Why is Hillary trying to raise $2.2 in 2 days if she's been raising $1 million a day anyway?

[jenmito]

Her surrogates keep saying she's been raising $1 million a day during the month of Feb. but she has a fundraising drive on her website trying to raise $2.2 million in 2 days to keep up with Obama. Are they lying NOW or were they lying THEN?

[DJ13]

1. Maybe Penn needs another paycheck?

:shrug:

[jenmito]

5. Yeah. He IS expensive!

:hi:

[TexasObserver]

2. She only raised $15 mil in January, and she's been lying since about February.

She's trying to raise enough money to pay herself back the $5 million plus interest before she has to drop out.

[quakerboy]

6. nermind

stupid question

[ericgtr]

7. At 1.26% interest no less

A big thanks to her campaign supporters for putting that directly into her pocket. At least she won't be leaving this race empty handed.

[TexasObserver]

14. She has over $40 mil personally, and refuses to give a dime of it to her campaign

That's cheap. That's putting herself first, and dumping on all those small contributors.

[jenmito]

9. Hmmm. Seems kind of dishonest.

Who woulda thunk it?

[TexasObserver]

20. If she had raised $1 mil per day in February, she'd have $22 mil to spend, and we'd see the ads.

She's flat out lying, just like the January reports proved she lied about January.

She ended January spending $29 million.

She raised only $15 million in January.

She loaned the campaign $5 million in January.

So what about the short fall of $9 million?

Well, she owed $7.6 million of it, leaving $1.4 mil, which she had as cash on hand.

She entered February owing $7.6 million campaign debt, not counting the $5 mil the campaign owes her.

That means she started February $12.6 mil in the hole and broke.

Her major contributors are maxed out for the primary, and cannot give her any more money.

She's trying to tap the smaller contributors for more money, but if she gets 100,000 to send $100 each, that's still only $10 million, and that only pays current expenses, with little money for major media. That's why she's pimping the debates and starting fights to get media.

She knows her February reports won't come out until after March 4th, and she knows she'll be out by then, so right now, she's playing to raise enough to pay herself back. Wait until you see how many vendors her campaigns stiffs and leaves holding the bag. She won't pay them, because that would mean using a few million of her $50 million, and that ain't gonna happen.

[jenmito]

22. Good post...

Thanks for the thoughtful post. I'm sure you're right! :hi:

[TexasObserver]

23. I pulled the numbers from her January reports.

The 100,000 contributors at $100 each is math = $10,000,000.

In January, she was presumed the winner. In February, she lost that presumption. People don't usually reach into their pockets to fund a campaign they know is going down.

She's going out badly, and she's going to stiff everyone from consultants, to staffers, to mom and pop vendors from all over the country who are sitting on top of $1000 to $10,000 unpaid invoices. She will pay herself first, and that ought to be criminal, but it's not. If you or I did that to a business and put it in bankruptcy, we would be looking at federal criminal charges for fraud.

[Zhade]

27. So not only is she trying to cheat (FL/MI), she's using her campaign funds to enrich herself.

What a fucking scumbag move!

[TexasObserver]

29. They have both become accustomed to living high on the hog, wallowing in newfound wealth, and ...

By all reports, she and Bill have made somewhere between $50 and $75 million since 2001, and that excludes the tens of millions secret donors have given to fund Bill's library.

We know he helped a billionaire cut an oil deal with a dictator recently, and got a $31 million "contribution" to the library because of it.

They have both become accustomed to living high on the hog, wallowing in newfound wealth, and never taking their snouts out of the special interest feeding trough.

[anigbrowl]

3. Very lawyerly thing to do...don't ask a question unless you already know the answer

Mind you, I'm sure Obama's campaign took a lon look at the donation figures before deciding to publicize their 'one million people' thing.

[jenmito]

13. Obama's managed his campaign brilliantly the entire time. He's always coming up with

different ways to raise money/get more contributers. Hillary's the one whose fundraising claims don't match with what her website is saying.

[anigbrowl]

24. That's very true.

I particularly liked their point that hillary's new friends at the 'American Leadership Project' 527 (yeah, like you'll ever do anything to promote american leadership that isn't personified in HRC) wanted 100 people to doante 100,000...going for the 'one million owners of this campaign' was a great idea.

[kennetha]

4. Because Obama is raising and spending money

like crazy. He outspent her five to one on TV in Wisconsin.

[PresidentObama]

8. Are you distorting NOW or are you distorting THEN?

[pauldg0]

10. I don't get this guy...........

I used to like him.

[jenmito]

15. I'm not distorting anything unless you can point it out. n/t

[DemBones DemBones]

11. Uh, candidates often like to have special fundraising periods

to encourage more people to contribute. Nothing unusual about it.

[PresidentObama]

12. Clinton's a politician running for President? NOO!! And she wants to raise money?

Must mean she's lying...

Damn Clinton.

:sarcasm:

[jenmito]

17. So she's misleading her contributors? n/t

[BlackVelvet04]

16. If you aren't donating to her don't worry about it. n/t

[jenmito]

18. I can "worry" about whatever I want.

[BlackVelvet04]

19. Well hope it keeps you up at night. n/t

[jenmito]

21. I'm not worrying. That's why I put it in quotes.

[billyoc]

25. I'm not worried because I pay my bills. I will make sure the voters in NY

know that their junior Senator doesn't pay hers when she runs for reelection.

[Zhade]

26. When isn't she speaking out of both sides of her mouth?

All those supporters to fleece...

Poor suckers.

[rodeodance]

28. You whin when she is broke and you whin when she want to make $. Get a grip!

[jenmito]

30. I don't EVER "whin." n/t