Sarah Palin's Political Action Committee, SarahPAC, has spent $418,000 this year. Not one dime of that has gone to support a single GOP candidate. Isn't that what a PAC is supposed to do?
A Political Action Committee (PAC) is an organized group whose purpose is to elect supported candidates and defeat their opponents. PACs will typically spend money to run ads, either positive ads for their chosen candidate or negative ads used to discredit their candidate's political opponent. The money spent by PACs is spent in many different ways to help or hinder politicians running for office.
How is Palin spending her PAC money?
SarahPAC spent $255,000 on fundraising and political consultants, $19,000 on the video Palin produced in attempt to discredit the portrayal of her in the HBO film "Game Change," and $4,500 to reserve space in Channelside Bay Mall in Tampa. In addition, the PAC also paid staff a total of $152,000 between January 1 and March 31, 2012. That figure includes $22,000 paid to someone named Rebecca Mansour whom Politico.com refers to as a "Palin Internet defender." Is an Internet defender someone who deletes negative comments from Palin's Facebook and Twitter accounts? Will the Internet defender do cyber battle with the author of this post?
And if that's not enough, the PAC also spent $6,000 at hotels and $1,000 at Disneyland Resort in Lake Buena Vista. How is a vacation in Florida helping the Republican party?
Will donors continue to support this nonsense or get wise and keep their money in their pockets?
Does this financial report sound like the PAC website, "...dedicated to building America's future by supporting fresh ideas and candidates who share our vision for reform and innovation?"
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Comments: 29
So donate on, idiots, Sarah and her staff of seven dwarfs need the money for the important business of vacationing with Micky and Minnie.
Talking heads don't usually produce videos of themselves (she made one for the Iowa caucus and this latest one in response to "Game Change").
She's just so full of herself and people are actually contributing to her delusion.
I wrote this post hoping that some who are donating to her will realize where their money is actually going.
There are connected PACs and unconnected PACs.
Connected PACs are tied to a company. For example, my company has a PAC. They raise money for local candidates and have state senators or congresspersons in to speak occasionally.
Unconnected PACs have a limit on how much money a company or individual can donate. They are not tied to any one particular campaign or candidate.
I did just find this article though that says unconnected PACs can use the money any way they wish. She could even use the money for her mortgage payment if she wanted.
She is a more shrewd businesswoman than most give her credit for.
You must understand, Winston is in the same tax bracket as Mitt Romney and therefore he pays so much money now, that he fears if the tax rates go up, he will be forced into dipping into one of his offshore bank accounts, which he would hate to do, in order to install a vehicle elevator in his multi story car garage, as Mitt is already in the process of doing.
You know, it's the Smith's keeping up with the Romney's, kind of pride thing.
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Your comments are appriciated by myself and I'm sure others. However, I would ask that you please stop promoting your personal web site at the end of every comment.
Thanks in advance.