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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChristine O’Donnell used super pac to buy copies of her own book
She may, famously, not be a witch, but heres a bit of money magic from former Delaware Republican Senate candidate and recent Mitt Romney endorser Christine ODonnell: her political campaign gave $142,000 to her super PAC, which proceeded to buy copies of her book.
Federal Election Commission reports filed by her campaign and super PAC this week show that the money her campaign gave to her super PAC represents just under 62 percent of the $229,985 the PAC took in during 2011. $19,912.30 of that money went towards an August 20th purchase labeled PAC Fundraising Non-Residual Books from a book shop in Philadelphia.
ODonnells book, Troublemaker, had a list price of $25.99. If the books were purchased at that price, the campaign would have gotten around 766 copies. Its unclear how all those copies were used for fundraising purposes since ODonnell only received contributions from 16 individuals in the second half of the year. If all of them received a copy, she would have 750 copies of the book on hand.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/christine_odonnell_campaign_gave_to_christine_odonnells_super_pac_which_bought_christine_odonnells_book.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
Suich
(10,642 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,373 posts)richmwill
(1,326 posts)Amazon has New copies listed from their third-party sellers for as low as $2.55 a pop. Again- NEW, not used lol.
RandySF
(59,079 posts)Her campaign organization transferred donor cash to her super pac which then purchased her book. She's using campaign funds to enrich herself.
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)so they can have a bestseller.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Who else would buy them. LOL!
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,151 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Odonnell's was one. The other was Sarah Palin's going rouge. Rogue. Whatever.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Sounds like she could well be violating campaign finance laws. It seems to be her livelihood to run for office.
Johonny
(20,872 posts)I can't see how any honest hard working fiscal conservative keeps giving these people $$.