch with voters.
The 4th District represents much of the western half of Salt Lake and Utah counties and some of central Utah.