Posted on 04/18/2009 4:04:48 PM PDT by STARWISE
Obama for America spends nearly $9.5 million in the first three months of this year.
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If you glanced at the expense side of the report filed Wednesday night by President Obama's campaign committee, you might be excused for thinking there was a presidential election afoot.
Obama for America, the fundraising juggernaut that powered Obama's ascent to the presidency, spent nearly $9.5 million in the first three months of this year, including $684,000 on telemarketing and print and online advertising, $994,000 on event staging and $310,000 on payroll and taxes.
To be sure, some of the payments stem from bills accrued in early January — or even the end of last year — before Obama took the oath of office, and others come from normal shut-down costs. Plus the campaign committee is no longer raising money; it came into the year with $18.3 million in the bank and finished the first quarter with $10 million on hand.
Yet the report shows that Obama's campaign continued to be of use well after Election Day and suggests it still maintains some semblance of operational capacity.
Last month alone, it paid $74,000 in payroll, $23,000 for rent, $10,000 for polling and $6,400 for travel.
Other interesting payments during the first three months of the year, the period covered by Wednesday's report, included $688,000 in legal fees to the firm of Bob Bauer — the top lawyer for the campaign, the Democratic National Committee, the Obama political group Organizing for America, and the Obama family — and $6,400 to a firm founded by Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden.
The report also shows that Obama for America contributed $4 million to the DNC in a pair of contributions in February and March, and refunded $16,700 in contributions to individual donors.
At the end of last month, it was carrying $329,000 in debt, including $15,300 to the former firm of White House political guru David Axelrod.
reno cashier seems to be water company for Reno.
Hunter Biden being paid is interesting. He is a lobbyist and is also being sued in two lawsuits along with Joe Biden’s brother for hedge fund fraud.
But my mind wanders to pay to play once again. If Biden’s brother the AG helped out obama with a PITA problem, did obama promise Hunter funding and Joe Biden VP?
U.S. senator, Barack Obama sought more than $3.4 million in congressional earmarks, including $192,000 for a suburban Chicago university, for Hunter Biden’s clients.
Or does this have to do with the bank crisis?
Hunter Biden received consulting fees from MBNA Corp
Jan 16, 2009 ... MBNA owner Bank of America was today bailed out with another $20bn
Or does this have to do with Biden’s house deal with MBNA and Hunter’s lobbying efforts for obama’s crisis.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Bidens-House-Deal&id=1441521
This is a awfully small world.
PING to #52 for any thoughts.
What happened at Occidental since then?
The August 4th birth date most likely is bogus like his birth certificate.
Obama “misspeaks” all the time or does he? It’s habitual.
Jr has shown time and time again that he is not a student of history and dates are simply not important to him in the gand scheme of things. His former history teacher at Punahou mentioned him as a B- student but I suspect that B- was as an AA student!
I wonder if you obamnoids have read this one ... you were so quick to spout the talking points of ‘prove he’s spent so much working to prevent the release of his real birth certificate.’
Talk about an understatement!
I downloaded the entire annual report of 2008 expenditures. I’ll search it and let you know how much was spent from June to December
Prior to that one linked? Don’t think so.
So, the amount he’s paid to ALL attorneys
is unknown?
You said — I wonder if you obamnoids have read this one ... you were so quick to spout the talking points of ‘prove he’s spent so much working to prevent the release of his real birth certificate.’
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Well, you’re obviously not talking to me, if you’re referencing “obamnoids” — unless — *you* are one of those “Obama Derangement Syndrome” types — THEN you’re probably talking to me... LOL...
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SO THEN..., now that we’re past the niceties of the discussion...
You know..., this is the *first time* I’ve actually seen something “real” that someone has posted about this... That’s pretty amazing.
If I get out my calendar and do the calculations, I would fully well expect to *finally* have something “real” about Obama’s birth certificate by the time his next election is in progress. I say that only by seeing how long it takes to get “real documentation” on some things... here... LOL...
Oh..., by the way... how do those legal fees break down? I’m just wondering what parts of those fees go to what? That would be interesting to see, so I could tell how much Obama is spending on any of these “birther” issues...
Thought someone should ping you bots since this thread answers your talking points toss up. Even a dumb blonde needs a ping now and again. The responses from your talking points updates should be intertesting.
The Obot ping list from hell. *snicker* ;-)
LOL prolly true.
You know he hasn’t released anything from school because he was a frackin’ stoner dummy!
Dr. Orly’s new website is:
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/blog1/
No, not yet. I've got Obama for America's 2008 annual report of expenditures, all 1,547 pages worth. I'm going to do a search through it tomorrow.
ZERO has been inactive after 1995, I think.
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