2012 Election

=orphan, just repurposed; see also tag 3/15BO top $
<a href="http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-donors-with-dollars-top-5-fundraisers-for-obama-2012oct31-story.html">http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-donors-with-dollars-top-5-fundraisers-for-obama-2012oct31-story.html</a>=Rep convention:The convention was designated as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Special_Security_Event" title="National Special Security Event" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Special Security Event</a>, which meant that ultimate authority over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement" title="Law enforcement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">law enforcement</a> went to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service" title="United States Secret Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Secret Service</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Homeland_Security" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Homeland Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Department of Homeland Security</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Republican_National_Convention#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a> The federal government provided $50 million for Convention security.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Republican_National_Convention#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a> Much of the money went to deputizing additional police. Other expenses included expanded surveillance technology and an armored <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAT" title="SWAT" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">SWAT</a> vehicle.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Republican_National_Convention#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Republican_National_Convention#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a> Tampa Bay disclosed specifically that it had spent $1.18 M on video linkages between ground police and helicopters.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Republican_National_Convention#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Republican_National_Convention#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Republican_National_Convention#cite_note-danielson1-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a> The city paid $16,500 to the Florida State Fairgrounds Authority in exchange for police use of local fairgrounds as a command center.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Republican_National_Convention#cite_note-Wiatroswki2Aug12-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a>Dani Doane of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Heritage Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Heritage Foundation</a> described the police presence as "unnerving" and "like a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_state" title="Police state" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">police state</a>".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Republican_National_Convention#cite_note-Morelli-Aug_30.2C_2012-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Republican_National_Convention#cite_note-TBT_Aug_31.2C_2012-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a> Others reported a quiet week with small protests and few arrests.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Republican_National_Convention#cite_note-Velde_August_31.2C_2012-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Republican_National_Convention#cite_note-Carlton-Aug_30.2C_2012-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a> Police handed out bottles of water during the event<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Republican_National_Convention#cite_note-Miller-Aug_30.2C_2012-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a> and at one point served protestors a box lunch.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Republican_National_Convention#cite_note-Lang.26_Wilmath-Aug_30-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a>Chapter 3 The Party of Koch p. 51
Am Spect guys wd write ltr to scaife and get 6 figures to do BC oppo.
david koch 1980 VP run (ltr in basement found sez loophole allow him to fund whole race if a cand). 57
wrote letter to RR told him to stop calling himself libertarian b/c he was not conserve enough.
abolish fed res, dept of ed and energy, no min wage, no hwy $ abolish soc security # threat to nukes 58.
Fail --> 3 change: don't be cand 2) don't run to rt of gop  but pull part rt 3) fund movement, not elections.59.
vertically horizontally integrated strategy " 59 idea --> policy to educ, to grassroots org to lobby to litigation to pol action 59
