{"id":2280,"date":"2010-04-01T06:57:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T06:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-04-01T06:57:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T06:57:37","slug":"doing_well_by_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2280","title":{"rendered":"Doing Well By Doing Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

Progressive journalist Rogers Cadenhead looks into Jane Hamsher’s PAC filings and notes that it’s been very, very good to her<\/a> (and Glenn Greenwald)…<\/p>\n

Accountability Now collected $113,695 in donations during 2009, as it reported to the FEC, and spent $169,992 that year on nine consultants. Six of those people managed the committee: The PAC paid Hamsher $24,000, another $24,000 to PAC cofounder Glenn Greenwald of Salon.Com, $65,710 to two executive directors and $38,047 to two management consultants.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The PAC also paid $4,000 to Firedoglake for “rent,” according to its FEC filings. This expenditure is difficult to understand. Hamsher has operated her web site out of post office boxes at UPS Stores in Los Angeles and Falls Church, Va., and the Accountability Now web site states that “we have purposely avoided hiring a large staff or incurring the type of unnecessary expenses typically incurred by PACs (including even office rentals) in order to make our donors’ contributions last as long as possible.”<\/p>\n

Out of the $234,920 raised by FDL Action PAC in 2009, $44,192 was paid to Firedoglake and other business entities affiliated with Hamsher, according to FEC filings. The PAC paid $16,411 to Firedoglake for “shared general administrative expenses,” $14,111 to the site for “list purchase,” $9,920 to CommonSense Media for “online advertising” and $3,750 to KMP Research for “strategic consulting.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So out of $113K one PAC raised, a total of $151K was spent on salaries and consulting…133% of collections as overhead.<\/p>\n

The other PAC paid 19% to Hamsher and related entities. <\/p>\n

Damn, when I was trying to launch VictoryPAC, if I’d realized I could have paid myself like that, instead of spending money, I would have kept it going!<\/p>\n

Look I don’t often agree with Hamsher politically (but sometimes do). But what I’m unhappy about more than anything is the political class and the platinum hog trough it’s made of politics.<\/p>\n

Does Hamsher want to change that, or just get a seat at the banquet?
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Politics been berry berry good to Jane Hamsher…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}