Posted on 03/05/2016 7:06:09 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Ben Carson ran for president, and his consultants won.
The political newcomer, who plans to announce Friday afternoon that he will become chairman of a group that encourages Christians to vote, raised $58 million, more money than any other GOP contender raised.
But an Associated Press review of his campaign finance filings show Carson’s campaign is an extreme example of the big-money business of presidential politics. His campaign burned through the millions he raised by spending more on fundraising and consultants than on mass media advertising, on-the-ground employees and other things that could have swayed voters, the filings show.
Over the past week, the candidate himself, a soft-spoken retired Baltimore neurosurgeon, has wondered aloud whether his campaign aides took advantage of him, even saying he was disappointed in himself for trusting some people around him “without really vetting them carefully.”
Carson addressed the issue in an interview with CNN last week and again Thursday in a Yahoo News interview with journalist Katie Couric, who questioned Carson on whether his campaign had spent so much on fundraising to gather a list of donors for a future business venture.
“Mistakes were made,” Carson said. “We probably had the wrong team in place, people who probably had different objectives than I did. And once we discovered that and rectified it, the situation changed dramatically.”
Some people who worked with Carson’s presidential campaign are positioned to continue profiting from his elevated profile even after he officially ends his bid.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
As humor columnist Dave Barry once wrote “put a vacuum cleaner nozzle into their pocket and suck until all you get is lint.”
Add campaign consultants to the collection of economists and meteorologists—Seldom right, but they still get paid.
it was clear from day one this guy was in over his head.
I think it’s Great that he was such a fantastic surgeon.
but he seemed so slow. kind of odd.
not slow dumb, just slow.
appearances are deceiving I guess.
That’s why Iowa wants to be first; it’s a good business move.
people who are not afraid to get their hands dirty
and will work for free.
...while they have the Press to provide air cover.
Our equivalent is a bunch of patricians, who have Sopwith Camels armed with peashooters as their fighter planes.
...which, for them, are a great leap upwards from mounted knights riding flying ostriches where they have to keep hitting the button to make their wings flap.
It appears BEN was in it for the book deals, the good life, and padding the pockets of his consultants.
Sounds like the Carson campaign paid off very well for the consultants.
Where are Carson’s votes gonna go?
After reading FR since about 2003-2004, I finally created an account last year when another board I posted on finally shuttered up for good. Since Ted Cruz’s fiascoes in Iowa, I have repeatedly been called every name in the book by some Cruz supporters, including numerous accusations that I’m a paid Trump shill (who lives in Mumbai, LOL).
But those astute internet sleuths never bothered to check out my post history. The reason I finally signed up was so I could gripe about Carson being an obvious fraud (back then I was 50/50 between supporting Trump and Cruz).
I genuinely feel bad for all the people who were trying to be good, peaceful Christians and donated to Carson’s scam, seeing him as a more humble version of Cruz or Trump. What he has done here borders on criminal, in my opinion. He never had any intention of winning any delegates at all. The fact that people still supported him after December, when he SUSPENDED HIS CAMPAIGN TO GO ON A BOOK TOUR, is mind-boggling.
spread out, I think.
Like Bush’s votes did.
I thought they would all go to another rino.
but they didn’t. spread out among the remaining three leaders at the tine I expect the same with Carson.
If I needed a brain surgeon, I think I’d rather not have one that acts like he’s washing down coffee grounds with Red Bull.
Exactly right.
I like to say that Trump hijacked the GOP’s airplane, flew it all over the country using the media’s credit card to pay for the fuel, and the GOP elites are just now realizing they are being kicked out the door without parachutes. Even Mitt’s “Mayday” call won’t save them.
Many suspected that Carson was in the race for one purpose: cash in on the money machinery for himself and his cronies.
Some say that is the same money machinery that backed Cain in 2012.
Do you mean the Ben Carson whose top aide believes Louis Ferrakhan should be paid a salary by the government and says he shares the same goals as Alan Sharpton?
http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/17/top-carson-aide-wants-taxpayers-to-fund-farrakhan/
http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/04/15/ben-carson-al-sharpton-and-i-have-same-goal
The DC political class are money vampires. Trump scares them because he won’t do what they say
Sounds like Reagan bankrupting the USSR
LOL wisdom too late for me.
If there’s reincarnation I’ll know the secrets to success.
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