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LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 10:51 AM Feb 2012

Awwwww get your tissues out - Christine O'Donnell is broke!

Who would have thunk it - I mean she had almost a million left after her 2010 Senate race plus she had what was to be that best selling book she put out last August. Now she's broke again. Boohoo Boohoo



O'Donnell's political arm faces significant monetary shortfall

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20120205/NEWS02/202050334/O-Donnell-s-political-arm-faces-significant-monetary-shortfall?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Home|p

Without a big infusion of cash, Christine O'Donnell's fledgling political organization could soon go broke.

O'Donnell has burned through most of the $424,000 in campaign donations remaining from the record-setting $7.4 million she raised in her failed 2010 U.S. Senate campaign.

She has nearly exhausted her leftover funds, has reportedly had lackluster book sales and is being sued by a longtime supporter who claims she's trying to stiff him out of pay for political consulting and legal research. Her political action committee, ChristinePAC, and Senate campaign had a combined $36,100 left in the bank at the end of 2011, according to reports filed last week.

The descent of the one-time darling of the tea party has been noticed within Delaware and Washington, D.C., political circles.


Here's a thought Christine - GO HOME TO NEW JERSEY. Oh and get a real job. Geez you're my age and I'm about 2000000000 times more qualified to hold a political office then you are simply because I've held jobs, done volunteer work, had life experience, and yes even mastered my domain from time to time so to speak.

Go away!
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Awwwww get your tissues out - Christine O'Donnell is broke! (Original Post) LynneSin Feb 2012 OP
So am I Lawlbringer Feb 2012 #1
Well I guess I won't send you an invite to the O'Donnell fundraiser... LynneSin Feb 2012 #2
I wouldn't give her that unless you saw her go on that bridge and hand the guard the money to let southernyankeebelle Feb 2012 #11
LOL, but I just moved back to NY from Newark, DE Lawlbringer Feb 2012 #28
Bet she wishes she had a magic wand now. tanyev Feb 2012 #3
Isn't she a virgin or something? Doctor_J Feb 2012 #4
Maybe being broke will give her a bit of compassion for alfredo Feb 2012 #5
She could use a little "Eye of Newt" annabanana Feb 2012 #6
That would be "Eye of Mitt" since she endorsed Romney LynneSin Feb 2012 #7
Yeah, funny the suggestion that she get a real job treestar Feb 2012 #8
That campaign manager that sued her is STILL defending her in the article comment section LynneSin Feb 2012 #10
He's a serious loon jberryhill Feb 2012 #22
Can't she just wave her wand and zap herself some cash? Happyhippychick Feb 2012 #9
But, but but malaise Feb 2012 #12
When will Teabagger Republicans wake up to the fact that they are getting scammed? Ikonoklast Feb 2012 #13
Sorry to be the one to tell you this but, "yes Virgnia they are that dim". wandy Feb 2012 #27
Let her get a job! Sanity Claws Feb 2012 #14
No Randian superwoman, she. Needs to pull herself up by the bootstraps! Mayberry Machiavelli Feb 2012 #15
Obviously not a good money manager. lpbk2713 Feb 2012 #16
Must mean she is running again..... Historic NY Feb 2012 #17
Maybe Sarah Palin can give her a few pointers. Turbineguy Feb 2012 #18
How much did she pay the person who actually really wrote her book? NBachers Feb 2012 #19
I could probably get her a job cleaning houses for $10.00 an hour? notadmblnd Feb 2012 #20
"Are there no prisons? rurallib Feb 2012 #21
Double Double, Toil and Trouble...... Honeycombe8 Feb 2012 #23
She needed to win an election to pay her mortgage Motown_Johnny Feb 2012 #24
What mortgage LynneSin Feb 2012 #25
see, she needed to win to pay that mortgage Motown_Johnny Feb 2012 #26

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
2. Well I guess I won't send you an invite to the O'Donnell fundraiser...
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 10:54 AM
Feb 2012

I was hoping to raise the $4 needed so she can take the Delaware Memorial Bridge back home to New Jersey

 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
11. I wouldn't give her that unless you saw her go on that bridge and hand the guard the money to let
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 11:10 AM
Feb 2012

her through. LOL she might save that money.

Lawlbringer

(550 posts)
28. LOL, but I just moved back to NY from Newark, DE
Mon Feb 6, 2012, 12:35 PM
Feb 2012

She only has to pay to get into DE to get her stuff, leaving should cost her nothing. =op

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
4. Isn't she a virgin or something?
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 10:58 AM
Feb 2012

There is HUGE money to be made in porn, and she seems to be qualified for almost nothing else, except maybe a Fox News gig. Wait. those are the same

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
7. That would be "Eye of Mitt" since she endorsed Romney
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 11:01 AM
Feb 2012

It's funny - in the article it talks about how she met with ChristinePAC donors in Florida - all 10 of them. And outside the meeting 15 Tea Party members protested her. Her endorsement of Mittens pretty much made her a political outcast.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
8. Yeah, funny the suggestion that she get a real job
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 11:02 AM
Feb 2012

Has some teeth to it, since her "campaign skills" should be useful to various and sundry Tea Party candidates, if not Nootie himself.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
10. That campaign manager that sued her is STILL defending her in the article comment section
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 11:04 AM
Feb 2012

Really, if someone owed me $20k I'm not about to say one nice thing about them until I get my money!

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
13. When will Teabagger Republicans wake up to the fact that they are getting scammed?
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 11:25 AM
Feb 2012

I mean, really?

Are they all that dim?

No wonder the Republicans fool these idiosts so easily.

wandy

(3,539 posts)
27. Sorry to be the one to tell you this but, "yes Virgnia they are that dim".
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 04:43 PM
Feb 2012

Sadley, for the rest of us as they wear it as a badge of honer.

Sanity Claws

(21,852 posts)
14. Let her get a job!
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 11:27 AM
Feb 2012

Isn't that what the Tea Partiers say to everyone on the other side of the fence? Let them say it to the witch.

lpbk2713

(42,766 posts)
16. Obviously not a good money manager.
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 11:32 AM
Feb 2012



Someone this irresponsible with so much money is
not the type person we want holding public office.


NBachers

(17,135 posts)
19. How much did she pay the person who actually really wrote her book?
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 12:20 PM
Feb 2012

I hope that ghost author didn't count on getting a percentage of the book sales.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
23. Double Double, Toil and Trouble......
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 01:25 PM
Feb 2012

Poor Christine. She better pull out the ol' black kettle and cook herself up a potion.

 

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)
24. She needed to win an election to pay her mortgage
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 01:53 PM
Feb 2012

If only she had listened to Mitt's father.


Republicans shouldn't run if they need the money to pay their bills (paraphrased).

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
25. What mortgage
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 04:13 PM
Feb 2012

Her house (which was around the corner where I live) was foreclosed on (but not her fault she says). She lives with her parents in NJ.

 

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)
26. see, she needed to win to pay that mortgage
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 04:14 PM
Feb 2012


and I am just paraphrasing Mitt's dad


it should not be taken literally
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