Do You Wonder Who This Year's Self-Funders Trying To Buy Themselves Congressional Seats Are?

Qualcomm's Irwin Jacobs (R) is spending $9 million to try to buy his granddaughter Sara (D-ish) a House seat

Most of 2018's self fund-funders lost their elections. The ones who won-- both Republicans and Democrats-- have all turned out to be horrible members of Congress, all with F rated voting records. All save the interests of their class; none serve the interests of working families:

• David Trone (New Dem-MD)- $17,913,172
• Gil Cisneros (New Dem-CA)- $9,252,762
• Greg Gianforte (R-MT)- $2,400,000
• Van Taylor (R-TX)- $2,387,125
• Dan Meuser (R-PA)- $1,426,442
• Dean Phillips (New Dem-MN)- $1,349,561

This year's top House candidates and the amount of the checks they wrote themselves:

• Kathaleen Wall (R-TX)- $7,472,467 (lost primary... again. In 2018, she ran in another district which rejected her after she spent 6,206,351 of her own)
• Adam Schiefer (D-NY)- $5,197,000 (lost primary)
• Darrell Issa (R-CA)- $3,202,438 (carpetbagger trying desperately to get back in Congress)
• Casey Askar (R-FL)- $3,000,000 (came in 3rd in an open-seat primary)
• Sara Jacobs (New Dem-CA)- $2,974,189 (She spent 2,714,931 of her own in 2018, lost and is trying to win another district, using family money to oppose progressive City Council president Georgette Gomez.)
• William Figlesthaler (R-FL)- $2,185,821 (came in 4th in the same race Askar came in 3rd)
• Rep. David Trone (New Dem-MD)- $1,945,000 (spent $13,385,373 to lose in 2016, switch districts and spent $17,913,172 of his own to win, run up a terrible record and is now spending more than any other incumbent in Congress to hold onto his seat.)
• Lisa McClain (R-MI)- $1,450,000 (spent like a madwoman to win her primary for an open red seat that the DCCC is not fighting for at all.
• Diana Harshbarger (R-TN)- $1,315,928 (same as the McClain story but Harshbarger is running against an excellent Democrat, Blair Nicole Walsingham in rural northeast Tennessee.)
• Rocky De La Fuente (R-CA)- $1,281,058 (crackpot joke candidate who lost his primary. Previously he ran for Senate in California, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wyoming simultaneously.)
• Josh Eisen (R-NY)- $1,250,000 (lost primary)
• Michelle Steel (R-CA)- $1,226,740 (won primary and is now up against New Dem Harley Rouda, who spent $960,676 of his own in 2018 but doesn't want to spend his own money this year)
• Nancy Goroff (New Dem-NY)- $1,155,600
• Ricardo De La Fuente (D-TX)- $1,153,125 (running against a freshman Republican in the Corpus Christi to Bay City seat, which should be flippable-- but not by this clown)
• Chris Ekstrom (R-TX)- $1,059,000 (lost primary)
• Michelle Caruso-Cabrera (NY)- $1,033,600 (joke candidate who ran against AOC, spending nearly $100 per vote and winding up with just 18%.
Ihssane Leckey (D-MA)- $1,006,000 (only progressive self-funding; lost primary)
• Victoria Spartz (R-IN)- $1,002,350 (won primary to face Democrat Christina Hale in an open swing district)