Dan Coats Is In the Money

Both in terms of giving money to his campaign:

GOP Senate candidate Dan Coats loaned his campaign $200,000 last week. Coats earlier loaned it $25,000, money he promised to provide as start-up funds.

State Democratic Chairman Dan Parker sees the new loan as a sign of trouble for the presumed frontrunner in the GOP primary. Coats spokesman Pete Seat, meantime, says it’s a bridge between pledges and deposits.

And in terms of the money he made last year from lobbying:

$821,887

That’s the amount of earned income Dan Coats reports in his Senate ethics filing.

That's not a bad haul. Nothing compared to what Susan Bayh probably made last year with stock options as a "professional board member" though.

But the first item begs a simple question, I suppose.

If donations were coming in at a rapid pace, why would any loan be really that necessary at all?