<![CDATA[Campaign contributions]]>So be honest, has anyone here contributed to a candidate or a political party in the last 10 years and do you plan on doing it for this election cycle?

And tell us who if you've got the stones.

WSS

]]>https://brownsboard.com/topic/43856/campaign-contributionsRSS for NodeThu, 01 Oct 2026 12:39:56 GMTTue, 23 Aug 2016 12:47:32 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Campaign contributions on Fri, 26 Aug 2016 17:44:25 GMT]]>Ditto...

Until tomorrow... as in I'm outta here... not decide tomorrow...

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@tour2ma said:

('Cause one is never quite sure if one is using "whom" proprerly?)

Apologizes to my stones brother... missed your "coming out" post... 🙂

No offense taken at all.

Still haven't decided where to send money this time or at all.

WSS

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@westside-steve said:

I think I told everybody when and for whom I've donated didn't I? I have not donated for a while and trying to decide now if I should and if so to whom.

(Why is it unsettling that I used the word whom twice?)

('Cause one is never quite sure if one is using "whom" proprerly?)

Apologizes to my stones brother... missed your "coming out" post... 🙂

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@gftchris said:

You could probably add a tinfoil lining and make a killing.

Go away faggy brit.

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@tour2ma said:

  • Apparently I'm the only one with "stones" (or only one to contribute to a campaign ever).
  • Someone has to pay for Trump's "Cabinet" room... corner floor space on a top floor in Manhattan ain't cheap... and then there's the yuge mahogany(?) meeting table... someone is paying for that... someone in addition to the poor schlub in the unfinished basement (Is that even to code?).
Trump campaign HQ employees have increased like 20% (low 70-something to mid-80's IIRC) while the tab for Tower space has quadrupled. Small taters in the grand scheme? Sure, but Trump surrogate answers aren't making sense.

Speaking of "cabinet room"... as far back as the GOP convention word was Trump would announce his major cabinet nominees. Has he?

I think I told everybody when and for whom I've donated didn't I? I have not donated for a while and trying to decide now if I should and if so to whom.

(Why is it unsettling that I used the word whom twice?)

WSS

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/628779https://brownsboard.com/post/628779Wed, 24 Aug 2016 22:16:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Campaign contributions on Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:35:26 GMT]]>Well, higgardly the scum isn't man OR woman enough to have a hat at all.

A hat would further scramble her screwed up brain waves, and weigh her feeble

self down to having to be carried up stairs on a strecher.

Maybe she's slowly turning into a zombie.

enhanced-buzz-1077-1320040990-9.jpg

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/628665https://brownsboard.com/post/628665Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:35:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Campaign contributions on Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:57:54 GMT]]>You could probably add a tinfoil lining and make a killing.

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@calfoxwc said:

crap. Now I may have to buy five as an investment !

lol... check how many have been sold first...

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/628641https://brownsboard.com/post/628641Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:55:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Campaign contributions on Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:27:31 GMT]]>crap. Now I may have to buy five as an investment !

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@calfoxwc said:

I need to go buy a Trump hat.

If Trump wins the hat will have a lot of historical value regardless, as the icon of perhaps the most unconventional campaign ever. The type of stuff students would study forever.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/628605https://brownsboard.com/post/628605Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:56:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Campaign contributions on Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:55:06 GMT]]>We don't donate $$$$$ to conservative campaigns... we donate to more local causes.

You know where the money goes, and the impact is far greater. I campaigned for

George W. twice, the only time I ever have actually helped a campaign.

Our Constitution is at stake, corruption in dems is rampant, corruption in our gov is all over the obaMao

federal level, Bloomberg and Soros etc etc, are calling the shots for liberal media and liberal

anti groups. They are trying to buy control of America.

I need to go buy a Trump hat.

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@tour2ma said:

  1. Apparently I'm the only one with "stones" (or only one to contribute to a campaign ever).
  2. Someone has to pay for Trump's "Cabinet" room... corner floor space on a top floor in Manhattan ain't cheap... and then there's the yuge mahogany(?) meeting table... someone is paying for that... someone in addition to the poor schlub in the unfinished basement (Is that even to code?).

