$532,000 Of Obama Campaign Contributions Went To Fund-raising Firm

http://bostonnow.com/community/blogs/oldmole/2007/07/17/532000-of-obama-campaign-contributions-went-to-pay-cambridge-fund-raising-firm/

7/18/07

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$532,000 Of Obama Campaign Contributions Went To Pay Cambridge Fund-raising Firm

In a December 28, 2003 press release, titled “Donors Warned About Professional Funddraisers,” the office of New York State’s then-Attorney General Spitzer reported that Spitzer’s 2002 annual report on the fund-raising activities of non-profit corporations in New York State showed that “less than a third of the money raised by professional telemarketing campaigns actually goes to charity.” The New York Attorney General’s 2002 “Pennies For Charity” report also identified the Massachusetts-based Integral Resources as one of “the professional fundraisers whose campaigns yielded the least amount to charity–on average 12 percent or less of the funds raised.”

In 2002, according to Spitzer’s annual report, only $32,954 (8.4 percent) of the $393,372 that Integral Resources raised in New York State went to the non-profit charities for which it was fund-raising. Two years later, the NY Attorney General’s “Pennies For Charity’ annual report also revealed that only $135,996 (18.78 percent) of the $723,980 that Integral Resources raised in New York State in 2004 actually went to the charities for which Integral Resources was fund-raising.

Coincidentally, between April 1, 2007 and June 30,2007, the Obama for America presidential campaign paid Integral Resources $532,810 of the campaign contributions it collected, according to financial records filed at the Federal Elections Commission. Integral Resources’ corporate headquarters are located at 815 Somerville Ave. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Porter Square. The CEO of Integral Resources, Ron Rosenblith, was the chief of staff of Democratic Massachusetts Senator John Kerry’s campaign during the 1980s and also worked on Kerry’s unsuccessful 2004 prresidential campaign.

You just gave me another reason to vote against Hillary, and for Obama.

...people who support a cheating husband and a wife who needs him for validity. Desperation, a dirty fragrance.

How the very successful Obama campaign spends its money on strategic moves is pretty much up to them. They spent money on a company that offers fundraising strategy...Oh my God! How dare they!

:crazy:

:wow: ... :sarcasm:

Paranoia strikes deep I guess.

...that a Clinton supporter finds the time to post an article (with an overuse of the bold format) of a non-story to use as some way to trash the candidate and somehow make the person be persuaded to go for another candidate.

C'mon, its gonna be a long primary season.

Feel free to call a shitty article well...shitty but to ascribe motivations to any group of candidate supporters is just plain silly.

If you thought he would not, you were wrong. If this story is untrue, produce the facts and debunk it. There was more than one source so I assume it is true.

If it's a non story, why post to it? Why are you bothered?

It is not a personal attack in any way. It's a news article. News articles will be posted.
Most of the other candidates have been under the microscope before, now Sen. Obama is,

get use to it.


edsp

zing!

In fact, I believe I'll make another donation right now. :-)