Help Me Understand the Christine O’Donnell FEC Report. It’s Palinicious.
Christine O’Donnell’s first quarter FEC report has finally been released, and she is without a doubt the second most successful Republican fundraiser in the state of Delaware, so far. But that ain’t saying much. And yeah, I don’t count that Glenn Urquarhthowthehelldoyouspellhisname guy either. Writing a check to yourself is not fundraising.
So in looking at the report, the figures listed on the summary page on the itemized individual contributions have to be wrong, since it says she raised $50,000, but when you click through to see the itemized list of contributors, it only adds up to $18,400. And when you add in the $3,588 of unitemized individual contributions (I wonder what evil people those dollars are from), you get a total haul of $21,988. The summary says she brought in candidate and committee donations totaling $1770, but that number is not reflected in the total figure, so let’s leave it out for now.
Next, while the space for listing loans and transfers is blank, showing zeros across the board, the Report then lists her Total Receipts (which is contributions plus loans and transfers) as 55,358. Ok. So maybe that individual contribution figure of $50,000 was not incorrect and she just did not properly list all of her contributors, so I went ahead and added back in the $31,600 ($50,000 – $18,400 = $31,600) and the candidate and committee donations figure fo $1,770, and tah dah, we do reach the total receipts figure of $55,358.
So for some reason O’Donnell is hiding the names of contributors whose donations total $35,188 (31,600 + the unitemized individual contributions of $3,588).
Now, in the first quarter, O’Donnell spent $35,619, giving her a cash on hand balance of $19,899 (although if you do actual math, $55,358 – $35,619 = $19,739. But what’s $160 exactly among friends?
But that cash on hand figure is misleading, since the O’Donnell has $23,776 in debts owed, but I assume that she is paying that debt back in installments, and on time of course.
So who are the mystery contributors who donated $31,000?
And the identified contributors are equally interesting. Christine identified a grand total of 15 people. Only 5 of those 15 people reside in Delaware. 4 of the 15 come from Arlington, VA (which probably means the individuals are RNC types or Republican lobbyists). 4 of the 15 reside in Texas, and 2 of those 4 have given amounts that exceed the $2400 limit. Indeed, one individual from Houston, Texas gave $5000.
I can’t believe she’s still around.her and her ilk scare me for what they could inspire some nuttbag to do.
And she’s campaigning on balancing the budget. Bwahhhhh!
I’m glad you took this on because I started trying to do quick math when I first got it and quickly got confused.
Sweet Chrissie Gotta love her :). Is there anything on there about contributions in kind? Probably not, but it would be nice if somebody would give her a CLUE!
In-kind contributions – like someone paying her rent?
Chari Hust of Houston is on the Board of Directors of CatholicYouthMinistries.com, which might explain her donation. And St. Bodie Girl, the beer that made, well, it didn’t make any place famous, gave her a donation.
Don’t poke the magic unicorn!
Yeah, UI, I look at the numbers and they didn’t make sense to me at all, so I had to break out the calculator.
Republickin David will figure it out for us.
She appears to be getting $$’s from some prominent R lobbyists. Stacy Hughes is listed as a partner with the Nickles Group, a lobbying shop run by former Senator Don Nickles (R-Oklahoma):
http://www.nicklesgroup.com/who_we_are.php
Eric Ueland is a consultant with the Duberstein Group, a corporate lobby shop headed up by former Reagan Chief of Staff Kenneth Duberstein. Ueland was formerly Chief of Staff to Sen. Bill Frist when Frist was Senate Majority Leader. Here’s a profile from the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58189-2005Feb27.html
Interesting…
If O’Donnell and her ilk scare you consider that the Republicans are scouring the country for those like her: pretty, far right and a little bit of Bachmann dizzy. If history teach’s us anything it’s that Anyone can be elected(and even re-elected) to Congress.
Stacy Hughes and Eric Ueland contributed in the first quarter of 2009, my guess would be to offset her 2008 debts since there wasn’t a Senate race at that point (not one candidate was in the race in February and March of 2009).
I don’t see any 2010 contributions at all, or is there a page I’m missing?
Some of her take goes to the general election as well.
Her contribution list reminds me of KWS’ list of all out of state donors.
Here is the Down Low, she filed in 2006 with 5 minutes to spare and the check was from out of state in the wrong amount signed by someone else, duh?
The state GOP was so happy to get someone to suck conservative votes away to Protect Jan Ting they let her slide. Maybe the extra money came from her pole dancing on the side?
The GOP created her and boosted her in 2008 , now she won’t go away.