Posted on 03/16/2011 11:01:58 AM PDT by Justaham
Rep. Corrine Brown, Florida Democrat, has almost no money in her campaign war chest.
Now it turns out she owes money too, according to a lawsuit filed by a major Democratic fundraising firm to force Brown to pay $44,495 in unpaid bills.
Berger Hirschberg Strategies a big player in Democratic money circles that has done fundraising for several presidential campaigns filed suit Jan. 10 in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to force Brown and her chief of staff, Ronnie Simmons, to pay up.
Brown stopped paying the firm, which raised over half a million dollars for her campaign, in July, but didnt effectively terminate the contract until the end of September.
Mysteriously, Brown claimed in reports to the Federal Election Comission (FEC) she did pay the firm $15,000 in July even while admitting in court filings her campaign didnt pay Berger Hirschberg that month.
Thats the interesting question, said Marty Lobel, Berger Hirschbergs lawyer, where did all the money go?
A story Monday in the Florida Times-Union highlighted that Brown has almost no campaign cash. According to the article, Browns political war chest puts her in the lowest three percent of House lawmakers, and that includes freshman Reps. who are political neophytes.
The Times-Union article quoted Daniel Smith, director of the University of Floridas Political Campaigning Program saying, Its shocking. Its shockingly low.
In spite of Browns financial woes, she hired a high-priced lawyer to defend her from the Berger Hirshberg lawsuit. One legal source said, Fred Cooke, Browns lawyer, is one of the best connected African American lawyers in town, and doesnt come cheap.
Neither Cooke nor Brown were available for comment.
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Jeeezzzzzzz....................
If they can legally use campaign contributions to pay fund-raisers fees why wouldn’t the fund raiser deduct their share as the money came in? They raised a half million and are waiting for $45K? Something isn’t right.
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