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Saturday, August 07, 2004
DFA Q2 Financial Report
Maura in VA, a well-known DFA blogger, posted an excellent analysis of the 2nd quarter FEC report for DFA. With permission, I'm reprinting some of it here, but it's worth a look at the Daily Kos link below.
Who's Giving In the who's giving category for DFA's non-federal 527 account: SEIU and AFSCME continue to be great friends, with fair-weather pal Gerald McEntee going a long way to expiating his unfortunate "nuts" comment by donating $115,000 to DFA's non-federal account, followed closely by Andy Stern and our purple friends at SEIU, donating $100,000. Overshadowing both of those donations, though, was the quiet support of George Soros, from whom Dean scored a quarter of a million dollar donation for DFA's non-federal account.
Aside from that, well, pages and pages and pages and pages of small donations from grassroots supporters to the federal PAC, all of which appears to add up to a whopping $1,475,052 take for DFA in 2nd quarter, ending the quarter with $883,146 on hand. It's nothing like last year's Q2 take, but impressive for a PAC startup.
Who's Getting I'll leave it to others to comb through all of the contributions to non-federal candidates this quarter. In addition to small contributions to non-federal Dean Dozen candidates, DFA also made $1,000 contributions to dozens of state candidates, including a large number of NH state candidates, many of whom supported Dean in the primary.https://maura-in-va.dailykos.com/story/2004/7/19/63210/0449For federal candidates, this is a list of who got turkee from DFA in Q2. They're listed in the order in which they appeared in the FEC report (click for more).
August 7, 2004 at 11:43 AM in DFA | Permalink
Comments
Go George Soros! I nominate him for outstanding citizen of the year.
I promised the folks in Santa Fe I'd post the site of the Media Fund, which is NOT mediafund.org. Go here: https://www.makeamericaworkforus.com/ or click me.
They're the folks behind the best political ads on TV, imo, such as the Chinese factory piece. They're currently running the Halliburton ad. Moveon's ads, on the other hand, have turned out to be pretty lame. I was especially offended when they ran the footage of Richard Clarke after he asked them not to use him in an ad. I think that politicized his testimony to the commission.
Posted by: | Aug 8, 2004 10:49:55 AM
I agree that the Media Fund's ads are very good. Thanks for the link, which I'm adding to the National Activism link on the right-hand side of our site.
I think MoveOn has done alot of incredible things but have also made some mistakes, like including Clarke in that ad after he complained. I try to remember that their staff is very small and that they get lots of conflicting advice from contributors and others.
I don't think we can ever thank them enough for helping DFA1.0 with their internet structure and for mobilizing hundreds of thousands across the land. We're all kinda feeling our way these days and the new organizations and activists are bound to make mistakes. But think of how different the political landscape is this year compared with the 2000 election! Cause for hope.
Posted by: Barb in Albq | Aug 9, 2004 9:47:21 AM
