Showing posts with label Fundraising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fundraising. Show all posts

Monday, July 6, 2015

"in the three months since he launched his campaign"

July 06, 2015 Fundraising , Presidential Election 2016 0 Comments
Cruz Presidential Campaign Says Supporters Donated $51 Million

By Reuters, Jul. 5, 2015, Yahoo.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Ted Cruz and the outside groups supporting his presidential bid have raised more than $51 million in the three months since he launched his campaign for president, according to a statement from his campaign on Sunday.

Cruz, who announced his candidacy on March 23 in a speech at the conservative school Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, has raised far less in donations directly to his campaign than his supporters have collected for the four outside spending groups supporting him.

The statement said there were 175,000 individual donations to the campaign with an average contribution of $81. About $10 million came in during the second quarter of the year.

Final figures from political action committees supporting him have not been released yet but the Cruz campaign said that in June the groups announced having already brought in more than $37 million.


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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

She'll even take food stamps

June 10, 2015 Daniel Halper , Fundraising 0 Comments
Hillary Asks Donors For $1 

By Daniel Halper, Jun. 9, 2015, Weekly Standard

Hillary Clinton is asking supporters to chip in a buck. In an email this afternoon, Clinton writes, "I’m asking you to step up today, give just $1, and become a Launch Donor -- one of the tough, essential supporters who stood with me from the very beginning."

But Clinton says it's not about the dollar.

"It's not about the money. It's about knowing that when I step on the stage on Saturday, you’re with me. You have my back -- just like I’ll have yours."

The ask is a lot less expensive than the one Clinton is making of those who want to attend the fundraiser with singer Jon Bon Jovi. A ticket to that event costs between $1,000-$2,700.

Source: www.weeklystandard.com

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Bet Ed Schultz wouldn't pay that for his heart

February 04, 2015 Examiner.com , Former Vice-President Dick Cheney 0 Comments
RNC Throws Online Sale: Dick Cheney's Cowboy Hat For $72 

Frmr. VP Dick Cheney
Source:  www.examiner.com
By Kevin McClarity, Feb. 3, 2015, Examiner.com

Almost as a testimony to how hard it is these days to raise money for political parties, the Republican National Committee, (RNC), now is preparing to sell replicas of Former Vice-President Dick Cheney's cowboy hat for $72 apiece, according to ABC News on Monday. While Cheney was Vice-President, his all white cowboy hat became famous as his signature item of attire. The hat became the iconic symbol of Cheney's Vice-Presidency as well as his mark of singular distinction. Having come from Wyoming, Cheney seemed to exemplify the rugged, independent life-stye that is very popular among men from western states.

During his tenure as Vice-President, Cheney was a very high-profile figure who was hard to ignore. He was in charge of America's aggressive actions against terrorists, including but not limited to water boarding, which is a form of torture that involves forcing water down the throats of those thought to be withholding information from their interrogators. The practice is very controversial, even though it was enthusiastically condoned by George W. Bush, who was President during Cheney's tenure as Vice-President. There are some who have intimated that Cheney should be tried for war crimes because of his exercise of the water boarding torture technique, while others believe that we never would have learned important information about impending terrorist attacks had it not been for the water boarding actions taken by Cheney.

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Monday, October 13, 2014

They are SO over Obama

October 13, 2014 David Rufful , Fundraising 0 Comments
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Neighbors Speak Their Mind About Her And Obama

By David Rufful, Oct. 12, 2014, Youngcons.com

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow hosted an a Democrat fundraiser at her Los Angeles home. Paltrow was more than eager to express her love for Obama, saying it would be a good idea to give him unlimited power. “It would be wonderful if we were able to give this man all of the power that he needs to pass the things that he needs to pass,” Paltrow said.

Her neighbors, however, weren’t nearly as excited about the event.

From BizPac Review:

Some want to kick the A-list actress out of the upscale neighborhood because of the event, which cost $1,000 to $32,000 per head.

“Traffic stood still, children were stranded at school, residents could not leave their own driveways,” The New York Times reported. “That’s not the way life is supposed to be lived in Mandeville Canyon.”

According to The Times, neighbor Bret Lewis posted on a private website for residents that the neighborhood doesn’t need people “who pay no heed to the concerns of their neighbors.”

“She belongs in the movie theaters, and President Obama can entertain in the Staples Center,” he wrote.

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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Attends 32K Fundraiser Hosted By Billionaire Rich Richman -You're kidding?

October 09, 2014 Dailymail.co.uk , Democratic National Committee 0 Comments
Obama Hits GOP As Party Of Billionaires

By Francesca Chambers, Oct. 8, 2014, Dailymail.co.uk

President Barack Obama chided the Republican Party for catering to the 'interests of billionaires' in an email to supporters on Tuesday, then attended a series of high-dollar fundraisers, including one at real estate mogul Rich Richman's house.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser at Richman's house in Greenwich, Connecticut, cost as much as $32,400 a person, according to the White House.

