SarahPAC -- over $2.5 million raised in 2010 election cycle

[spanone]

"SarahPAC believes the Republican Party is at the threshold of an historic renaissance that will build a better future for all." According to OpenSecrets.org, based on FEC filings, Fox News

contributor and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's SarahPAC has raised $2,532,598 in the 2010 election cycle. SarahPAC has contributed $44,500 to federal candidates (89% to Republicans, 0% to

Democrats). SarahPAC has contributed to the Republican campaigns of Reps. Michele Bachmann (MN) and Roy Blunt (MO), and to Sens. John McCain (AZ) and Lindsey Graham (SC), among others.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201004160056

[Hawkeye-X]

1. I bet most of 2.5m are illegal contributions

from teabaggers who doesn't understand the law.

[spanone]

3. amazing, aint it? a fool & his money.

[Contrary1]

2. Was the other $2,488,098. spent on travel and clothes for the family?

Or maybe it was just "administrative costs".

[theothersnippywshrub]

4. What a sweet scam. Raise $3.4 million and contribute $130,000 to candidates and others.

I wonder what Shadow Carny Dude's salary is.

[tanyev]

5. No kidding. That's not even tithing.

[theothersnippywshrub]

7. The breakdown of expenditures shown at OpenSecrets.org is interesting.

"Miscellaneous Fundraising" expenses of $422,706 for example. Or various types of "Consultants" receiving more than $663,000.

[HipChick]

6. Gingrich's raised over $14 million in same 2010 cycle

[theothersnippywshrub]

8. Another sweet scam. Over $11 million in "Direct Mail/Telemarketing" expenses and almost

$2.5 million in "Salaries & Benefits."
http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527cmtedetail_expends.php?ein=205457079&cycle=2010