mercatus at least 14m$ koch
koch funded FREE legal retreats 60 mercatus hit list regs 14 of 23 61
2102 400m$ fed elections
2007 82 house gop voted for; 2008 Mccain and gop platform acknowledged agw, McC cap and trade 63. [now zombies].
after CU N Carolina election $ 4x in 4 yrs, 3/4 from Pope 66; 70% of outside $ went to gop gov cand mcCrory (7 of top 10 gop)
GOP ran NC 1st time in 100 yrs; "claice away social safety net" reverse focus on schools ?
NC 300 bills 1st yr; cut unemployment, daycare .... all John Locke fdn book ideas done 67 2 doz ALEC bills; 
2010 aspen/koch 1.6$m ~ dems incumbent state reps, got 80% incl Feingold
WI flipped
Justice Prosser  2.7M$ kochs, broke tie to uphold walker kill collective bargaining. 68
afp 1.5M$ on ads alone to beat recall; bus in ppl10 m total; printed absentee ballots w/ wrong date 68
cut 800m from schools, stopped min wage up, added work req for food stamps (lost 30k ppl) voter ID...
2010 gop got control of 12 states
2012 dems got 1 mil more votes, but held house; VA BO 51%, 8 gop 3 dems house; mich 54% 9/3 dem
Thom Tillis NC speaker house beat Kay hagan w/ 50M$ outside $ lots AFP so Reid lost mjr.<table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="650"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2">$7 billion spent on 2012 campaign, FEC says
By: Tarini Parti
January 31, 2013 10:26 PM EDT</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top" class="story" style="margin-bottom: 7px; margin-top: 5px; display: block;">The total number of dollars spent on the 2012 election exceeded the number of people on this planet.About $7 billion was spent by candidates, parties and outside groups on the 2012 election – beating even the unprecedented expected total of $6 billion, according to a review of campaign finance reports by the Federal Election Commission.(<a href="http://www.politico.com/gallery/2012/08/the-billion-dollar-buy-2012-mega-donors/000332-004274.html" rel="noreferrer" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PHOTOS: 2012 mega-donors</a>)FEC Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub announced the eye-popping figure at the agency’s meeting Thursday.The FEC estimates that candidates spent about $3.2 billion of the total $7 billion, parties spent another $2 billion and other outside political committees made up more than $2.1 billion. The agency processed 11 million pages of documents filed in calendar year 2012 alone.“It’s obviously only an estimate,” Weintraub told POLITICO. “It’s really hard to come up with ‘the number.’”And Weintraub said future elections could see even more spending.“It’s a lot of money. Every presidential election is the most expensive ever. Elections don’t get cheaper,” she added.Spending in the first post-Citizens United presidential election exploded as the FEC remained gridlocked on critical issues. Three years after the Supreme Court ruling that changed the campaign finance system, the FEC has yet to change its regulations to address the decision.The agency also found that despite the proliferation of super PACs, traditional political action committees outspent the new breed. Of the total spending by outside committees, $1.2 billion was spent by traditional PACs and $950 million was spent by super PACs.Weibtraub said she isn’t concerned with how much is being spent on elections as long as it’s transparent.“I’m not saying it’s too much money,” she said. “Some might argue it’s not enough. I’ve been trying to work on rules that would enhance transparency, but I haven’t been successful so far.”http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=BE7F4A0F-6881-41D1-9116-94FB931398C9</td></tr></tbody></table>With the final 2012 campaign finance reports, and their amendments, all in (well, mostly), the Center for Responsive Politics calculates that the elections cost at least $6.3 billion — more than we previously estimated.The final figure cements 2012’s status as the most expensive election cycle ever.In late October, we estimated that the <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/10/2012-election-spending-will-reach-6.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">election would cost about $6 billion</a>. Even that figure was a revision of a $5.8 billion calculus made earlier in the year. Skyrocketing outside spending continually exceeded estimates, causing us to revise up.