Posted on 02/20/2018 6:10:57 PM PST by Liberty7732
The Republican National Committee revealed Tuesday that it raised $12.4 million in January 2018 — up from $11.1 million in December 2017.
"As we head into the 2018 midterm elections, the Republican Party continues to break fundraising records," RNC chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said in a statement. "We are working hand-in-hand with Republicans in Congress and President Trump to enact a pro-growth agenda on behalf of the American people. In doing so, we will continue to invest in our ground game, data operations, technology, and Party infrastructure to win elections in 2018 and beyond."
The RNC also said it raised $144.9 million overall in the 2017-2018 cycle and has a total of $40.7 million cash on hand. The group is saddled with zero debt
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“I’d rather stick needles in my eyes” Jack Nicholson
They don’t seem to know what to do with it.
That’s for sure.
How about some counter propaganda campaigns?!
And yet every week, we are losing at least 1 election. How about spending some of that cash on all elections. Our 1000 seat wins over the last 8 years is dwindling fast.
Those elections don’t cost a lot of money and provide strength to the base that the GOP will need in ‘18 for the larger races, and the BIG race in 2020.
I remember being absolutely furious listening to Haley Barbour, then RNC Chairman, when he appeared on Rush Limbaugh’s show and spoke of holding onto the $$$ because, after all, Bill Clinton was so vulnerable. This was @ Jan. 4. 1996. Clinton was doing everything under the radar. Had the GOP forked over some money earlier that year we might have been spared Clinton’s 2nd term. But these experts in DC know everything.
Yes frustrating back in 1996. I just cannot believe how many of these state elections we are losing in red states. I don’t care for excuse but just stop the bleeding. Some are saying well it was blue before.....who gives a rats ass. Seriously it seems some are accepting this as not a big deal.
I cant help but get the feeling that the GOP establishment is intentional trying to lose its majority so that Trump we be impeached and removed by a Dem. Congress.
Why would anyone contribute to The Stupid Party? Look at the past presidents of the RNC: Steele and Rinsed Penis. Real winners, eh? Those two are a waste of oxygen.
Haley Barbour and the RNC were doing what political parties are supposed to do: follow the law. Under the law at the time, with fundraising highly constrained, it was necessary to husband resources and build a warchest for the fall campaign. The problem, as we discovered in retrospect, is that the Democrats were massively violating the law, with Clinton and the DNC running a presidential-intensity campaign from April, 1995 forward with illegally raised and illegally spent soft dollars. It took some time, however, for this to become clear from lagging FEC reports. The 1996 Clinton reelect was a criminal operation. It succeeded because the three Democratic members of the FEC, the Janet Reno Justice Department, the Democrats in Congress and most of the press closed ranks to mislead the public and subvert legal due process.
I have no memory of any law or FEC regs in 1996 (or ever) constraining when national parties could spend their resources. I’d be interested in knowing what law(s) or reg(s) you are referring to.
Soft dollars were monies from individuals in excess of the individual contribution limits, as well as dollars from corporate sources. These funds could not be used for direct electioneering purposes but could be used for issue advocacy, party building and GOTV purposes. The rules governing all this were very complex.
In addition, there were elaborate rules governing coordinated, shared, and joint expenditures by candidate as opposed to various party committees. These included limits on the permissible mixing of hard and soft dollars in various kinds of communications.
The Clinton-Gore campaign went on the air in March 1995 with an initial major ad buy. It then went up for the duration in April, 1995, with an ad campaign at full intensity that continued through November, 1996. This was mostly paid for by the DNC, under the direction of the Clinton-Gore campaign, and was funded mostly by soft dollars, which was patently illegal. These should have been hard dollar expenditures. But the DNC, like the RNC, did not have nearly enough hard dollars to spend that such a rate on television advertising a year and a half before a presidential election. So the Democrats cheated.
Most of the public never understood this. Much of the press was too incompetent to understand it, and most of those who did understand it were Democrat partisans who knowingly ignored the scandal. There were, of course, honest reporters as well, and the conservative media was in full outrage, but the MSM largely ignored the issue, and misreported it when it occasionally intruded.
But the distinction was extremely important. Both parties were capable of raising very large soft dollar sums in big chunks from wealthy donors, corporations, and various politically involved groups. Hard dollars, being given in smaller amounts by large numbers of individual donors, were much harder to raise.
Haley Barbour and the RNC could have matched the DNC's 1995 and early 1996 ad buys dollar for dollar had the RNC been willing to violate the law and use soft dollars for this purpose. But the post-Watergate generation of Republicans had it deeply ingrained in their DNA that Republicans follow the law or go to jail. The Democrats in 1995-96 flagrantly and intentionally violated the law. The three Democratic commissioners on the FEC linked arms and refused to take action. Janet Reno, the most corrupt attorney general in U.S. history, refused to take action, and indeed was a chief collaborator in massive obstruction of justice in this and other Clinton-related matters. The Democrats in Congress spent their time generating smokescreens. And the media mostly cheered the Democrats on, not getting seriously interested in a Clinton scandal until Monica Lewinksy made it a sex story.
I've always believed that this was the point at which the mainstream media forfeited any residual credibility; the media from that time forward have been clearly eager to lie systematically and continually to cover up Democrat criminality.
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