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Closed on Mondays Opens Restaurant Doors to Nonprofits
By Rebecca Delaney - AOL NewsChef Aliza Miner found inspiration in a day off. Canele, the Los Angeles restaurant where she runs Sunday brunch, closes on Mondays -- leaving stoves unused and a dining room empty. Miner saw these shuttered Mondays as an opportunity to raise money for local nonprofits. ClosedonMondays.com Closed on Mondays raises money for food-based nonprofits by holding fundraising dinners during a restaurant's off hours. Miner had investigated volunteering for nonprofits that work with food, but she couldn't find an effective way of helping. "These groups were all doing great things, but ...
RNC Raises $5.7 Million in January Under New Chairman Reince Priebus
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyWhen Reince Priebus was elected to head the Republican National Committee last month, he vowed to boost fundraising, especially from wealthy donors, and so far he's done exactly that. The RNC pulled in $5.7 million in January, and its new chairman said $3.5 million of that came in after his election Jan. 14, Roll Call reported. "We owe a lot of our success to major donors who helped us reach 180 percent of our monthly major donor goal, and we were able to accomplish that in the last two weeks of January," Priebus (pictured) said in a statement, adding that the committee still has "a lot of ...
Tim Pawlenty: Meeting and Greeting on Mike Huckabee's Arkansas Turf
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyArkansas doesn't have the political star power of Iowa or New Hampshire, but that isn't stopping potential 2012 presidential hopefuls from visiting. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty popped into the state this week to meet with GOP elected officials and leaders. His journey to the land of former Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee was the first this year for a likely GOP contender for the White House. Pawlenty had no public events in Arkansas, but this wasn't about selling books and giving a speech to the masses. Pawlenty's visit focused on networking and making big-money ...
Palin's PAC Raised $3.5 Million Last Year, Starts 2011 With $1.3 Million
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAfter bringing in $279,000 during the final six weeks of last year, Sarah Palin's political action committee's total fundraising for 2010 topped $3.5 million, according to a financial disclosure filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission. Nearly all the money raised by SarahPAC from Nov. 23 to Dec. 31 came from individual donors -- mostly in amounts less than $200, The New York Times reported. Of 600 itemized donations, only eight were for $1,000 or more, the newspaper said. SarahPAC spent about $2.6 million last year, leaving about $1.3 million in the bank for 2011. Politico ...
Democrats Hope Liberal Outside Group Will Provide Balance
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThis year, many congressional Republicans had a number of big-spending conservative groups to thank for propelling them to victory, and now Democrats hope a new liberal organization will do the same for them in 2012. The political operative and writer David Brock has put together $4 million in funding and is hiring a staff for a Democratic-leaning outside group called American Bridge, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The group, which will fund media efforts for Democratic causes and candidates, will be headed by former Maryland lieutenant governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the daughter ...
Barbour on '12 Run: 'We've Begun to Talk About It' (And Daniels? 'I'm Thinking')
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailySAN DIEGO -- At the final news conference of the Republican Governors Association conference here, a nervous (and beautiful) young reporter addressed her question to the "president" instead of the governor – but which governor? "Hopefully someday you will be president,'' she corrected herself, and now all six men in blue shirts sitting at the dais were waiting to see which of them she meant: Was it Mississippi's Haley Barbour, maybe, or Indiana's Mitch Daniels? (Nope, it was actually . . . Michigan's governor-elect, Rick Snyder, which prompted a huge laugh from the others.) "Can you ...
Conservative Group FreedomWorks Hit by Cyber Attack
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA planned "money bomb" thwarted by a cyber attack. No, it's not the stuff of comic books, but a page out of this year's election battles. FreedomWorks' computer server was hit by a mysterious hacker Thursday, and the conservative group said it believes it was targeted by a political foe just as it launched a major fundraising drive, sometimes also called a "money bomb," The Wall Street Journal reported. The FreedomWorks Web site went down at 9:45 a.m., just as its $200,000 money bomb was being promoted on conservative host Glenn Beck's radio show. The group estimated it lost about $80,000 in ...
Palin's PAC Raises $1.2 Million; She Spends a Million on Candidates, Consultants
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySarah Palin raised a hefty $1.2 million over the summer and also spent about a million, paying consultants for advice on finance, international affairs and media, and also contributing to favored candidates in the midterm elections. It was Palin's strongest three months of fundraising since her resignation as Alaska's governor in July 2009, Politico reported. Palin's SarahPAC gave $10,000 each to Delaware Senate hopeful Christine O'Donnell, New Hampshire GOP Senate nominee Kelly Ayotte, and the Iowa Republican Party, the AP said, citing reports at the Federal Election Commission for the ...
Dems Break Fundraising Record, Bring in Over $16 Million Last Month
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyDemocrats are trumpeting a record-breaking month of fundraising in September and are hoping it's a sign that the party base is energizing as Election Day nears. The Democratic National Committee said Monday that it raised over $16 million last month, the most during the 2009-2010 election cycle, according to The Hill. Political parties are required to file monthly financial reports with the Federal Election Commission. The haul beat the DNC's previous record from March, when it raised about $13.3 million, The New York Times reported. DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse attributed the boost in ...
Recession-Proof: 2010 Campaign Spending Breaks Records
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe long arm of the lingering recession doesn't reach into politics, with campaign fundraising and spending records being set in House, Senate and gubernatorial elections this year, The Associated Press reported Tuesday. Financial disclosures show that congressional candidates have raised nearly $1.2 billion so far, outpacing fundraising in the last three election cycles going back to 2004. "We may be on track for the most expensive cycle ever, even more than '08, which is really hard to believe," Michael Toner, a former Federal Election Commission chairman, told the AP. Record-breaking ...
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