Replies to post #474672 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[newmedman]

I'm running for dog catcher, can you give me a penny today? I promise to be the best dog catcher this neighborhood has ever seen. I have great experience chasing my own down the street and I'm really good at it. You probably have met us before, but rounding her up has shaped my life experience into a goal for my community..

Just 1 penny could make all the difference in my campaign. I promise to catch all the loose dogs and return them to their rightful owners, unlike my opponent who only wants to take them to the gravel pit.

Can you donate today?

Just one penny could make this happen.

All my best,

Newmedman

[fuagf]

Me neither. Only very ordinary people would consider it, and guess
sending 1 penny would cost more than the 1 penny itself. Or not?

Trump’s invite to major donors prioritizes the committee paying his legal bills over the RNC
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Trump has invited high-dollar donors to Palm Beach, Florida, for an April 6 fundraiser that comes as his fundraising is well behind President Joe Biden and national Democrats. The invitation’s fine print says donations to the Trump 47 Committee will first be used to give the maximum amount allowed under federal law to Trump’s campaign. Anything left over from the donation next goes toward a maximum contribution to Save America, and then anything left from there goes to the RNC and then to state political parties.

Adav Noti, the executive director of the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said that is a break from fundraising norms. Usually, Noti said, candidates prioritize raising cash that can be spent directly on campaign activity. Save America, on the other hand, is structured as a “leadership PAC” and thus barred from spending directly on Trump’s own campaign activities. Legal spending made up 85% of Save America’s total operating expenses during the first two months of this year, roughly the same as 2023, when such expenses were about 89%. It has spent $8.5 million on legal fees so far this year.
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A separate contribution form for the Trump 47 Committee allows donors to give smaller contributions or a contribution of any size but still spells out in the fine print that the donation is first to be allocated to the Trump campaign and Save America.
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Trump’s handpicked leadership team for the RNC includes his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, who is the committee’s co-chair, and Chris LaCivita, who serves effectively as one of two campaign managers for the Trump campaign and is now also taking on a chief of staff role at the RNC.

Lara Trump in February said she thought Republican voters would like to see the RNC pay Trump’s legal fees.

But shortly before the leadership change was voted in at the RNC, LaCivita told the AP in an interview that “not a penny of the RNC’s money or, for that matter, the campaign’s money has gone or will go to pay legal fees,” he said.

Before Trump was a candidate, the RNC was paying some of his legal bills for cases in New York that began when he was president, The Washington Post reported. Former Chair Ronna McDaniel, who was ousted this month, said in 2022 that the RNC would stop paying once Trump became a candidate.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-campaign-fundraising-rnc-c0e8f1e7b59f70c5237e13a3462e5790

[SoxFan]

If you want to cost the campaign money you can donate a penny if you charge it on a credit card because the credit card will charge a minimum amount and that's more than a penny. While credit card companies have told retailers that any amount can be charged many retailers put up signs saying minimum charge is $10 because it costs them money and eats away at their cost of goods sold as the charge on $10 could be $.30 at minimum