Posted on 02/21/2016 5:53:20 AM PST by jimbo123
As former Florida governor Jeb Bush suspended his presidential bid Saturday night, new details were trickling in about the massive investments the Right to Rise super PAC made to prop up his candidacy.
As of Saturday, the group had raced through at least $95.7 million out of the $118.6 million it had collected by the end of January, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
Almost $87 million went into a barrage of television ads, online videos, slick mailers and voter phone calls. The group flew an airplane with a banner mocking Donald Trump over a rally of his supporters, produced a 15-minute documentary detailing Bush's biography, sent Bush supporters individual video players, took out a billboard mocking Trump and crammed the airwaves in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. In the final days, Right to Rise kept the spigot on, dumping another $1.9 million into South Carolina and Nevada.
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You can make tens of millions of dollars AND be completely incompetent and irresponsible.
No need to show any results, just spend money!
95.7 million just doesn’t buy as much media as it used to especially if your a moderate business naive politician. It would be interesting to find out what amounts were spent with which media companies and who those same companies have made political donations to and in what amounts.
G.o.p.e.: Can you hear us now?
Take away the people to whom you direct your irrational hatred, and there’s nothing left of you. Like a ghost; no substance, no anything.
That and spending the past few years building up his bona fides as a left leaning moderate who celebrate expansion of government and then declaring he wanted to win without the base (you know...THOSE people) made him radioactive to me and many others.
At least the first two Bush's were clever enough to lie to the base and then betray them after winning. Jeb couldn't even get that right.
At least the first two Bushes were clever enough to lie to the base and then betray them after winning. Jeb couldnt even get that right.
In past years, I’m sure he could’ve easily bought the nomination. This all goes to show how sick of career politicians people are.
We had 20 years of Bush-Clinton and everything only got worse. Both of those families are utterly baffled that they’re done.
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