In the first round of the fight to replace Bob Ney's
Congressional candidacy with Joy Padgett, Ohio okayed Padgett; according to the Institute on Money in State Politics, her cash-on-hand after losing her primaries was $94,673. But the Ohio Democratic Party plans on challenging the ruling. Whoever may replace candidate Ney will probably receive at least some of the remaining funds held by his campaign. The Center for Responsive Politics' financial campaign data for Ney, for this election cycle, shows that he had $419,517 cash-on-hand as of June 30, 2006.

There is uncertainty about how many write-in candidates the Republican Party will support in Tom DeLay's
Texas Congressional District 22 race this fall; his June 30, 2006 cash-on-hand balance of $641,273 may still be up for grabs.

Since the replacement candidates in both Congressional races aren't incumbents, they will have to rely mostly on campaign contributions from individuals. It remains to be seen if 527 groups will take either or both races as very important to put their monies on.

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