Posted on 03/10/2016 8:33:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Cruz ruined his own joke and thus his point - oops.
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When running for president you also have to raise money for the party and candidates. It no longer is your own show in a way but a team effort.
Smart
Trump loaned the money to his campaign, he could retire his campaign costs with donations at a later point. And he’s taken in a couple million in donations from the public beyond the money he himself fronted.
Bustle?!?!?!
Plenty of articles about it, choose you own source of liking.
This was the first match on google
Is Donald Trump self-funding his campaign? Sort of
By Lauren Carroll on Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 at 4:00 p.m.
...”Trump’s campaign brought in about $19.4 million by the end of 2015. Trump contributed nearly $13 million of that himself. Most of the remainder comes from individual contributions, which federal law caps at $2,700 per candidate per election.”...
“There is, though, a ‘donate’ button on Trump’s website.”
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...”But in the last quarter, Trump gave his campaign a $10.8 million loan, turning that balance around.”
“That brings us to the second caveat: The vast majority of Trump’s contributions to his own campaign — about $12.6 million — are loans rather than donations. This means he could expect to eventually recoup these funds.”
“Further, of the approximately $12 million Trump’s campaign spent in 2015, about $2.7 million went toward reimbursing Trump-affiliated companies for services provided to the campaign, such as traveling in his own plane and helicopter, according to a New York Times analysis.”
I range far-and-wide in my search for news for this site. You’re welcome.
Oh thanks for the links...Inteeresting because I am on various candidates’ email lists...Trump NEVER asked for money...not once.
Cruz on the onther hand...as many as 3 times a day and snail mail too. Have gotten email from Rubio and Kasich as well.
I am more than happy to donate to Trump if he wins general...
TRUMP rallies are FREE. Cruz does fundraisers...$120 plate to get in...
Mr. Haney!!! LOL!!!!!
That sounds like something Governor Perry would have said.
Mr. Obama’s thoughts on Mr. Cruz need not be acknowleged. In fact, Mr. Obama’s thoughts on any topic or person is not worthy of consideration. Have an awesome weekend.
You’re right. In the 80s I worked as a plant process engineer at Buckeye Cellulose, owned by P&G. We made the highest quality filter paper and rayon stock in the world. It was in fact P&Gs most profitable plant in the country of any type.
Despite what econuts would have you believe, products like this - made from tree cellulose, require enormous inputs of pines (plantation pines - grown and harvested by said companies in vast tracts of land here in the US). The myth that this county has been ‘deforested’ is false. There are more trees today than 200 years ago. The only concession I’d make is that the “old growth” is severely diminished, but where isn’t it?
Your a freakin idiot
Bkmrk
I have friends who lease land in the SE to paper companies for pine growing/harvesting. I have seen those giant scissor looking machines that cut the pines down. They look so scary to me...as in horror fantasy about getting snipped in two by one.
I am actually surprised Cruz didn’t know most disposable diapers sold here are produced here..I guess he was just trying to “scare” mom’s by saying that.
The plant I worked for had a million acres of plantation pines in all states. Perpetual replacement. It takes 20 years for a plantation pine.
Thanks for that info. I had no idea it took 20 years from sapling to harvest. I learned something new thanks to you.
IIRC, you are also the person from whom I learned, “it isn’t just me” w/ the mag dropping Taurus.
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