The following excerpt refers to Obama’s Campaign organization and money:
“... interesting payments during the first three months of the year [2009], the period covered by Wednesday’s report, included $688,000 in legal fees to the firm of Bob Bauer — the top lawyer for the campaign...”
Note: this is just to one law office. (Original source was Politico).
Obama Campaign Still Funds Operations ($688K to atty, incl. eligibility lawsuits (01 to 03/09)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232462/posts
Well, Eagle Forgotten, are you satisfied that lawyers are really working at covering up this President’s past? It is a truism, you know, that people with something to hide go to great lengths to do so. Those who don’t, well, they let it all hang out.
What was Rahm doing when he disappeared in Africa for a couple of weeks around Christmas? Clean up?
I assume that there’s no requirement for release of the breakdown of the legal bill, only the total amount paid. Therefore, we don’t know how much related to eligibility lawsuits. There was also presumably a fair amount of legal work relating to other issues. One example is the finances, including the transfer of funds to the DNC. (Navigating the complexities of campaign finance law is no joke. My guess is that it can get expensive.) Another example: The non-legal expenditures included almost a million bucks for “event staging”, so there were probably issues of permit applications, vendor contracts, and other stuff for the lawyers in connection with whatever those events were. (What events were they? I thought the Inauguration was paid for out of a separate account.)
It’s an interesting article, and I thank you for providing the link. The bottom line, though, is that we still don’t know the bottom line. We know that Obama has been represented by counsel in multiple cases in different states. We also know that Obama had lawyers other than Bauer’s firm doing some of that defense work, so the total bill is presumably more than whatever Bauer was paid for eligibility litigation. On the other hand, we know that some of the defense work was done by state attorneys general or other lawyers representing state officials, and thus was no expense to Obama. The biggest gap is that we don’t know how much of Bauer’s bill related to eligibility.
These are private expenditures, not taxpayer dollars, so my guess is that we never will know the number.
Time to bump this to the top again ...