Thompson Raises $3.4M, Spends $625,700

$3.4m is more than enough to start up a campaign -- and a not un-impressive sum for a non-candidate to raise. Too bad that unnamed Thompson aides had set expectations for $5M. Heading into July, when he expanded his staff significantly, Thompson had about $2.7M on hand.

Some details, courtesy of the campaign (er, the committee)

The biggest single expense: web hardware, at $66,750. 7,500 or so donors contributed a total of $771,783 through the web. Payroll accounted for $106K. The average donation was $469.8. 148 donors were from Florida, 111 from Georgia, and 780 were from Tennessee -- about 30% of his itemized total. About $282,000 came from lawyers and lobbyists, though only three donors listed their occupation as "lobbyist."

Thompson reimbursed himself $2800 for travel. Departed campaign manager Tom Collamore was paid more than $14,000. The firm employing Michael Toner, Thompson's legal counsel received about $25,000. Jeri Thompson did her work for free.

Comments

Jeri Thompson did her work for free.

She makes up for it by workin' the pole.

Posted by goethean | July 31, 2007 3:58 PM

Jeri Thompson did her work for free.

Are you implying that Thomson is not part of Republican Culture of Corruption like many GOP congressmen who pay their spouses for champaign work?

But don't forget that Thomson has been lifetime lobbyist and his campaign is full of lobbyists.

Posted by Fredo | July 31, 2007 4:40 PM

Way uncool, goethean. And letting this get posted calls into some question who is reviewing what goes online here.

Posted by eric ueland | July 31, 2007 4:41 PM

This place reads like the Democratic Underground or Kos.

Posted by thatcher | July 31, 2007 7:52 PM

Great to see Fred raising money. Now if he could only get his popularity up. That Ron Paul guy is absolutely huge on the internet. Fred's only got 774 subscribers and 28,022 channel views. Maybe he can get some of those people? corporations? political action committees? to watch his videos. I'm impressed with his (2) pages of comments since May 15th. That shows me people are hungry for what he has to say.

Ron Paul has only 22,877 subscribers and 2,565,671 channel views (almost 1000x more than my hero, Fred Thompson). The next closest candidate from any party on YOUTUBE is Barack Obama with 9,660 subscribers.

How about the military? I can't understand why they'd donate more to Ron Paul than any other candidate, especially Fred Thompson? Could it be that maybe Ron is really the conservative that everyone is looking for to deliver us from evil? One thing for certain...Fred will bring us ALL together (Mexico, U.S.A. and Canada) as a card-carrying Council on Foreign Relations member. Personally, I love Mexican food. How about you?

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