Minuteman Money

The national debate over immigration policy has helped increase the coffers of the Minuteman PAC, the political arm of the Minuteman Movement. Using a national direct mail campaign, the PAC has raised $558,000 during the first six months of this year, according to a newly-filed report with the Federal Election...

 

By | July 11, 2007; 03:40 PM ET | Comments (3)

Giving in Their Golden Years

(Seth Hamblin -- The Washington Post) The presidential candidates have scored large sums of campaign funds from retirees this year, but none more than former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who took in $1.7 million in the first-quarter, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics. Retirees also...

 

By | June 7, 2007; 06:30 PM ET | Comments (1)

Bob Ney's Office Equipment Sale

When former Rep. Bob Ney, the Ohio Republican who pleaded guilty to corruption charges last fall, cleaned out his campaign office, he didn't leave much behind. A report filed on May 30 with the Federal Election Commission shows that Ney's campaign made $590 on the sale of office equipment to...

 

By | May 31, 2007; 11:21 AM ET | Comments (0)

Richardson's New Mexico Cash Boom

On a presidential candidate's list of lucrative donor destinations, New Mexico barely rates a mention (its electoral competitiveness is another story). During the entire 2004 election, New Mexican donors combined to give just more than $3 million to the presidential candidates. But now that Bill Richardson, the state's governor, is...

 

By | May 7, 2007; 06:30 PM ET | Comments (4)

Baucus & Rangel: A Joint Fundraising Opportunity

One's a congressman from Harlem. The other's a senator from Montana. But as anyone who cares about tax policy knows, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., have a large say as the respective chairmen of the House Ways & Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. Now...

 

By | April 26, 2007; 03:54 PM ET | Comments (0)

Democratic Donor Cities: Spreading the Wealth

When Democratic and Republican presidential candidates go out to raise money, they have a circuit of cities that provide a stable supply of donors. A look at the recently-released first quarter filings shows that 17 cities provided money for the seven major candidates listed in the Post's campaign finance database,...

 

By | April 23, 2007; 04:00 PM ET | Comments (0)

Presidential Campaign Web Spending

Now that the presidential candidates' first-quarter reports are on the Web, let's look at how much the top fundraisers spent on their Web operations. Far and away the biggest Web spender is former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who has paid out at least $618,298 on "Web services" for his campaign....

 

By | April 16, 2007; 12:36 PM ET | Comments (0)

Moving Money

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., did it, as did her fellow presidential candidates Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., Rudy Giuliani, R-N.Y., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Sen Sam Brownback, R-Kan., Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. They all transferred money from previously existing federal campaign accounts...

 

By | April 15, 2007; 09:11 PM ET | Comments (0)

Joint Fundraising Redefined

"Joint fundraising committees" are normally created by national parties to collect money for several candidates at once. The candidates are often from the same state. Funds collected by the joint committee are distributed among the candidates and the party. But Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., has turned the practice on its...

 

By | April 12, 2007; 06:00 AM ET | Comments (3)

Castle Picks Up the Pace

Republican Michael Castle, Delaware's lone representative in the House and a Democratic target in 2008, doesn't appear to be taking the challenge lightly. Castle's campaign filed its first-quarter report on Tuesday, showing $1.2 million in cash on hand. What's interesting is that Castle raised three times what he did in...

 

By | April 11, 2007; 07:30 AM ET | Comments (0)