GOP presidential candidates tally up second-quarter fundraising
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 2nd, 2011 4:35 am by HL
GOP presidential candidates tally up second-quarter fundraising
Republican presidential candidates are giving out the first hints of their second-quarter fundraising, with total tallies lower than they were in the presidential contest four years ago.
Officials with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s campaign said Friday that he raised less than $20 million.
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty’s campaign said he raised $4.2 million in the recent quarter. Texas Rep. Ron Paul raised more than $4.5 million. Jon Huntsman, a former Utah governor and ambassador to China, raised $4.1 million with “less than half” coming from his personal funds, an official with his campaign said.
Employees had been increasingly troubled by Gingrich’s Tiffany purchases
Employees of presidential candidate Newt Gingrich grew increasingly concerned in recent years about their boss’s purchases from luxury jeweler Tiffany & Co., worrying that if he followed through on plans to run for president, it could become a political liability.
The purchases included jewelry valued up to as much as $300,000 for his wife’s Christmas gifts, selected each year during a fall Potomac River cruise sponsored by the jeweler. On a smaller scale, Gingrich (R) spent about $40,000 over four years, buying Tiffany trinkets as holiday gifts for up to 100 employees, according to three former employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the issue’s sensitivity.
Greg Sargent: Dems pounce on Romney’s latest mega flip-flop
Yesterday Mitt Romney backtracked on one of his core campaign messages — that Obama made the economy “worse” — and the Democratic National Committee has rushed out a new video documenting the flip-flop with footage.
It shows Romney claiming yesterday that he never said the economy got worse, followed by footage of Romney previously making that exact claim three times:
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