Benker's support melting away

The last campaign reports before Election Day were turned in Wednesday, and it isn't looking good for Karen Benker.  Her financial support, which says a lot about her overall support in the community, continues to dry up.  She only raised $325 between 10/18 - 10/25.  By comparison, her opponent Katie Witt raised $1,555 in the same time frame.

Ms. Benker's funds on hand with a week left in the campaign was a meager $340.  Ms. Witt's: $5,419.

Ms. Benker's total fundraising as of 10/25 came to $7,930.  Ms. Witt: $17,290.

The extent of Ms. Benker's expenditures was a fairly forgettable ad in the Times-Call on Oct 24th.  I follow such things fairly closely, and I had to go find it to remember what it said, and if we forgot, it probably didn't even make it on the radar of voters who don't pay a lot of attention to the campaign.  But this ad was full of the usual falsehoods:

1. Only candidate that signed the laughable civil campaign pledge.  She's kept this pledge by filing one complaint after another with the Election Committee and using it as her free campaign tool.  She's only shown herself to be vindictive, spiteful, and a crybaby.
2. "You are a great member of council, city is better because of you" or some such nonsense.  Yes, it's terrific, just look at all the failure and blight just in her ward alone.
3. Brandon Shaffer's worthless endorsement, big woop.
4. "..woman of high integrity..hard work on Clover Basin"  This is from someone who sends out fawning Benker emails to her neighbors in Clover Basin.  Tip: they don't all agree with you, well, the ones that know the facts of how Ms. Benker about drove a stake into this neighborhoods heart with her ill advised "put it on the ballot" idea.  Integrity?  Please, see #1 again.

"Exploding hits" to a mediocre website is nothing to crow about.  I hope she's not paying too much for that service, it's pretty poorly designed, and is just a whine-fest of what all those nasty people have been saying about her - nevermind it's all true.  And what's with having weird characters (Ø's and ü's) for bullet points?  People know where to get the "real facts", and where to read fairy tales.

I guess the phone banks for her are in action, a whole 2 or 3 people, and I'm sure we'll see the expenditure somewhere for the list they surely had to buy - but haven't yet.  Odd.  Or are they using an old list filled with all those thousands of ballots that have been returned as "undeliverable".  Which is a fitting term for this candidate.