The National Committee also appears to have assumed that the State Party was legally required to run the Presidential candidate chosen at the National Committee’s national convention. Apparently a telephone call was made to an official in the Arizona State government, asking whether such an obligation existed. The answer was in the affirmative. It was clearly not recognized that this…
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Chapter Sixteen August 2000—The Fundraising Crescendo August was the Campaign’s best single month, with close to $260,000 raised and almost $230,000 spent. Despite record one-month fundraising (and, in the end, strong cash-on-hand at the end of August), the Browne campaign continued to experience critical financial difficulties. In his article for Liberty magazine, Sturzenacker reports that on August 29 Willis emailed…
My usually reliable sources indicate another anomaly relating to the National Convention, this time involving the Convention Banquet. By highly reliable report the Convention Committee had intended to use Mark Tuniewicz and at least one other person as the banquet fundraisers: The people who gave the fundraising speech, worked the crowd, and incited giving money. By the same highly reliable…
And the volunteers? There are strong reasons to suppose that the claimed volunteers were not what they sounded like, though it may well be that there was some definition of ‘volunteer’ under which that number of volunteers were out there: 1) The author has been in close contact with Richard Watras, Jr., chair of the Massachusetts Browne volunteer group. Mr.…
Excerpted from my book Funding Liberty, for sale from Third Millennium, 3mpub.com May, Continued. In total, during May the associates of the campaign received more than $30,000, while firms connected with associates received almost $12,600, for a total of 37% of campaign spending of $116,182. For the month, the campaign received more than $94,000, spending down its cash on hand…
Over the month, associates of the campaign received: Jim Babka $2,700 Erich Covey $372 Robert DeVoil $5,532 Debra Greeson $2,618 Thomas Peary (travel) $245 Stuart Reges $1,000 Steve Willis $2,965 Perry Willis $2,500 Stephanie Yanik $1,500 TOTAL: $19,187 Robert Brunner and Jennifer Willis apparently received no pay in April. Between them, Robert DeVoil and Stuart Reges received $6532, roughly what…
Hornberger also sent a letter to the FEC. The letter included the key phrase that the letter was not a complaint. As released to the public, it was also not notarized. The FEC has extremely specific rules about what it may act on as a complaint (You can find them for yourself at www.fec.gov.). Under FEC regulations, Hornberger’s letter was…
As written in the early 2000s. To the author, the FEC responses appear to be pro forma assurances to the public that if a person broke Federal Election Campaign Laws, that person would potentially be subject to legal action. From the broad wording used by their spokesman, it is not clear that there was a specific intent by the FEC…
Chapter Thirteen Refusing to File March 2000 In March, campaign income plummeted from February’s $118,500 to less than $75,000. Despite a further loan from the candidate, the Browne campaign was very nearly broke. Only $6302 was on hand at the month’s end. The Browne Campaign responded with a new fundraising gimmick, a prospective lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission. I…
February 2000 Spending followed much the same lines as January. Spending on the campaign’s associates rose to $32,083, but spending on their firms fell to $5176. Other major expense lines came to $46,484, with total spending of $115,895. February saw the addition of another associate, Robert Brunner, with expenses for travel, supply, and salary. Spending for people associated with the…