Not content to buy banks in his free time, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde has turned his attention to purchasing a seat in the United States Senate.
According to a report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Hovde has spent $3.8 million of his hedge fund fortune to try and buy the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Sen. Herb Kohl. It’s telling that Hovde’s campaign only managed to raise a paltry $350,000 in contributions from persons not named Eric Hovde, but for a guy who buys banks in his free time, support is something that can be bought, instead of of being earned.
Eric Hovde is Mitt Romney’s doppelganger.
HIS OWN MONEY! Let’s try this again, HIS OWN MONEY. But just to clarify Sen. Herb Kohl pumped $1 million from his personal funds into his campaign committee account at the end of 2010. They used THEIR OWN MONEY. OMG HOW EVIL are these people.
I don’t like Hovde or his candidacy any more than you do, but it is fair to remember that Herb Kohl spent $7M of his own money to win the seat in 1988. There is nothing inherently wrong with spending your own money. Kohl made it an asset, proclaiming he would be “nobody’s Senator but yours” and free of special interest entanglements. Of course, Kohl was also a successful Wisconsin businessman who had created thousands of jobs here, kept the Milwaukee Bucks here, and was active in civic and political circles. Hovde, despite some Wisconsin roots, seems like a carpetbagger after all of his years in DC.
It’s telling that Hovde’s ads insult the Senate and the people of Wisconsin. Do the people really want another distroyer? I’m losing faith in Americans in general and Wisconsin in particular. No wonder Islam is growing so fast.