<div style="margin: 5px 0px;"><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 5px 0px;">The cost of the presidential election alone remains at roughly the figure we calculated in late October, about $2.6 billion. Spending on congressional races by candidates and other committees and groups topped $3.6 billion in 2012. </div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 5px 0px;">On the presidential level, President Barack Obama’s<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/candidate.php?id=N00009638" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">re-election campaign</a> outspent the campaigns of all his Republican rivals put together. Obama’s campaign spent about $737.9 million, compared to the combined Republican total of $624.8 million. Spending by other committees in the presidential race, however, heavily favored Republicans and helped make up the deficit.</div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 5px 0px;">The <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/totals.php?cmte=RNC&cycle=2012" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Republican National Committee</a>, for instance, laid out $333.9 million for the presidential contest, far more than the <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/totals.php?cmte=DNC&cycle=2012" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Democratic National Committee</a>‘s $197.8 million. Outside spending by super PACs and politically active nonprofits on the presidential race also came out heavily in favor of Republicans. Conservative outside groups spent $454.5 million to get a Republican elected president, while liberal outside groups spent a relatively paltry $124.5 million.</div><div style="margin: 5px 0px;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/news/assets_c/2013/03/election_totals2-10675.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img src="http://www.opensecrets.org/wp-content/uploads/news/assets_c/2013/03/election_totals2-thumb-500x394-10675.png" width="500" height="394" alt="election_totals2.png" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: left; border: none; vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin: 0px auto 20px;" /></a><div style="line-height: 24px; text-align: left; margin: 5px 0px;">(click to expand)</div><div style="margin: 5px 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 24px; margin: 5px 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;">Spending by all House and Senate candidates topped $1.7 billion, with House candidates alone responsible for almost exactly $1 billion of the total. House Republican candidates held the edge in spending, accounting for about $532 million, while Democrats accounted for $447 million. In the Senate, Democratic candidates were also outspent — $331.4 million to $408.5 million by the GOP Senate candidates.</div></div><div style="line-height: 24px; text-align: left; margin: 5px 0px;">Outside spending on congressional races also heavily favored Republicans over Democrats. Conservative outside spending groups spent $103.5 million on House races, compared to $81.6 million by liberal groups. Similarly, conservative outside groups spent $171.3 million on Senate races, while liberal outside groups spent $98.5 million.</div><div style="margin: 5px 0px;"><div style="line-height: 24px; text-align: left; margin: 5px 0px;">One calculation by which Democrats led Republicans was in non-presidential party spending. Both parties together spent a total of $1 billion this election, of which $583 million was spent by the Democratic party committees and Republican party committees spent $444.7 million.</div><div style="margin: 5px 0px;"><div style="margin: 5px 0px;"><div style="line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">An important note: We have modified the methodology by which we calculate total cost, and thus a precise comparison between the costs of the 2012 election and the 2008 election is not possible. Previously, we calculated party spending by relying on press releases provided by the FEC. Now, we are able to use more detailed and newly provided summary data to calculate these totals. Furthermore, we used to be unable to include a calculation for spending by PACs on overhead expenses such as salary and office rent, but the new data allows us to include these totals. We have recalculated the final cost of the 2010 election, but can’t do so for earlier cycles because the more detailed data is not available from the Federal Election Commission.</div>A full breakout of our analysis is below:<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/03/the-2012-election-our-price-tag-fin/">http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/03/the-2012-election-our-price-tag-fin/</a></div>==In their new book, “Dollarocracy,” media experts John Nichols and Bob McChesney reveal for the first time that an eye-popping $10 billion was spent in the 2012 election. Even more importantly, they reveal that the machinery of the campaign cycle is now permanent. Even when elections aren’t being held, the Dollacracy is trumping democracy.

