Obama for America and Organizing for America are the same entity. The point is that Obama for America/Organizing for America did not close down and they are not wrapping up a campaign. They’re still in operation. They’re still paying for event rentals, equipment rentals, payroll services, legal services, web hosting, and on and on.
Perkins Coie is their general counsel. Of course Obama for America still has legal expenses.
You try again. You didn’t address post 258.
You assume that because Perkins Coie filed only 8 documents in the courts, that’s all they’ve done on the eligibility suits? Are you kidding?
Do you think it took an hour to write each of those documents? You don’t think they are researching the law, the opposition and their submissions, and tracking all the other cases, meeting with DOJ lawyers, communicating with Obama as their client and/or his designated White House staff, etc? What planet are you on?
Do you know what a firm like Perkins Coie or Wilmer Cutler charges for a young associate’s time, never mind a senior partner? $10K or $20K a month would be reasonable attorney fees for a major candidate’s presidential campaign. In excess of $100K per month is not by any stretch reasonable, if serving as general counsel is their only role. I would not argue that their fees are unreasonable, but let’s call them what they are: expenses to avoid any close scrutiny of Obama’s eligibility to sit in the Office of President of the United States. To that end, this is chump change.
What do lawyers have to do with event rentals, payroll services, web hosting, etc. Each and every one of those is itemized and paid for separately in the reports. The $331K reported to the FEC on October 15, 2009 was ONLY for Perkins Coie over a three month period which began 8 months after the election.
You seem unable to explain how the legal expenses for Obama for America or its successor managed to pay only $1M for legal expenses from January 2007 up thru the November 2008 election, when activity relating to the campaign is most intense, but $1.7M in the 11 months AFTER the election.
I appreciate your stretching for your guy, but you have yet to provide the rational explanation requested for the enormous discrepancy in legal expenditures, both between McCain/Obama post-election and especially between Obama pre- and post-election.