Politico: Ron Paul money machine heats up (explains where the money goes)

[sailingaway]

also makes it clear why with less money he doesn't have ads on the air. Santa and Gingrich have less on hand, but Grinch raised more, and Santa is raising hand over fist, right now.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73096.html

The Texas congressman hauled in $4.48 million in January — about as much as GOP rival Rick Santorum, but behind fellow Republicans Mitt Romney ($6.5 million) and Newt Gingrich ($5.6 million), new federal campaign filings indicate.

Separately, a super PAC supporting Paul, called Endorse Liberty, on Monday reported raising $2.4 million and spending about $2.9 million during January.
For January, Paul’s campaign spent more than $5.23 million — about $850,000 more than it took in, his report filed late Monday indicated.
Of that amount, the greatest single expense proved to be television media, about $1.54 million, followed by postage and shipping ($563,400), campaign merchandize ($364,000), air travel ($305,800), political field consulting ($292,400) and telemarketing ($255,000), a review of Paul’s January campaign finance records show.

Lodging ($193,200), strategic political consulting ($193,00), polling ($172,200), salaries ($134,000), rental cars ($123,300) and website design and management (about $100,000).

Meals in January gobbled up about $64,400 of Paul’s campaign stash, although the grub was hardly gourmet: Standard fast food joints from McDonald’s and Burger Kind to the slightly less traditional Smash Burger of Ankeny, Iowa, and Zombie Burger of Des Moines, Iowa, pepper Paul’s report.

Paul’s staffers have a particular hunger for Papa John’s pizza, which in January made more than $2,100 off the campaign across eight states.


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[rp713]

kinda dont like that one person had to max out to pay for staffers pizza. but i'll chalk it up to a good job so far. i guess its cool.

 

[pauliticalfan]

Where can I see the detailed food bill report?

 

[sailingaway]

kinda dont like that one person had to max out to pay for staffers pizza. but i'll chalk it up to a good job so far. i guess its cool.

they have to eat, I'm sure it was a lot of staffers, in fact given the phone bankers in NH were saying they were getting sick of pizza, I suspect it was so people who were phone banking didn't have to leave for lunch and dinner.

 

[sailingaway]

Where can I see the detailed food bill report?

the FEC report will have it. Ron's reports get down to the single dollar purchases.

 

[smartguy911]

website design and management (about $100,000)

Makes no sense. Fine they have maybe 5 powerful severs and each one costing $1000 per month for banwidth, management etc. That's $5000. Design is one time deal so that was done last year and I am guessing around $10,000.

I get this feeling, campaign is being ripped off.

 

[alucard13mmfmj]

Makes no sense. Fine they have maybe 5 powerful severs and each one costing $1000 per month for banwidth, management etc. That's $5000. Design is one time deal so that was done last year and I am guessing around $10,000.

I get this feeling, campaign is being ripped off.

I concure... seems they are overpaying for what they have.

 

[pauliticalfan]

172k for polling also seems ridiculous, especially with so many public polls being released. Hell, Rick Santorum doesn't even have a pollster, and he's won four more states than us

 

[parocks]

they have to eat, I'm sure it was a lot of staffers, in fact given the phone bankers in NH were saying they were getting sick of pizza, I suspect it was so people who were phone banking didn't have to leave for lunch and dinner.

Giving the volunteers pizza is standard practice.

 

[alucard13mmfmj]

Giving the volunteers pizza is standard practice.

COSTCO pizza? huge, cheap, mediocre pizza. lol.

 

[angelatc]

the greatest single expense proved to be television media, about $1.54 million,

Thats a good thing. Needs to do more, and less polling.

 

[sailingaway]

Makes no sense. Fine they have maybe 5 powerful severs and each one costing $1000 per month for banwidth, management etc. That's $5000. Design is one time deal so that was done last year and I am guessing around $10,000.

I get this feeling, campaign is being ripped off.

I suspect that was the mega facebooks set up for delegates and the 'collectivist groups for Ron Paul' thing.

But I don't know how much web stuff should cost, at all.

 

[Mckarnin]

Makes no sense. Fine they have maybe 5 powerful severs and each one costing $1000 per month for banwidth, management etc. That's $5000. Design is one time deal so that was done last year and I am guessing around $10,000.

I get this feeling, campaign is being ripped off.

Well if it's the same guy who they had in 08' he's a swindler or at least a bit of a fast talker who makes deals that are much better for him than RP. I know this because he offered me "the same deal that I gave Ron Paul's Campaign" when I was trying to develop an educational non-profit in 08' . I don't know anything about how much a website should cost so I am not the best judge but hey, he has to have a website for those moneybombs and all the "Google Ron Paul" folks so...

 

[carterm]

dude we have to get him off mcdonalds if we want two terms

 

[Paul Or Nothing II]

dude we have to get him off mcdonalds if we want two terms

No worries! He has everything under control as usual!

 

[Philosophy_of_Politics]

The only thing they can do to stop us is deplete our funding.

We need to get more donations.

 

[NY-Dano]

kinda dont like that one person had to max out to pay for staffers pizza. but i'll chalk it up to a good job so far. i guess its cool.

I'm guessing it cost quite a bit to feed the hundreds of student volunteers who went to Iowa and NH in January.

 

[freshjiva]

I'm guessing the reason why website expenses are so high is because of the Phone from Home site. That itself uses advanced software that I'm sure costs a lot of money.

 

[sailingaway]

I'm guessing the reason why website expenses are so high is because of the Phone from Home site. That itself uses advanced software that I'm sure costs a lot of money.

that makes sense. I read an article that Santorum's billionaire's pac spent hundreds of thousands on his phone banking system.

 

[alucard13mmfmj]

No worries! He has everything under control as usual!

hey... i dont wan't to tell Ron what to do... but shouldn't he wear a helmet? just sayin. it is kinda dangerous to be bicycling without protective headgear and some cities or states would write citations for lack of it. i don't want him to be riding on a bike and he gets into a serious accident during his Presidential term >.>.