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<div style="line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">We've just witnessed the most expensive election in U.S. history! Over $6 billion was spent by federal campaigns, super PACs, political nonprofits and the party committees.</div>

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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Have you taken a close look at the projected spending associated with November's election? It's truly eye opening:</div>

<li style=" text-align: left;">Presidential candidates....$1,377,000,000</li>

<li style=" text-align: left;">House Candidates.............$1,010,000,000</li>

<li dir="ltr" style=" text-align: left;">Senate Candidates............$720,000,000</li>

<li style=" text-align: left;">Party Committees...............$1,800,000,000</li>

<li style=" text-align: left;">Outside Groups...................$1,210,000,000</li>

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<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/03/20/8465/donor-profile-sheldon-adelson">http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/03/20/8465/donor-profile-sheldon-adelson</a>

<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/12/20/11970/top-25-super-pac-donors-2012-election-cycle">http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/12/20/11970/top-25-super-pac-donors-2012-election-cycle</a>

<h1 itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;">Top 25 super PAC donors for 2012 election cycle</h1>

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<table class="super_donor" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="auto"><thead><tr><td width="40" align="middle">Rank</td><td width="353" align="left">Name</td><td width="111" align="middle">Total Given</td><td width="111" align="middle">Ideology</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td class="rank">1</td><td class="name">Sheldon Adelson & family (<a href="http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/03/20/8465/donor-profile-sheldon-adelson">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$93.3 million</td><td class="ideo">Republican</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">2</td><td class="name">Harold Simmons & wife, companies (<a href="http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/03/20/8460/donor-profile-harold-simmons">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$30.9 million</td><td class="ideo">Republican</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">3</td><td class="name">Bob Perry (<a href="http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/03/20/8466/donor-profile-bob-perry">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$23.5 million</td><td class="ideo">Republican</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">4</td><td class="name">Fred Eychaner (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/07/30/10460/donor-profile-fred-eychaner">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$14.1 million</td><td class="ideo">Democratic</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">5</td><td class="name">Joe Ricketts (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/10/23/11606/donor-profile-john-joe-ricketts">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$13.1 million</td><td class="ideo">Republican</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">6</td><td class="name">William S. Rose (Specialty Group) (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/node/11959/">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$12.1 million</td><td class="ideo">Republican</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">7</td><td class="name">United Auto Workers (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/10/23/11605/donor-profile-united-auto-workers">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$11.8 million</td><td class="ideo">Democratic</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">8</td><td class="name">National Education Association (<a href="http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/04/24/8732/donor-profile-national-education-association">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$10.8 million</td><td class="ideo">Democratic</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">9</td><td class="name">Michael Bloomberg (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/12/20/11973/donor-profile-michael-bloomberg">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$10 million</td><td class="ideo">Independent</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">10</td><td class="name">Republican Governors Association (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/10/28/11645/donor-profile-republican-governors-association">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$9.8 million</td><td class="ideo">Republican</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">11</td><td class="name">James H. Simons (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/09/28/10999/donor-profile-james-h-simons">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$9.6 million</td><td class="ideo">Democratic</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">12</td><td class="name">AFSCME (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/12/20/11969/donor-profile-afscme">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$8.2 million</td><td class="ideo">Democratic</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">13</td><td class="name">AFL-CIO (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/04/24/8734/donor-profile-afl-cio">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$7.4 million</td><td class="ideo">Democratic</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">14</td><td class="name">Robert B. Rowling (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/08/22/10741/donor-profile-robert-rowling">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$6.1 million</td><td class="ideo">Republican</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">15</td><td class="name">American Federation of Teachers (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/12/20/11972/donor-profile-american-federation-teachers">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$5.8 million</td><td class="ideo">Democratic</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">16</td><td class="name">Robert Mercer (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/08/23/10748/donor-profile-robert-mercer">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$5.5 million</td><td class="ideo">Republican</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">17</td><td class="name">Steve and Amber Mostyn (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/09/28/11000/donor-profile-steve-and-amber-mostyn">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$5.2 million</td><td class="ideo">Democratic</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">18</td><td class="name">George Soros* & family (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/12/20/11975/donor-profile-george-soros">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$5.1 million</td><td class="ideo">Democratic</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">19</td><td class="name">William Koch (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/07/30/10458/donor-profile-william-bill-kochoxbow-carbon-llc">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$4.8 million</td><td class="ideo">Republican</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">20</td><td class="name">Peter Thiel (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/04/23/8726/donor-profile-peter-thiel">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$4.7 million</td><td class="ideo">Republican</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">21</td><td class="name">SEIU (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/07/30/10461/donor-profile-service-employees-international-union">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$4.4 million</td><td class="ideo">Democratic</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">21</td><td class="name">Joe Craft (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/12/20/11958/donor-profile-joe-craft">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$4.4 million</td><td class="ideo">Republican</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">23</td><td class="name">John Childs (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/07/30/10367/donor-profile-john-childs">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$4.2 million</td><td class="ideo">Republican</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">23</td><td class="name">Plumbers and Pipefitters Union (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/12/20/11974/donor-profile-united-association">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$4.2 million</td><td class="ideo">Democratic</td></tr><tr><td class="rank">25</td><td class="name">Jerry Perenchio (<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/04/26/8733/donor-profile-jerry-perenchio">see profile</a>)</td><td class="donation">$4.1 million</td><td class="ideo">Republican</td></tr></tbody></table>

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