We think it's really something when a local candidate can call out the troops and raise $37,000 for a local election with most of them not even from Lake Worth and use every trick in the book. Obama and the DNC just raised $86 mil for Democrats and want to grow our $14 trillion dollar debt. It is simply amazing.
It seems like Obama is getting his money from ordinary working class Americans while the Republicans will have to rely on the Wall Street crooks who wrecked our economy. Thanks for the video it was good to see where the American people are heading-- they know a good thing when they see it-- but he has to get out of those stupid wars if he wants to pay down the deficit.
ReplyDeleteAbout 40 percent of President Barack Obama’s record-breaking $86 million second-quarter fundraising haul came from big-money bundlers, according to a POLITICO analysis of donors listed on Obama’s campaign web site.
ReplyDeleteNo fewer than 27 mega-bundlers managed to collect at least $500,000 for a joint account run by Obama’s 2012 campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
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That exclusive circle included marquee fundraisers like Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, Hollywood titan Jeffrey Katzenberg, DNC treasurer/personal finance guru Andrew Tobias and former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, who was CEO of Goldman Sachs before entering politics.
That group chipped in a minimum of $13.5 million, according to records. In addition, $21.4 million was bundled in amounts of between $50,000 and $499,000.
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Sounds like "ordinary working class Americans" alright.
ReplyDeleteThe campaign fundraising efforts of President Obama raised $86 million in the last three months from 500,000 people — but at least $35 million of it can be traced to just 244 well-connected supporters who collected contributions from wealthy friends. From The Washington Post
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