Cost of "free" democracy
While I'm on the topic of free stuff.... I was a little shocked to hear how much money US presidential hopefuls have to raise for their campaign leading up to 2008. In the third quarter of 2007, the following amounts were raised by Democrats:
Hillary Clinton $27 million
Barack Obama $20 million
John Edwards $7 million
And for the Republicans:
Rudy Guiliani $11 million
Mitt Romney $10 million
Fred Thomson $9.3 million
My number-crunch tells me that the Clinton machine hauled in US$12 500 per hour over these past months. When does she get the time to write those Thank You notes?
Hillary Clinton $27 million
Barack Obama $20 million
John Edwards $7 million
And for the Republicans:
Rudy Guiliani $11 million
Mitt Romney $10 million
Fred Thomson $9.3 million
My number-crunch tells me that the Clinton machine hauled in US$12 500 per hour over these past months. When does she get the time to write those Thank You notes?
posted by pip @ 9:14 pm
3 Comments:
At 10:17 am ,
Anonymous said...
Hey Pip
You will be pleased to know my new employer is having a morning tea for Making Poverty History... how cool. I will go & drop a few dollars in on your behalf!!
naomi
PS BHP will match up to $25,000 per employee giving to a nominated charity! Even cooler
Next week marks Anti Poverty Week and you can be part of this year's activities.
Last year, 23.5 million people stood up against poverty. They stood up to remind their governments to keep their promises. The promises they made seven years ago with the Millennium Development Goals.
This year, you can be one of the millions who stand up and speak out.
You are invited to a special morning tea with World Vision who will be joining us to speak about the ‘Make Poverty History’ program and you will have the opportunity to FACE UP to poverty with a group photo which will be used as part of the campaign.
The numbers of participants will be recorded in the Global Campaign Against Poverty in the attempt to break the Guinness World Record set in 2006.
We are asking for a gold coin donation by those who are interested. The money raised will be donated to World Vision and matched through BHP Billiton’s matched giving program.
At 3:01 am ,
Cal said...
Hey Pip,
Remember my post about readers and writers? Well, you'll appreciate this because I know you're a bit of fan of her's - the one and only Maggi Dawn has linked through to it from a post of hers!! Check it out
http://maggidawn.typepad.com/maggidawn/2007/10/writers-readers.html
I'd normally email this but I don't have your email because it is showing off. But I feel well cool to have her link to me (even though I do know her, sort of, she's friends with friends of mine). Needed to grin gleefully with someone.
At 5:25 pm ,
pip said...
CAL-
I read the link from Maggie...TOTALLY worth showing off over = )
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