Tea Party

Palin Hauls in Nearly $500k In Just Over a Month

By Jay Newton-Small | @JNSmall | November 30, 2010 | +

Sarah Palin raised $469,000 between Oct. 13 and Nov. 22 bringing her total for the year to over $3 million, Tim Crawford, SarahPAC’s treasurer, told TIME exclusively. Crawford attributed the surge of funds to energy surrounding the midterm elections, Palin’s endorsements and her TLC reality show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.” Her second book, America By Heart, came out Nov. 23.

The PAC spent $64,000 buying advance copies of her books, “just as we did last year” with her first book, Going Rogue, Crawford said. “They’re a great fundraising tool for us.” Palin is in the midst of a two-week cross-country book tour.

(See photos of Sarah Palin’s new reality show.)

Overall the PAC spent $581,000 between Oct. 13 and Nov. 22. A larger percentage than normal was spent on contributions to political candidates, $244,000, as Palin tried to help her 81-endosed candidates over the Nov. 2 finish line. Fifty-five of them won.

All of the $469,000 was raised online or through direct mail. The former Alaska governor has had only two fundraisers for her PAC this year – the last one this past summer — compared to Mitt Romney’s nine. Crawford expects to file his report to the Federal Election Commission this afternoon.

(Read about Sarah Palin living large since leaving office.)

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  • sacredh

    Run Sarah Run. The country needs you (to re-elect Obama).

  • Ike Jakson

    Hi sacredh

    You better be careful what you hope for old friend. You may just get it. What then?

  • sacredh

    Ike, I’ll gladly take the risk. If Sarah runs I’ll even send her a check (primary only). If Obama can’t beat Palin, he deserves to hit the lecture circuit. It’s cold and raining here. How is it where you’re at? I got my outside Christmas lights up yesterday evening and my gutters cleaned out for the final time. I feel asleep fairly early last night and was up before dawn making peanut butter cookies. I ate the whole first pan.

  • Buzz Feedback

    In related news, Waffle House reports November earnings down by $469,000.

  • sacredh

    It must be a cookie OD. I “fell” asleep.

  • nflfoghorn

    Kitten genocide – details @ 11.

  • sacredh

    (See photos of Sarah Palin’s new reality show.)

    I’ll choose knitting needles through my eyes first.

  • nflfoghorn

    Or a colonoscopy, which would do a better job at cutting through crap.

  • sacredh

    When I first saw the title of her show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” my first thought was “The b!tch bought the whole state?”.

  • http://2thirdsrocks.wordpress.com 2thirdsrocks

    …but still, in the deeper recesses of sacreds mind…lie other thoughts and visions of Sarah…and they don’t involve knitting needles…

  • sacredh

    You’re right. Plastics sheets, body lotion, whipped cream, a feather, a riding crop, chocolate syrup, handcuffs and closepins spring to mind. The Chipmunks singing in the background completes the scene.

  • http://2thirdsrocks.wordpress.com 2thirdsrocks

    …you’ve been peeking in my room…scary…

  • sacredh

    LOL. Sarah is a very good looking woman. I think Christine O’Donnel is also attractive in a Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island sort of way too. I gotta run now. My better half wants to get groceries and I’m the offical shopping cart pusher and picker upper of things on the top shelf. Curse height. With any luck I can talk her into stopping off for lunch.

  • ohiolibb

    Run Sarah Run!!

  • kevin

    Oh, please please please run.

  • http://erieangel.wordpress.com erieangel

    I had been of a similar mind–that Palin should run in order to assure Obama’s re-election. However, stupidity seems to be the order of the day and I’m afraid (just as I was leading up to the midterms) that the American electorate will do something insane in 2012 if Palin is anywhere near the ticket.

  • deconstructiva

    Sarah’s team has a new facebook page, full story about it (and team) + link to it found here –
    http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/11/revealed-administrators-of-sarah-palins.html

  • Alex Vallas

    Only in America can a birdbrain become so financially successful posing as an intellectual with expertise in everything from ecnomics, science, Wikileaks and Government Security, the environment to birth control. For a woman who doesn’t read it is truly a miracle. It reminds me of all those televangelist that speak to God and are able to perform miracles. Maybe God chose McCain to carry out His wishes. Glory Be…..

  • hippooath

    Grats on making more money.

    And please use your money to run. I want her to run. I implore her to run. I’m not the slightest worried that she’ll win, no matter how crazy the times might be. We saw this election that the most idiotic and fanatic people lost. Because just as tired as we might be and as dissapointed we might feel, we won’t vote for crazy. Even if it means keeping someone like Harry around.

    Only the fanatic reads her books, watch her show and think she’s the secondcoming of a great statesperson.

    Most people hear her mangled talking points and roll their eyes while the fanatics pretend that we’re scared sh!tless by her.

    I laugh. Every single time she says something I laugh. And I laugh at people who take what she says as gosple.

  • rogerlakins

    H.L. Mencken said this about someone else. It fits really well in this situation: “It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicality … sentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all—stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Sarah Palin.”

  • squirmz

    I have a question. It states in the article that the money was donated to a PAC. If I understand PAC money correctly, it is not their money for personal use correct? Meaning it doesn’t go in her pocket, and if it did it would be (illegal, unethical whathaveyou.) So after that the article says that the PAC money was used to buy her books. That would mean she’d get royalties on the book sales perhaps? Isn’t that like money laundering?

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