'08 Money: Edwards And Gore
According to PoliticalMoneyLine.com, ex-VP Al Gore spent $40K on polling this quarter, sending that amount to Penn, Schoen Berland on 3/22. (The firm currently polls for Sen. Hillary Clinton.)
The disbursement was recorded after the Gore/Lieberman GELAC transferred $40K to Gore's '00 presidential committee. So is Gore polling? For '08? For his new global warming movie?
No...
A Gore adviser says the disbursement is related to an '00 campaign committment.
Gov. Tom Vilsack (D-IA)'s Heartland PAC (nonfederal) received $400,600 in the first three months of the year for a total of more than $2M since it was established in '05.
Sen. Evan Bayh's campaign account, fully transferrable to a presidential, raised approx. $469K to bring its cash on hand total to 9.826M. His All America PAC raised $420.3K, spent about $280K and ended the quarter with 967K on hand.
And ex-Sen. John Edwards's One America Committee PAC raised $286K, spent $302K and ended the cycle with a smidgen over $7K on hand and debts of $108K.
Why the debt? Says an Edwards aide: "This quarter we were focused on raising money for the student trip to New Orleans to help with Katrina clean-up."
Edwards has raised more than $5.5M for Dem candidates and parties this cycle, according to the aide. Edwards, instead of contributing PAC money to '06 candidates, uses the PAC to pay for his expenses to help them raise money.