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The Total So Far for Jeb Bush and His Super PAC? $114 Million
The Total So Far for Jeb Bush and His Super PAC? $114 Million
Jeb Bush in Hudson, N.H. on Wednesday.Credit Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times
Updated, 2:54 p.m. | KENNEBUNKPORT, Me. – Jeb Bush and his allies announced on Thursday that they had amassed over $114 million in campaign cash over the last six months for his presidential bid, dwarfing the combined fund-raising of other GOP contenders.
Nearly all of that money was raised by a super PAC, Right to Rise, that Mr. Bush’s allies set up in January, and for which Mr. Bush, the former Florida governor, spent much of the winter and spring raising money.
Mr. Bush himself raised $11.4 million during his first two weeks as an official candidate for the presidency, his campaign announced on Thursday, reaping cash at a clip of about $700,000 per day through the end of June.
The announcements came as Mr. Bush’s top fund-raisers gathered for a two-day conference at a hotel here and a celebratory dinner at the Bush family compound.
“Jeb is encouraged and grateful for the tremendous early support and enthusiasm his candidacy has generated since he launched his campaign,” said Woody Johnson, Mr. Bush’s finance chairman, in a statement announcing the $11.4 million total. “We are confident our campaign will have the resources needed to get Jeb’s conservative record, message and vision for the future out to voters across the country.”
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: The Total So Far for Jeb Bush and His Super PAC? $114 Million
Maybe we should just forego free elections and just give the political office to the person that raises the most dough.
We can also change our national motto from e pluribus unum to he with the most money controls the country. That fits more with the way we do things since the Citizens United decision.
In the words of Yakov Smirnoff: "what a country!"
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Re: The Total So Far for Jeb Bush and His Super PAC? $114 Million
Wow. That's more than double that what Hillary has raised thus far.
Guess Jeb's gonna be the Republican nominee.
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Re: The Total So Far for Jeb Bush and His Super PAC? $114 Million
Maybe we should just forego free elections and just give the political office to the person that raises the most dough. - rongone
Exactly. Sort of like electing an oligarchy via the democratic process. Unique in the history of mankind. They'll be talking and writing about it a couple of hundred years from now.
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