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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (13218)	8/13/2007 4:51:51 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224718

Hillary LIES to beat Obama at Fund-raising >Yes, the Fund-Raising Records Fell, Just Not as Far By MIKE McINTIRE Aug 13, 2007 For Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, it was a monumental achievement: Her campaign announced in April that she had raised $26 million in the first quarter of the year, more than any other presidential candidate. The tally was especially important because it nudged her past Senator Barack Obama, whose campaign reported a surprisingly strong $25.7 million, and allowed her to claim victory in the “money primary” that is widely viewed as an early test of endurance in the Democratic race for the presidential nomination. But like a certain home run record, Mrs. Clinton’s big numbers might require an asterisk. Her campaign has since had to subtract hundreds of thousands of dollars from its first-quarter total because of a variety of problems, including donors whose credit cards were mistakenly charged twice, contributions exceeding the legal limit and checks that bounced. As a result, her total was reduced to $25.6 million — dead even with Mr. Obama, whose first-quarter take also shrank, albeit to a lesser degree. And in one important measure, the amount collected from individuals, it now appears that Mr. Obama surpassed Mrs. Clinton. Mrs. Clinton’s overall total included $236,000 from political action committees, while Mr. Obama did not accept money from PACs. Second-quarter results released last month showed Mr. Obama convincingly outpaced Mrs. Clinton from April to June, confirming him as a fund-raising force. All the presidential campaigns have had erroneous or invalid donations. Mrs. Clinton has reported the most this year, with $540,000. Mitt Romney had $514,000, which as a percentage of his total exceeded Mrs. Clinton’s, although it never endangered his status as fund-raising leader among the Republicans. Among the other leading candidates, Mr. Obama had $114,000; Rudolph W. Giuliani and John McCain, both Republicans, reported $242,000 and $105,000, respectively; and John Edwards, a Democrat, had $104,000. While some questionable contributions are not unusual in big-money contests, a review of the first-quarter results reveals that in Mrs. Clinton’s case, they potentially had the effect of clinching her title as the all-around fund-raising leader. The Clinton campaign scoffed at any suggestion that it could have gamed the system to come out ahead (there is no evidence that it did), pointing out that there was no way to know much money was needed to surpass Mr. Obama in the closing days of the quarter. About $422,000 of the first-quarter contributions reported by Mrs. Clinton would later need to be refunded, reattributed to a donor’s spouse or simply erased because there were insufficient funds to cover them. Some of the “spousal reattributions” occurred because married donors failed to use a joint credit card or bank account to make joint contributions, putting the person whose account was used over the legal limit and requiring a bookkeeping maneuver to correct the problem. Elmar Vomfell, who owns a small business in Kentucky, agreed to make a $4,600 contribution, the legal maximum. When he checked later, he found that $9,200 had been charged to his card on March 31. The Clinton campaign issued him a $4,600 refund a month later — after both contributions had been counted in the first-quarter total.<