It's All About the Money

Are there any professional politicians who aren't in it for the personal enrichment? I'm suspecting they're all crooks. Even the loudly professed Jesus followers. And maybe especially them.

She may, famously, not be a witch, but here’s a bit of money magic from former Delaware Republican Senate candidate and recent Mitt Romney endorser Christine O’Donnell: her political campaign gave $142,000 to her super PAC, which proceeded to buy copies of her book.

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O’Donnell’s book, “Troublemaker,” had a list price of $25.99. If the books were purchased at that price, the campaign would have gotten around 766 copies. It’s unclear how all those copies were used for fundraising purposes since O’Donnell only received contributions from 16 individuals in the second half of the year. If all of them received a copy, she would have 750 copies of the book on hand.

  TPM

Not exactly. The SuperPAC would have them. What O’Donnell has is the money in her personal bank account from the sales of all 766 copies the book. So, the point, which shouts out clearly to me, is that Christine O’Donnell will have received thousands of dollars from the sale of her book that she would not have received had the SuperPAC not bought them (using money which was not personally available to her while in the hands of her political campaign). I’m wondering who’s running the SuperPAC.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.