"How Sarah PAC, Rick Santorum And Others May Be Duping Conservative Donors"

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How Sarah PAC, Rick Santorum And Others May Be Duping Conservative Donors

by Manny Schewitz at Forward Progressive

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/how-sarah-pac-rick-santorum-and-others-may-be-duping-conservative-donors/

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The total expenses for fundraising came out to over one million dollars versus a little over 2 million received. In comparison, Freedomworks received about 50% more in contributions than Sarah PAC did but spent about a quarter of what she did in fundraising expenses at $253,300. To put this in ratios, Sarah PAC brought in $3 for every $1 spent in fundraising versus Freedomworks which brought in about $12 for every $1 spent.

Now check this out – former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum’s super PAC “Patriot Voices” took in $1,362,995, but only donated $13,094 to candidates. Again, where’s the rest of that money going?

Or how about former U.S. Congressman Allen West’s “Guardian Fund,” which took in $4,853,138 and donated all of $20,000 to candidates? Over $3.1 million out of $3.4 million dollars in expenses were spent on fundraising?

How can organizations take in so much money in donations, have such high expenses and contribute so little money to candidates? Well, we don’t know for sure without looking directly at their books and the vendors that took the money – but there’s a good possible answer which makes a lot of sense to me.

What’s the one thing Allen West, Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum have in common? All three of them are former elected officials with name recognition who are eager to keep up their presence online and on TV. Fundraising which puts your name out there online, over the phone or on TV and running a super PAC does that – without you having to spend a penny of your own money. In other words, free advertising which keeps their brand relevant in conservative media, which in turn keeps donations flowing in from the people who lap up all the cliché talking points every time they write a book or show up on a Fox evening TV show.

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[Skittles]

1. I'm trying to imagine the kind of people who give money to Palin and Santorum

that right there is some f***ed up shit

[brewens]

2. Baggers are the most crotchety about charities they think don't give all the

money to the cause they supposedly raise money for. Try and explain the The United Way, Red Cross and others employ full-time people and have to spend a lot of the money and they won't hear of it. I can't say I blame them when they have heard of large CEO salaries that seem a little heftly to say the least.

They don't ask those question of their right-wing heroes though. Didn't Freedomworks end up giving Dick Armey something like seven million bucks to go away? Just WTF do teabaggers think he did to earn all that?

[CaptainTruth]

3. Making money off of ignorant people ...

... it's the Republican way.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Have Rellies who are still cutting checks to these fools.

Duh!!! These assholes are GRIFTERS,and the Rellies don't have a clue. We all grew up living day to day and just hanging on.

[Fred Sanders]

5. The fundraising expenses inevitably are contracts with friends and relatives who charge inflated

prices to reprint brochures or send emails to an already available email list.....it is all modelled after the grifter mega churches, the exact same cult of personality turned into a cash cow, preying on these bleeting sheeple that seek comfort for their religious and Fox News driven fears in being told comfortable lies, they are soothed by symbolic comrades in outrage in a hermetically sealed alternate reality.

In other words, useful idiots.

[Ikonoklast]

8. Yep. Corporations set up, 'consultants' hired, legal fees paid...all circling back into the pockets

of the grifters who basically hire every family member and friend.

Who wants to bet against every Palin family member getting a salary and all living expenses paid by her pac?

[Fred Sanders]

11. Of course if it all legal, the lobbyists made sure of that...the system is rigged, my friend, it is

rigged and it is not Obama who can fix it, it is the 60% of fools who do not vote who seem still not to be aware they are in a rigged game.

When Obama says "are you all fired up" to vote, it is these fools he tries to fire up, but how is that his job? Who is going to let them know about The Game when most folks prefer comfortable lies to the disturbing truth?

Minimum working wages issues, political corruption, unfair rules, crony favouritism, selfish waste of donated money, these things fire up the folks all over the world as much as potholes do in America.

The good folks need to be outraged, the thing is the mass media prevents the information from going out to feed the outrage....social media has to pick up the lack.

[Ikonoklast]

13. If I had no moral scruples whatsoever I would shill for right-wing causes.

I figure it would keep another right wing nutjob from doing any harm with that money, and I would only use it for good.

A 42' Searay is my definition of 'good'.

Look at all the failed politicians, bloggers, pundits, talking heads and hangers-on all scrabbling for that easy money given by the easily fooled and from billionaires using the obfuscators to do their bidding.


Those that don't vote but still bitch about things need to be slapped.

[dem in texas]

6. This is why these people come out the woodwork to run for president or some other office.

They get on Fox News, maybe in a TV debate, make outrageous statements, anything to keep their brand alive. It's a racket, and they are making a good living running these rackets. Nothing you can do about it, as long as people keep donating money to them.

This is nothing new, years ago back in the 80's I worked as a software designer and was called into a production and printing company to design software to help them sort their mailing pieces that they were preparing for clients.

They were preparing mailings to solicit donations for right wing groups, only at that time is was all about Iran and hostages over there.

[gilpo]

7. Conservative grifting is a cottage industry

Many have made and continue to make a damn good living conning cons.

[Johnyawl]

9. This is actually a good thing...

...millions of dollars being collected from conservative donors going to line the pockets of a handful of grifters. Those millions could have been given directly to candidates or even the RNC. West, Palin and Santorum are all inadvertently working for us, keeping money out of the hands of conservative candidates.

It's like stealing money from the church's offering basket, and I wish those thieves continued success.

[bullwinkle428]

10. Grifters gonna grift.

K&R.

[edhopper]

12. May be?

May be? Is there a question about this?

Let me fix the headline:

"How Sarah PAC, Rick Santorum And Others ARE Duping Conservative Donors"