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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJeb Bush kept presidential campaign afloat with $250,000 personal loan
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeb-bush-kept-campaign-afloat-with-250000-personal-loan-election-2016/WASHINGTON -- Jeb Bush kept his struggling presidential campaign afloat with a $250,000 personal loan - barely enough to keep the campaign from plunging into debt.
New campaign finance documents show the former Florida governor raised about $1 million in February, which was to be his final month as a Republican candidate.
Documents show his campaign wrapped up with $13,127 more in cash than debts. He left the race Feb. 20 after a fourth-place finish in South Carolina.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's report shows he raised about $420,000 in February. The Republican suspended his campaign Feb. 9, after the New Hampshire primary. Christie's campaign ended with roughly $200,000 more in debts than available cash.
Other candidates - current and former - are due to file reports by midnight Sunday.
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Jeb Bush kept presidential campaign afloat with $250,000 personal loan (Original Post)
WhiteTara
Mar 2016
OP
In 2008 someone lent their campaign $12,000,000+. Nice to have money indeed. n/t
PoliticAverse
Mar 2016
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beac
(9,992 posts)1. Must be nice to have a QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS
lying around to throw at your vanity project.
WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)2. I wonder if mommy gave it to him. nt
beac
(9,992 posts)4. He IS her "fourth favorite son", after all.
And no surprise Christie is in debt. That's why he's allowed Trump to take him hostage. But will the Orange Aid come through in the end? I suspect not.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)5. In 2008 someone lent their campaign $12,000,000+. Nice to have money indeed. n/t
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)3. I wonder how many small businesses that extended credit
To make their signs, etc, will have to write off the debt. I hope they file the appropriate IRS forms so that jeb will have to claim those debt write-offs as income.
The signs were made for an entity called the "campaign" and if the debt is written off and the income charged to the "campaign", there is no income as it can be shown to have been "expended".
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yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)6. You would think he could afford to buy himself, a personality?