Heckler Update: $750,000 and Counting
Here’s the latest from partisans seeking to ride the wave of interest in the way Rep. Joe Wilson vented to a live address to a joint session of Congress the way you or I might shout at the television.
The Democrat trying again to unseat Wilson, Rob Miller, has now taken in more than $700,000 in campaign donations, according to a the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. There’s also a running tally on the Web site of the clearinghouse site ActBlue.com that runs a bit behind the DCCC’s e-mail updates.
Over at the campaign of Republican Wilson, the congerssman declares “I will not back down” and has posted a video fund-raising appeal.