I examine how the Bob Barr campaign spent its money for the period ending in May 2008. This is all public data at the FEC dot GOV web site, but organizing it is a chore. You can read more of these in my magazine Liberty for All, which I only give away for free. by George Phillies
(libertarian)
Friday, May 8, 2009
For the period ending May 30 2008, the Barr campaign had $184,858 in receipts, of which it spent $131,712, leaving $53,145 on hand. The only debt reported is $1000 to the candidate for President. The seemingly legally-mandated merger with the Vice Presidential candidate's campaign finances would appear not to have happened yet.
Fees to various consultants are substantial, including: Russ Verney Political Consulting 7000 Doug Bandow Political Consulting 5498 McKenna Long & Aldridge Legal Fees 1746 Andrew MacPherson Contract Labor 1847 Autumn Productions Video Production 600 Wes Ave Photography 500 Small Government Solutions, LLC Direct Marketing 400 Peter Gemma 442
There were also fees to political firms, including: Advocacy Ink Media Consulting 11443 MDI Imaging & MailDirect Marketing 8677 Liberty Strategies for Contract Services 5500 Pulse Opinion Research LLC 4750 Integram Direct Marketing 6145
Computer expenses include Thru Tech Computer for $2922, $9000 to Aristotle International, Inc. Software, slightly over $2000 to RackSpace IT, and more than $17,500 to Terra Eclipse, the web site designers.
In addition to this, the committee gave Robert Jackson In-kind Travel Expenses of $1190.
There were more than two dozen plane tickets, but no bus tickets. Some of these appear to be either multiple tickets or First Class tickets. American Airlines $303, AirTran Airways $1407, AirTran Airways $115, AirTran Airways 333, Delta 946, Delta 236, AirTran Airways 115, AirTran Airways 115, AirTran Airways 792, AirTran Airways 547, Delta 179, Delta 623, Delta 145, Delta 192, Delta 147, Delta 110, Delta 170, AirTran Airways 75, AirTran Airways 493, American Airlines 883, Delta 477, Delta 279, AirTran Airways 231, AirTran Airways 115, AirTran Airways 231, AirTran Airways 519, Delta 603, American Airlines 1047, and Delta 989.
A list of meeting expenses included: The University Club of DC 352 Elio's 1621 2nd Ave 84th & 85th Meeting Expense 269 The Broker Restaurant Denver 1026 Gallaghers 619 The University Club of DC 160 Earls Restaurant Denver 412
and the convention: DenverLPCon 2008 Convention Registration 938 DenverLPCon 2008 Convention Booth 1600
and $313 for Car Rental.
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