Trump campaign HQ employees have increased like 20% (low 70-something to mid-80's IIRC) while the tab for Tower space has quadrupled. Small taters in the grand scheme? Sure, but Trump surrogate answers aren't making sense.

Speaking of "cabinet room"... as far back as the GOP convention word was Trump would announce his major cabinet nominees. Has he?

I think I heard that he had picked a bunch of industry types for cabinet spots but I could be off.

Edit: No picks yet just banter about who might get positions.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-cabinet-picks-include-christie-carson-giuliani-article-1.2722248

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  • Apparently I'm the only one with "stones" (or only one to contribute to a campaign ever).
  • Someone has to pay for Trump's "Cabinet" room... corner floor space on a top floor in Manhattan ain't cheap... and then there's the yuge mahogany(?) meeting table... someone is paying for that... someone in addition to the poor schlub in the unfinished basement (Is that even to code?).

    • Trump campaign HQ employees have increased like 20% (low 70-something to mid-80's IIRC) while the tab for Tower space has quadrupled. Small taters in the grand scheme? Sure, but Trump surrogate answers aren't making sense.

    Speaking of "cabinet room"... as far back as the GOP convention word was Trump would announce his major cabinet nominees. Has he?

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    @westside-steve said:

    So be honest, has anyone here contributed to a candidate or a political party in the last 10 years and do you plan on doing it for this election cycle?

    And tell us who if you've got the stones.

    WSS

    I don't donate to parties or candidates. Might be able to tolerate a candidate more than others but I like none of them enough to burden my wallet with helping their campaign.

    ]]>    https://brownsboard.com/post/628449https://brownsboard.com/post/628449Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:47:13 GMT    <![CDATA[Reply to Campaign contributions on Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:26:12 GMT]]>Since Trump started taking outside contributions he has shed staff and increased the rent on the same space fivefold. But, of course, being a Trump property it must be lavishly appointed:

    trump-campaign-office.jpeg John McEntee, John John McEntee, a staffer for Donald Trump's 2016 Republican presidential campaign, works at his desk inside the Trump campaign headquarters located in Trump Tower in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. Photographer: Ali Elkin/Bloomberg via Getty Images[/caption]

    This image is not a parody.

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    @oldbrownsfan said:

    The ace in the hole for Trump has always been how terrible of a presidential candidate Clinton is....

    And vice versa. And isn't that just a little bit depressing. 90% of people will be voting for a candidate based on not wanting the other one.

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    @bbedward said:

    There's sacrifices you have to make when you don't take all that special interest money. Every stupidly rich person in the country has donated the maximum to Hillary's campaign - many going beyond that to super PACs.

    Still, they're in a virtual tie and Trump is trending upwards. Will likely take a solid lead in the next couple rounds of polls in the wake of more Clinton scandal hitting the news.

    The ace in the hole for Trump has always been how terrible of a presidential candidate Clinton is....she had trouble putting away an unknown old socialist in the primaries....and Trump running such a bad campaign to this point and still being competitive only shows how weak Clinton is....

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    @oldbrownsfan said:

    Trump spent four times as much on hats than he did on campaign organization LOL!

    Trump skeptics are laughing at what was discovered in their most recent finance reporting as evidence that Trump is just not very serious about actually winning.

    From Politico:

    Meanwhile, spending on the 84-person staff and field organizing barely increased from the previous month, to just $392,000 and $432,000, respectively. The campaign dropped much more — $1.8 million — on hats and other merchandise.
    By comparison, the Hillary Clinton campaign in July spent $2.9 million on its 703-person payroll and $25.8 million on media.

    Does that sound like he’s more interested in winning the election, or spreading his “brand”? Hillary is still beating him in funding, even though he has all that “star power” and supposed brilliance in marketing:

    http://therightscoop.com/trump-spent-four-times-as-much-on-hats-than-he-did-on-campaign-organization-lol/

    There's sacrifices you have to make when you don't take all that special interest money. Every stupidly rich person in the country has donated the maximum to Hillary's campaign - many going beyond that to super PACs.

