Posted on 06/05/2010 8:30:23 AM PDT by curth
Sarah Palin’s Eugene speech helped the Lane County Republicans pull in more than a quarter-million dollars in revenue — enough that even after paying costs for the conservative headliner’s appearance, the party is still sitting on a mountain of cash for campaign spending.
Contributing to the local party’s hefty haul is the bargain it apparently got for the cost of her April 23 appearance. Campaign-finance disclosures indicate the Lane County Republican Party has paid Palin’s booking agency $35,000 — less than half of what media reports indicate is Palin’s standard fee for West Coast appearances.
With the fall elections approaching, the Lane County Republican Central Committee has a balance of $118,153, according to its campaign finance disclosures to the Oregon Secretary of State’s Elections Division. Typically, local party committees use their funds to help their party’s candidates, locally or statewide.
Chairman Bill Young said that while it might have struck some as an audacious move for a Republican Party in a predominantly Democratic-voting Oregon county, it paid off nicely.
“It turned out to be a good money-maker for us,” said Young, a veterinarian who also is running for a state House seat in Eugene. “And it turned out to be a great, motivational, exciting event for us.”
Typically, the Lane County Republican Central Committee brings in contributions from a handful of monthly donors, Young said, but nothing like what it has collected this year.
In 2009, for example, the party started the year $1,440 in debt and ended up with reported contributions totalling $60,466. After expenses and other financial adjustments, the party ended 2009 with a balance of $328.73.
About 850 people attended Palin’s April 23 speech at the Lane Republicans’ annual Lincoln Day Dinner. It cost $250 to be in the main hall at the Hilton Eugene where Palin
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And the Lane County Dems are whining because they’ve only collected $4,324 so far this year. Love it.
Oregon ping
“Palin” and “chest” in the same sentence.
Can’t be a bad thing.
:O)
This is the funniest line of the article:
“As a party, Democrats will stick to the issues, and we’ll compete by knocking on doors,” she said.
Ha ha ha
A “swelling chest” no less.
Palin a team player out for the greater good.
Mitt all about himself.
There was an article posted on here about some Romneybot organizer who said that if he were a candidate, he’d be embarrassed to have her endorsement.
Would he be embarrassed by the money that followed from it?
`swell’
Her beauty lies
In her hazel eyes.
They make my Levis
.......
Rise.
(Now, if she could just get right with Arizona.)
FIFY
and you can see by the pace of her endorsements that candidates are now flocking to get that endorsement.
Yeah.....and I’ll bet the GOP campaign chest wasn’t the only thing “swelling.”
Sarah will be the next POTUS.
Sarah Palin will be the next POTUS!
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