2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWealthy Donors and Lobbyist Bundlers are Largely Bankrolling Hillary's Campaign
The bulk of Clinton's campaign funds came from an elite, wealthy class of donorsthose who can afford to give the maximum donation. In 2014, roughly 0.04 percent of Americans made the maximum donation for a primary campaign of $2,600 (adjusted to $2,700 in this election cycle). Bush's campaign raised more than 80 percent of its cash from this upper-crust of donors, and Clinton raised 64 percent. Clinton may well have had 250,000 donorsbut just 11,400 of them accounted for almost two-thirds of her total fundraising.
Clinton also got a big boost from her bundlerssupporters who tap their personal and professional networks to amass donations for the campaign. Candidates are only required to list the names of registered lobbyists who have bundled for them, and Clinton did go above and beyond that by releasing on her website the names of 122 people who had raised $100,000 or more for her campaign. With much less fanfare, she also disclosed to the Federal Election Commission the names of 40 registered lobbyists who bundled just over $2 million for her campaign.
The top lobbyist bundling for Clinton was Jackson Dunn, who represents Mastercard, Dow Chemical, Pepsico, and Noble Energy, a Houston-based oil and gas company. Dunn bundled more than $231,000 for the campaign. He wasn't the only lobbyist with ties to the oil and gas sector who went to work fundraising for Clinton. Lobbyist Ankit Desai, who works for natural gas company Cheniere, raised $82,000. Theresa Fariello, of ExxonMobil, raised $21,200 for the campaign.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/hillary-clinton-fundraising-bundlers-lobbyists
I believe it's been said here that Hillary's obscene amount of campaign cash mostly come from small donors. For once and for all it's not true, so quit promoting a lie.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)No lie there.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)And then I hope Hillary is flush as Hell for the GE so that she can win us back the Senate as well.
frylock
(34,825 posts)London Lover Man
(371 posts)'Course I have to get stinking drunk to vote for Clinton in the GE, but Bernie has my vote in the primaries.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)She's going to put them in jail or cut into their profits! Really!!
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)these last past two days with an absurd claim that only 3.4% of her donations are from big moneyed interest.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)when it comes to the GE.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Maybe she will join Sanders and McCain to help reinstall Glass Steagall ...that will really make her buddies happy too.