    Still, they're in a virtual tie and Trump is trending upwards. Will likely take a solid lead in the next couple rounds of polls in the wake of more Clinton scandal hitting the news.

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    @oldbrownsfan said:

    Meanwhile, spending on the 84-person staff and field organizing barely increased from the previous month, to just $392,000 and $432,000, respectively.

    That is the disturbing thing for Trump folk... or at least it should be... no ground game. Apparently they are satisfied with looking to the RNC for all this and that has not been the way it's done.

    Florida has one office? Office's don't have supplies of yard signs and pamphlets...

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    @westside-steve said:

    So be honest, has anyone here contributed to a candidate or a political party in the last 10 years and do you plan on doing it for this election cycle?

    And tell us who if you've got the stones.

    OOooooo... a "stones" challenge...

    Three donations in the 2012 cycle: Obama, Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren... tried to make a 4th to Claire McCaskill, but she wasn't taking Discover.

    Prior to your time window I made a couple including Bush's 2000 campaign...

    ]]>    https://brownsboard.com/post/628346https://brownsboard.com/post/628346Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:46:56 GMT    <![CDATA[Reply to Campaign contributions on Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:44:24 GMT]]>Trump spent four times as much on hats than he did on campaign organization LOL!

    Trump skeptics are laughing at what was discovered in their most recent finance reporting as evidence that Trump is just not very serious about actually winning.

    From Politico:

    Meanwhile, spending on the 84-person staff and field organizing barely increased from the previous month, to just $392,000 and $432,000, respectively. The campaign dropped much more — $1.8 million — on hats and other merchandise.
    By comparison, the Hillary Clinton campaign in July spent $2.9 million on its 703-person payroll and $25.8 million on media.

    Does that sound like he’s more interested in winning the election, or spreading his “brand”? Hillary is still beating him in funding, even though he has all that “star power” and supposed brilliance in marketing:

    http://therightscoop.com/trump-spent-four-times-as-much-on-hats-than-he-did-on-campaign-organization-lol/

    ]]>    https://brownsboard.com/post/628341https://brownsboard.com/post/628341Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:44:24 GMT    <![CDATA[Reply to Campaign contributions on Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:41:08 GMT]]>Maybe the staff gets paid a lot more for running a general election campaign over a primary campaign.

    Still $169,000 is peanuts.

    ]]>    https://brownsboard.com/post/628340https://brownsboard.com/post/628340Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:41:08 GMT    <![CDATA[Reply to Campaign contributions on Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:38:52 GMT]]> REPORT: Is Trump getting RICH off his campaign for president? Looks that way…

    – Running for president is good for Donald Trump’s bottom line.
    The real estate mogul jacked up the rent on his own presidential campaign, billing it more than four times the previous cost for its use of Trump Tower, once the dough wasn’t coming out of his own pocket , according to a new report.
    In March, the campaign shelled out $35,458, but by July, the rent ballooned to $169,758, according to the Huffington Post.
    The reason for difference, the site claims, is that in March the mogul was mainly self-funding his primary presidential campaign.
    But in July, the Trump campaign transitioned to using outside funds to finance the campaign.
    And during that period, employees and consultants on the Trump campaign declined — going from 197 in March to 172 in July, according to the report.
    “If I was a donor, I’d want answers,” an Republican National Committee member told the Huffington Post. “If they don’t have any more staff, and they’re paying five times more? That’s the kind of stuff I’d read and try to make an (attack) ad out of it.”
     
    Trump campaign's rent in Trump Tower, via
     
    March: $35,458
    May: $72,800
    June: $110,684
    July: $169,758
    ?

    Maybe there’s a good reason for this? I don’t know. But it sure looks like Trump is trying to fatten his wallet on campaign funds coming in from other sources.

    Why else would you raise the cost that much?

    http://therightscoop.com/report-is-trump-getting-rich-off-his-campaign-for-president-looks-that-way/

    ]]>    https://brownsboard.com/post/628339https://brownsboard.com/post/628339Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:38:52 GMT    <![CDATA[Reply to Campaign contributions on Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:28:54 GMT]]>Donated to Trump in the form of a hat purchase.

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