Showing posts with label Fundraising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fundraising. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 28, 2015
Baltimore Sun: Donors gave a super PAC $6 million. Candidates actually got about $140,000.
Before he entered the race for the White House, Ben Carson signed on to a campaign to raise money to fight Obamacare. When Juanita McMillon saw his name, she was eager to get out her checkbook.
“I think he is sincere, and I think he is honest, and I think he is exactly what we need,” said McMillon, 80, from the small town of De Kalb in northeast Texas. She gave $350.
Her money went to the American Legacy PAC, an organization with ties to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. With Carson as the face of its Save Our Healthcare campaign, American Legacy raised close to $6 million in 2014 — and spent nearly all of it paying the consultants and firms that raised the money. Just 2% was donated to Republican candidates and committees, financial reports show.
“I’m really careful who I give money to, but I guess I did not read it close enough,” McMillon said, adding that she had never heard of American Legacy. “I prefer to give money to individuals, and I assumed, I guess, that Dr. Carson was getting my money.”
More: www.baltimoresun.com
Sunday, October 18, 2015
The New York Times: Which Presidential Candidates Are Winning the Money Race
On Oct. 15, candidates filed reports with the Federal Election Commission on their finances through Sept. 30. The filings paint only a partial picture, however, because most outside groups supporting the candidates, like “super PACs,” will not submit their latest figures until Jan. 31.
See all candidate fundraising totals: www.nytimes.com
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Mediaite: Trump Campaign Has Raised $1.9 Million; $1.8 Million Came from Trump
Donald Trump filed a financial disclosure statement today, and now we have some information on exactly how much money Trump raised since announcing his presidential run last month.
One of the documents available online shows that in the second quarter of the year, Trump raised a total of $1,902,410.45. However, about 95 percent of that came from Trump himself.
Yes, the billionaire mogul loaned his own campaign $1,804,747.23, as well as giving himself an additional contribution of $4049.64, which means that Trump has only raised $92,249.33 in outside contributions.
More: www.mediaite.com
USA Today: Reports show early Wall Street support for Jeb Bush
WASHINGTON — The first ballots won't be cast for months, but Wall Street already seems to be signaling its support for Republican Jeb Bush, new campaign finance reports show.
The former Florida governor, who served until late last year as an adviser to the British bank Barclays, raised $144,900 from employees of Goldman Sachs during the first two weeks of his presidential bid, according to his filing Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, one of Bush's main rivals for support from the Republican establishment, raised far less — about $55,000 — from Goldman executives since entering the race in April.
Other signs of support for Bush from the financial sector: More than $65,000 of his haul came from employees of Neuberger Berman, an investment firm run by Bush's cousin George Walker. Another $29,700 came from Barclays employees. William Killmer, a top lobbyist for the Mortgage Bankers Association, meanwhile, raised more than $36,000 on Bush's behalf.
More: www.usatoday.com
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