An update from our October filing.
The October period was a blur! We appreciate you and do our best to stretch every contribution to our shared benefit!
Georgia’s State Ethics Commission requires candidates and incumbents to report all contributions, expenditures, loans, and investments on a rolling basis. And in election years these filings are required at the ends of January, April, June, September … and in October!
So, let’s take a look at what our October filings can tell us about how the two campaigns compare.
OUR CAMPAIGN HAS MASS & MOMENTUM.
From the very beginning, our SEC filings demonstrate a consistent trend—our campaign’s success engaging with individual donors across all three counties in the 56: Cherokee, Cobb, and Fulton. And while our campaign has recently begun to benefit from some institutional donations as well, the lion’s share of our fundraising continues to come from an expanding cohort of individual donations.
If we contextualize this individual-donation data, two powerful success metrics are revealed:
First, if we examine the total donor populations of each campaign, we find ours is dramatically outperforming our opponent’s by a factor of 4.26! From July 1, 2023 through October 25, 2024, our campaign benefited from 324 individual donors—many of whom are repeat contributors—compared to our opponent’s 76—most of whom contributed just once.
Second, if we plot our campaign’s fundraising performance over time—scaled for the duration of each SEC reporting period in months (seven, three, two, three, and one, respectively)—we see a clear and accelerating momentum. While it took seven months to raise our first $9,257—mostly from friends and family—we managed to raise $13,991 in just 25 days in October!
OUR CAMPAIGN ENJOYS FAR MORE SUPPORT ACROSS THE DISTRICT.
In addition to engaging with more than four times as many individual donors, our donor base also represents a more geographically diverse and representative population.
Mapping our campaign’s historical and October donor addresses, we can see both how our campaign continues to grow and continues to represents a broad swath of the population across all the communities in the 56 as well as kindred communities in the surrounding uncontested State Senate districts, too—represented by senators John Mclaurin (D-14) to the east and Kay Kirkpatrick (R-32) to the west.
And when we compare this map to our opponent’s geographic footprint, the difference couldn’t be more dramatic. While we both benefit from a higher concentration of donors in our shared hometown of Roswell, John Albers’ reach is almost nonexistent beyond the boundaries of the 2020 redistricting. Indeed, you can count the number of Albers’ individual donors from Cherokee and Cobb on one hand!
Whatever the outcome of this year’s election, I am incredibly proud of the hard work my campaign team has done to reach out and engage with the residents of the 56—across all our communities, neighborhoods, and cities!
JD JORDAN FOR GEORGIA STATE SENATE DISTRICT 56
For anyone in East Cobb, Roswell, or Woodstock alarmed by the state’s escalating attacks on our bodies, our families, our doctors’ offices, our classrooms and libraries, even our polling places, I’m running for state senate district 56 to fight for our freedoms and to deliver a better future for everyone in Georgia.
And unlike my opponent who’s spent 14 years rolling back our freedoms, failing to safeguard our kids, and gerrymandered his district to stay in office, I promise to bring everyone in the 56—regardless of ideology—the best possible constituent experience so you feel heard, valued, and supported. As we all deserve to be.
I’m running for the 56. Let’s make a better Georgia for all of us.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT
Jordan For Georgia, LLC
10800 Alpharetta Hwy Ste 208 #629
Roswell, GA 30076-1467
jdjordan@forthe56.com
706.804.0456
