Steve Welch Announces $1,000,000 Cash On Hand – Welch’s momentum continues into 2012
January 3, 2012Website: www.WelchforPa.com
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January 3, 2011
Steve Welch Announces $1,000,000 Cash On Hand
Welch’s momentum continues into 2012
Paoli, PA – Today the Welch for Senate Campaign announced that it has $1,000,000 cash on hand heading into 2012. Since Steve Welch’s entry into the race on October 13, 2011, the campaign has raised $125,000. Steve Welch has loaned his campaign $1,000,000 in personal funds. With his fundraising infrastructure now in place, including announced Western PA and Eastern PA Finance Chairmen, Steve Welch clearly will have the financial resources to win the GOP nomination and defeat Bob Casey in November 2012. Coupled with the supported of grassroots leaders across the state, the Welch campaign has had an extremely successful first two and a half months.
Steve Welch added: “I am honored to have received the support of those who have contributed to my campaign. The contributions come from people who are concerned about the direction of our country and the ever growing size of our federal government. The Obama-Casey agenda continues to add mountains of debt that future generations will have to pay. The people of Pennsylvania deserve a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp for the failed policies of this President’s agenda.”
Finance Team:
Western PA Finance Co-Chair: Jeff Kendall – Hosted successful fundraisers for Senator Toomey and the Keith Rothfus for Congress Campaign’s
Eastern PA Finance Co-Chair: Wayne Woodman – Hosted successful fundraisers for Senator Toomey and Congressman Charlie Dent
Rob Bickhart – Finance Director, Senator Santorum’s 2006 Finance Director, Former RNC Finance Director
Amy Petraglia & Carey Dunn – Western PA Finance Team, served in the same role for Governor Corbett & Senator Toomey’s Campaign’s
Kristin Corrigan – Southeast Fundraising Consultant, served in the same role for Governor Corbett’s Campaign
Political Team:
Chairman Ethan Demme – Lancaster County
Chairman Wayne Woodman – Lehigh County
Lehigh County Commissioner – Lisa Scheller
Jon Lerner – General Consultant, served as Senator Toomey’s General Consultant
John Bradenber – Media Consultant, served as Governor Corbett’s General Consultant and Media Consultant
Brain Nutt – Political Advisor, Governor Corbett’s Campaign Manager
Peter Towey – Campaign Manager, Senator Toomey’s Political Director
Jack Posobiec – Field Director, Deputy Campaign Manager for Steve Johnson’s Lt. Governor’s Campaign
Grassroots Advisory Board:
Rich Davis, Chester County Sheepdogs
Karl Bucus, PA Watercooler
Sean Carpenter, Pennsylvania Conservative Council
Barry Papiernik, Host of Live and Local, WFYL, Montgomery County
Lisa Mossie, Co-Host of Live and Local, WFYL Montgomery County
About Steve
The son of an engineer and teacher, Steve Welch grew up in Chester County, Pennsylvania and attended Penn State University where he earned a Mechanical Engineering degree. Steve, his wife Nicole, and their three young children live in Chester County. Steve started his first major business enterprise, Mitos, in 2001 with hardly a cent to his name. Under Steve’s guidance Mitos developed several critical patents which transformed the biological drug and vaccine industries. The company still resides in Phoenixville, PA under Parker Hannifin guidance. Following the sale of Mitos, Steve co-foundedDreamIt Ventures, a new business accelerator model that has been featured in Forbes, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal as a new model for launching technology companies. In just four years, DreamIt Ventures has helped launch 64 new companies. From this experience, Steve has worked with hundreds of early stage entrepreneurs to turn their dreams into reality. As an Eisenhower Fellow, Steve spent time in Asia and Europe studying all aspects of economic development, examining how government policy, technology, and culture impact job creation. In 2010, Steve published We are all Born Entrepreneurs, in which he uses his story and those of over a dozen other entrepreneurs to explain what drives invention, innovation, and job creation. In 2011, he founded the education technology company KinderTown, a business designed to help parents engage in their children’s education at an early age.
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