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.
Ahhh... I do see what you’re saying...
Interesting though that they are only disclosing what he has paid to that one firm. IIRC he has several on retainer currently fighting these cases, doesn’t he? I wonder if he’s paying for those lawyers out of his own pocket? Doesn’t seem likely, does it?
You’re definitely correct that there isn’t enough solid information here to extrapolate a responsible figure. My apologies for that.
Eight down and ten to go. Keep the lawsuits up and break them.
Same here — I guess you also got all those “send $5.00 now” emails during the campaign as well as I, huh? As if we couldn’t figure out WHY they wanted people to send these tiny amounts over and over again...
Obama’s trolls here on FR should take note — they have NO IDEA how many of their email list ‘supporters’ are NOT supporters in any sense of the word! LOL
It could also mean something else- that he is arrogant and doesnt like authority, and so will do whatever he can to fight the easy way out. My bro is like that- signed a settlement agreement after dad’s death to pay me share business with other bro, pay dad’s debts, leave mom’s money alone and leave Executor alone...Yet he still fights WITH A LWAYER to this day, using up money from our family business when sales are down perhaps 50%, in a co that has made money forever... Some people are like dry drunks (I know cause I am one sometimes)- not willing to give up cause of pride or spite or arrogance. Obama just may be a sick individual, if that’s any comfort. :(
No problem.
I do think Bauer is THE legal enforcer.
Hell, his current plans reflects those policies :)
Sometimes drunk, or sometimes dry, lol?
The dissolute life is greatly overrated, isn't it? Learned my lesson after a decade of being in bars every evening, seven days a week.
“How much complicity is there in this cover-up?”
Put on my tinfoil hat here: The elite globalist want Obama, he is their next stooge in line, and nothing will stop them.
Especially now that we KNOW Obama wasn't smart enough or powerful enough to have gotten to the White House without a lot of “outside - behind the curtain” help.....
There are folks pulling his strings that we should be very concerned about....
He was pushed forward as the “representative” of forces who couldn't have won the race without uniting the sub culture minorities and self defined “elites” - including Gays, Leftists, self loathing Jews, mind numbed academia, welfare broodmares and their bastards.. They NEEDED a “Barack Hussein Obama”...
I've still not seen a believable explanation of where all those “Internet contributions” really came from.....
Looks like Bill Ayers.
Well, what do you know? Quite a lot of money for a $12 birth certificate.
There is a picture that would tell you why at one glance.
Unfortunately, I cannot find it. Justice, are you the one with the pic of BO and SCOTUS?
In one way or another they either look him or act like him. Either way we’re screwed. It gets worse every freakin day!
for later reading
“Uhm, who do you think is in court? Maybe lawyers? Do you think they showed up because they had nothing better to do? In the run up to the elections, who filed to have the cases dismissed? Hang, on, I'll try and do your work for you and Google something..........
No, a lot of references to thirteen cases filed and unsupported reports of $800,000, but no original links or even names of the lawyers or firms.
I'll bookmark this for later because it is interesting. Thirteen cases with thirteen lawyers filing papers and responses. That probably IS a lot of money. If I do find out it has been hundreds of thousands of dollars and I have to do all the work for you, will you give a donation to Free Republic? Say $25 the admin moderator can verify?
Seems reasonable.”
Jim ducked and dodged and never accepted the challenge, or at least he never replied to third time it was repeated. I guess I can't hold him to anything as I didn't have to do the research. I still am a week away from tracking all the cases.
Hey, Jim, now you can say you read about it.
I’ve still not seen a believable explanation of where all those “Internet contributions” really came from...
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And we never will.
All the defaults were turned off that verify the cards... purposely. And the FEC is ill-equipped with the latest knowledge or technology that O’s group had .. and he specifically hired them for that expertise, IMO.
Count on every Muslim and Arab country, America haters and jihadist sympathizers at the minimum ... then you have the “change” addicts here and worldwide.
If he’s truly still soliciting for money, it’s apparently is still flowing into his coffers ............ sickeningly. The FEC needs to shape up and fast.
bump
IIRC, this little meet and greet took place prior to the inauguration and was an unprecedented event. Also, highly improper considering cases were due to come up before SCOTUS regarding his eligibility.
Obama and Biden Visit Supreme Court
By Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 15, 2009; Page A04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/14/AR2009011403451.html
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