Jones' Senate bid running on red ink

[davidinalameda]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/22/BAG2A9DA9R1.DTL

Republican Bill Jones' campaign for the U.S. Senate is sinking into a sea of red ink. According to a campaign finance statement filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission, Jones had $326,772 in the bank on Oct. 13, but $850,317 in unpaid debts.

The growing stack of bills includes $350,000 to a Newport Beach (Orange County) company for a direct mail pitch to voters, $31,000 to pollsters, more than $100,000 to consultants, about $40,000 for charter flights and $80,000 to the International Agri-Center in Tulare, where he held a $25-a-ticket fund- raiser last month.

In an interview Wednesday on KQED-FM in San Francisco, Jones said that his long-announced plan to put $2 million of his own money into the campaign "depends on whether I can close business deals ... I will do my level best to get it done.''


maybe Ahnuld can help him out--NOT