In Montana, the race for a seat in the U.S. House is turning out to be one of the most expensive campaign projects by candidates, according to financial records and the Helena Independent Record.
Among the Democrats, Kathleen Williams has been ranked at 10th place in the amount of monetary donations received by U.S. House candidates for open-seat races last year. The democratic politician had net receipts of $1.16 million, ranking in fourth place among fellow Democrats according to end of the year financial reports filed on January 31.
For the Republican party, Matt Rosendale slid in, almost right behind Williams, with net receipts totaling $1.09 million. With such a high monetary value behind his campaign, Rosendale came in 14th place among all candidates in the race for open seats, and sixth place among his Republican peers.
Brendan Glavin, Campaign Finance Institute senior data analyst, spoke about this phenomenal occurrence and the immense dollar amount behind some candidate’s campaigns.
“When you look at what’s happening across the county, there’s not a lot of races that have two candidates at that level. I’m not seeing too much of that,” said Glavin.
“For two candidates in the same open-seat race, looks like there’s one in California, one in Texas and not much else. There’s a few other candidates with a $1 million or more, but most are in the hundreds of thousands. There’s a couple candidates over two million.”
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