The other two events, held in New York and sponsored by the Democratic National Committee, cost between $1,000 and $32,400 to attend.

As Obama was yucking it up with wealthy Democratic donors, he sent out a fundraising email slamming the GOP for being in the pocket of billionaires, the Washington Times reports.

'If the Republicans win, we know who they’ll be fighting for,' Obama allegedly wrote. 'Once again, the interests of billionaires will come before the needs of the middle class.'

The president opined in the email that 'Republican groups are spending massive sums against us.'

At the fundraisers Obama did not discuss Republican representatives' loyalties, but he did plead with donors to elect Democrats in November if they want to see changes to the immigration system, paid family leave, repairs to the country's infrastructure and an increase in the federal minimum wage.

'We have achieved so much but we still have so much to do,' Obama told attendees of the DNC event in New York. 'So far, we can't get Republicans to cooperate.'

The president told his audience that despite Republican obstructionism in Congress, his administration has had a number of successes, as well.

'The reason you don't hear about them is they elicit hope,' he said. 'They're good news.'

The cynical media doesn't like to promote good news, he argued.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Looks like the coronation's over

July 22, 2014 Fundraising , President Barack Obama 0 Comments
LA Street Artist Blasts Obama for 'Scandalous' Fundraiser

By Truth Revolt, Jul. 22, 2014, Truthrevolt.com

President Obama arrives in Los Angeles for his $32,000 per plate fundraiser at the home of Shonda Rhimes this week, a local street artist is pointing out the irony of the producer of the hit TV show Scandal, a show about a Washington public relations firm that specializes in managing political scandals, hosting the producer of such actual scandals as the cover-up surrounding the Benghazi attack, the lost hard-drives of IRS officials targeting conservatives, and the Fast and Furious gun running scheme.

Posters went up Monday night all over Hollywood around Rhimes's Hancock Park home and the Sunset Gower Studios where Scandal is filmed.

The posters feature a modified version of the Scandal logo, which now reads “Scandals” and a quote from Rhimes's infamous commencement speech at Dartmouth where she urged graduates, “Don’t be an asshole.” The artist added a hashtag to the epithet in a seeming nod to another part of Rhimes's speech in which the producer called out online social movements like Michelle Obama's #SaveOurGirls as being faux-activism. “A hashtag is not a movement,” Rhimes declared.

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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Democratic Fundraiser Hotel Magnate Sant Singh Chatwal Pleads Guilty --Evading the campaign limits dems SAY they want

April 20, 2014 Associated Press , Campaign Spending Limits 0 Comments
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Clinton
with Sant Singh Chatwa
By Tom Hayes, Apr. 17, 2014, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — A wealthy hotel executive and Democratic fundraiser who supported Hilary Clinton for president pleaded guilty Thursday to charges he secretly funneled more than $180,000 in illegal campaign contributions to three unnamed candidates and coached someone to lie about it.

An informant caught Sant Singh Chatwal on tape in 2010 explaining that he believed his illegal fundraising bought him access to people in power.

Without the contributions "nobody will even talk to you," Chatwal said. "That's the only way to buy them, get into the system."

Chatwal entered the plea to evading contribution limits and witness tampering in federal court in Brooklyn as part of a plea deal. He faces a maximum of nearly six years in prison at sentencing on July 31 and must forfeit $1 million. He free on $750,000 bond secured by property in Manhattan.

Chatwal, 70, was not required to describe his crimes in court. After the plea, his spokesman passed out a written statement saying he "deeply regrets his actions and accepts full responsibility for the consequences."

U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a statement that Chatwal "sought to buy access to power through unlimited and illegal campaign contributions, funneling money from the shadows of straw donors."

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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Funding Limits--A Game Changer? --1st amendment is a beautiful thing

April 02, 2014 Campaign Funds , Democrats 0 Comments
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a key pillar of federal campaign finance law by allowing donors to give money to as many political candidates, parties and committees as they wish.
In the latest in a series of decisions by the high court that have given big-money donors more influence in U.S. elections, the justices rejected the overall limits on how much individuals can donate during a federal two-year election cycle.
The ruling - a 5-4 decision with the court's more conservative justices in the majority - could have an immediate impact on the 2014 midterm elections, in which Republicans are likely to keep control of the House of Representatives and are seeking to gain six Senate seats to take over that chamber.
The decision does not affect rules that limit donors from giving $2,600 per candidate in primaries and another $2,600 in general elections. But it does eliminate the "aggregate" donation limits of $48,600 to candidates and $74,600 to state and local political party committees during each two-year cycle.

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