Here at RochesterTurning, we’re working with the Working Families Party and WFPBlog, along with several other bloggers across the state to bring you this coordinated reporting of Q2 numbers from various Congressional races today. For other districts, see the end of this post. Many thanks to optimusprime, who beat me to it in his post below, and added some important context. To quote him:

…let me bring everyone up to snuff on the latest FEC report. The first column is Net Receipts, second is spending of receipts, this is cash on hand, and the fourth row is debt.

Name	Dist	Net Rcts	Spending	Cash on Hand	Debt	Qtr End
KUHL, JOHN R JR	29	$888,756	$402,905	$562,747	$0	06/30/2006
MASSA, ERIC JJ	29	$499,136	$308,156	$190,979	$78,899	06/30/2006

Though Kuhl has an upper hand, I should point out that $598,000 out of the $888,756 Kuhl has received so far are from PACs. Kuhl has received only $271,000 from individual donors. This means that Kuhl has to rely heavily on BIG$$$ from special interests and beltway lobbyists to fund his campaign. I urge everyone to donate 20…25…50 bucks to Massa.

[UPDATE: See, I was taught that if someone gives you money, you owe them something. And if someone gives you a TON of money, you owe them bigtime. Let's see, Rubberstamp Randy gets most of his money from corporate special interests. So...he must work for...corporations. Ok, so...Eric Massa gets his money from you, so he must work for...wait, don't tell me.

Who do you think is going to do a better job representing YOU in Congress?]

[Update II: From the comments: Rottenchester, who is, as usual, on top of things, notes:

Your readers might be interested in the raw reports themselves. Kuhl’s list of PAC donors is awfully damning. Here’s Massa’s

You don't have to be an expert in PACs to see the diff. Kuhl's list is many, many pages long, with a lot of out-of-state PACs contributing. Guess that explains why he's not able to represent the people of NY-29. (Massa's, by comparison, is about a page, and is either general progressive PACs or other Dem's PACs.) My personal faves of Kuhl's are:

• US-Cuba Democracy PAC -- for all those Cuban exiles in the 29th
• Texas Freedom Fund -- expect Randy to ride into Austin to liberate all those enslaved Texans
• Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative PAC -- Um, Randy, you live in UPSTATE NY, not MN. Sorry to break it to you.
• R.J. Reynolds PAC -- supporting all those non-existant tobacco farmers in the southern tier
• And of course the Wal-Mart PAC, so they can continue to suck the life and small business out of NY-29
• ...and many more...

You know what I found the funniest? The sheer number of PACs with the words "Prosperity", "Progress", or "Reform" in the name. 'Cause, you know, NY-29's seen a lot of those three since Kuhl's been in office.

So thanks Rottenchester, I needed a good laugh.]

I’m working on digging up info on NY-29 voting demographics, and comparing them to OH-02 (Paul Hackett, Fighting Dem who almost won the reddest district in Ohio last year). From everything I’ve seen so far, though, this is a very winnable district. Stay tuned…

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