Dean Spent $6.5M on Campaign Salaries

[wyldwolf]

Presidential hopeful Howard Dean lived up to his campaign slogan "people-powered Howard" last year, making campaign staff and consultants one of his biggest expenses as he spent all but about $8.5 million of the record $41 million he raised.

Dean spent more than $6.5 million on staff salaries and related expenses, and more than $2 million on consultants. Ads were another big cost, accounting for at least $7 million, and he spent at least $4.5 million on direct mail, campaign finance reports showed Saturday.

http://www.dunnconnect.com/articles/2004/01/30/ap/Headlines/d80e7euo2.txt

[mikehiggins]

1. Shazam! I thought Clark spent a lot of money ramping up his

campaign in a hurry after the September start, but he was a piker compared to Governor Dean. Those figures are amazing.

I guess Al Sharpton had a point at the NH debate. If I'd spent that much on Iowa I'd be screaming too.

Wonder why Kerry wasn't able to post his information on time, like Dean and Clark and Lieberman and Kuchinich and Gephardt did.

Probably busy.

[Jerseycoa]

2. Edwards didn't either nt

And Sharpton.

[babzilla]

3. Dean's campaign money:

of the people, by the people and for the people.

There's more than one way to stimulate the job market, WTG Dean.

Grassroots keep growing.

[retyred]

4. 41 million spent?

And without so much as a kiss.


retyred in fla
“Good-Night Paul, Wherever You Are”
So I read this book

[stickdog]

5. Kerry's vs, Dean's 4th quarter fundraising/disbursement numbers

http://herndon2.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00383653/107413/#DETAILED

Kerry's 4th quarter only

2.3 million in contributions
2.9 million in loans from Kerry to his own campaign
5.2 million total receipts
11.4 million total expenditures

4th quarter net = -9.1 million

Kerry's 2003 totals

17.7 million in personal contributions
0.1 million PAC money
2.9 million in loans from Kerry to his own campaign
2.7 million transferred from Kerry's Senate campaign
23.5 million total receipts
23.6 million total expenditures

2003 net = -3.0 million

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http://herndon2.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00378125/107331/

Dean's 4th quarter only

15.7 million in contributions
0.3 million in offsets to expenditures
16.0 million total receipts
18.7 million total expenditures

4th quarter net = -2.7 million

Dean's 2003 totals

41.0 million in personal contributions
0.3 million in offsets to expenditures
41.3 million total receipts
31.7 million total expenditures

2003 net = +9.6 million


Kerry raised 43% of the money Dean raised.
Kerry spent 75% of the money Dean spent.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. And tumbleweeds in response....

[Zomby Woof]

6. fiscal conservative my ass

I don't want his mitts near the U.S Treasury.

[SheilaT]

7. Pay attention. Dean is still

nearly ten million dollars to the good. He is a fiscal conservative.

[Zomby Woof]

8. at the pace he wastes money

That will get him through Ash Wednesday at the latest. ;-)

[mary_in_ri]

10. Dean's only fiscally conservative when it suits his purposes..

face it, the guy's flip-flopped his way through 11 years as governor of Vermont. His record there was of wasting tax dollars helping corporate friends get massive tax breaks and raiding the treasury for foolish projects like private access roads for IBM and Husky Injection Molding, and goodness knows what else he gave away that was hidden behind closed doors and is now sealed for his protection for 12 years.

Don't be a sheeple, Dean's been spinning us a fantasy, casting himself as a hero.. when the truth is anything but. We ridicule the
republicans for falling for Bush's BS, yet too many so called "radicals" are acting as naively, allowing themselves and their energies to be exploited by a Bush-lite like Ho Dean.

[stickdog]

13. If you are saying that the way a candidate spends money on his

campaign has some connection to the way he spends taxpayer money, then might I suggest that John Kerry is a typical "borrow and spend" Congressman who thrives on the blood red ink of outrageous deficit spending?

In contrast, Dean's campaign was, is and ever shall be in the black.

[stickdog]

11. This is for the entire 2003 campaign year.

Dean raised about 41 million dollars and spent about 31 million.

Meanwhile, Kerry raised about 18 million and spent about 24 million.

[joshcryer]

12. Indeed.

Very good points.