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The money bomb effort is just another WEAK fundraising effort. So, with all of the hoopla and spam-like tweeting it is to raise a mere 60K.

Doesn’t DeVore understand that ONE week for California television advertising costs up to $3 million? California statewide direct mail to millions of voters costs a ton? And, that DeVore has only a few hundred of thousands in the bank (although the official report will not be out until next week) even though he has been campaigning for the United States Senate for over a year. For example, DeVore’s Republican opponent Carly Fiorina has raised $1.1 million in just two months of candidacy and Marco Rubio in Florida raised $1.75 million in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Look at how DeVore’s money bomb has been doing (as of last night):

DeVore is not even half-way to his $60K goal.

This morning he is up to a whopping $26,008. Not much movement there, folks.

With California Field Poll numbers at 6 per cent compared to Carly Fiorina at 25 per cent and Tom Campbell at 30 per cent, DeVore must be able to adverrtise in order to win. Add this with the fact that Californians do NOT know who he is – the same Field Poll has 81 per cent of Republicans have NO OPINION on his candidacy, he must spend the money to campaign advertise.

While DeVore’s money bomb appears to be a BOMB, more power to him, if he can successfully fundraise. If not, then Chuck DeVore WILL be beat like a drum come June election time.

Maybe Chuck should withdraw from this race and not waste his time and his donor’s money on a fruitless pursuit of election?

Ellie Light, the ubiquitous letter writer whose name appeared in newspapers nationwide praising President Barack Obama, appears to really be a male health care worker from California.

A man who identified himself as Winston Steward, 51, of Frazier Park, Calif., says he made up the name “Ellie Light” to protect himself from criticism and possible physical attacks, and used fake addresses across the country to get local newspapers to publish his letters.

“I am Winston Steward and have been sending the letters from Ellie Light,” he told The Plain Dealer in an e-mail late Tuesday, following a phone interview in which he said the same. “I hope this ends any confusion and sets the record straight.”

His e-mail address matched the address of the Ellie Light missives that were sent to newspapers to praise Obama and urged second-guessers to be patient as the president advances the Democratic agenda. The person identified as Ellie Light had been corresponding from that e-mail address to The Plain Dealer since last week, when the newspaper’s Web site, cleveland.com, disclosed that someone using the name Ellie Light was duping newspapers nationwide.

But, the entire idea about a coordinated ASTRO-TURF operation directed through the media is not. And, there are more questions to be answered.

The lesson learned here – trust but verify on and offline. Things may NOT be what they seem.

Duh……..

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