In more than 5,800 campaigns on behalf of charities that were registered with the state attorney general from 1997 to 2006, the fundraisers reported taking in $2.6 billion.
Though commercial fundraisers are required to file detailed fundraising reports with the state, many do not, and the law is not aggressively enforced because of limited staffing.
Now we have fresh evidence, straight from the highest halls of power, that the world of internships is a morally bankrupt free-for-all, a new glass ceiling in the making: the Tories have been auctioning them off at a recent fundraiser, as reported in the Mail on Sunday and called out by Jackie Ashley on Comment is Free.
"Look, this group of guys is not going to knock me off my stride," Boehner said at a private Republican fundraiser last week, reported the Hill.
The First Lady is making a campaign swing through the West on Tuesday, stopping in Salt Lake City, Utah before flying to the Aspen fundraiser, 7News reports.
Today fundraisers are reporting that it's increasingly difficult to secure new donors.
MSN wrote, "Never get between old ladies and their bingo," while the Daily Beast referred to Whaley as "the boy who cried bingo?" However, bingo theft is usually a bigger problem than falsely calling "bingo". Husband-and-wife schoolteachers in the Denver area were fired in May for allegedly stealing $25,000 from bingo fundraisers, CBS4 reported at the time.
On the Republican side are state Assemblyman K.H. "Katcho" Achadjian of San Luis Obispo and businessman/rancher Justin Fareed, who ran in 2014 and is the second-highest fundraiser to date, reporting more than $430,000.
The awkward lottery feud between between a Nova Scotia woman and her nephew has escalated after a judge froze the nephew's half of a $1.2-million 1.2-millionm a small town charity fundraiser, the National Post reports.
The Tex-Mex fast-food giant was originally slated to provide food coupons for the influential Great Salt Lake Council's Utah Scout-O-Rama fundraiser in May, reports The Salt Lake Tribune.
As an additional matter, the H.I.G./Hart Interactive representative specifically denies that Douglas Berman and Brian Schwartz were at the infamous "47percentt" Romney fundraiser in Boca Raton as reported in the piece.
