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Rudy Hobbs out-raises all opponents; announces $155,000 fundraising quarter

Candidate for Congress continues to gain significant ground and momentum in 14th District race
Today, Rep. Rudy Hobbs announced he out-raised all of his opponents in the race for Michigan’s 14th Congressional District seat. For the final filing quarter before the August 5th Primary Election, Hobbs secured over $155,000 in contributions, bringing his total amount raised to over $530,000.

“Every day, our team is outpacing, outworking, and outmatching our competition,” said Hobbs. “While I’m proud to say we had a phenomenal fundraising quarter, I’m even more pleased to announce that our fundraising has continued to accelerate and we now expect to raise an additional $35,000 by the end of this week.”

Today’s announcement comes just after Epic MRA and the Detroit Free Press released a poll regarding the congressional race. The robo-poll of 822 respondents identified that Hobbs now sits at 20 points with voters across the district.

“With Rudy moving from 6 percent to 20 percent in a matter of weeks, this poll clearly shows that momentum is on Rudy’s side,” said Jamaine Dickens, a principal at DMC Strategies, the firm managing Hobbs for Congress. “We’ve assembled an overwhelming cross-section of supporters; assembled a far superior campaign organization; and are executing a campaign strategy that this poll indicates is working.”

Hobbs continues to amass unmatched endorsements from business, civic, labor, and clergy leaders across the region; and just recently he added the Michigan AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers, the Detroit News, and the UAW, to his long list of supporters.


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“Our momentum is building with each call, knock, and conversation we have across this district,” said Hobbs. “Come August 5th, I’m confident the voters of Greater Detroit will choose fresh ideas and new leadership to represent them in Washington.”
About Rudy Hobbs:

Raised in Detroit, Rudy lived the struggles facing working families. Rudy and his wife paid their way through college making minimum wage. A first grade teacher in Detroit Public Schools until Governor Engler took over DPS, Rudy entered politics to be a voice for the voiceless. Driven to better his community, Rudy served on the school board and worked as Congressman Sander Levin’s Michigan Director and as an adviser to Governor Granholm. After being elected to the Legislature, Hobbs was chosen for leadership by his colleagues. He received several ‘Legislator of the Year’ awards and rose to become Michigan’s highest-ranking African-American elected official.

Hobbs is supported by a sizable list of grassroots, civic and political supporters from across the 14th district, including: The Detroit News, The United Automobile Workers (UAW), AFL-CIO Michigan, AFSCME Council 25, the Michigan Education Association, U.S. Senator Carl Levin, U.S. Congressman Sander Levin, U.S. Congressman Dan Kildee, former Governor James Blanchard, former Governor Jennifer Granholm, former Lieutenant Governor John Cherry, Bishop Edgar L. Vann, II of Detroit’s Second Ebenezer Church, MSU Board of Trustees Chairman Joel Ferguson, former Southfield City Councilwoman Barbara Talley, and five of the seven Southfield City Councilmembers. For a full list, please visit our website at
http://rudyhobbsforcongress.com/endorsements/.


 


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