In recent years, win-a-visit-with-Barack (or Mitt or Ann or Joe, or Sarah Jessica Parker or Marc Anthony) sweepstakes have become a signal fund-raising tactic for both sides.
Generally speaking, the costs associated with publicizing and administering special events make them less cost effective for charities than "virtually any other fund-raising tactic," said Patrick M. Rooney, director of research at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
Experts in campaign finance issues said the fund-raising tactic was unusual for a presidential candidate but within the bounds of the campaign law as long as Mr. Edwards did not personally benefit.
Many people in the anti-captivity movement are appalled by SeaWorld's cash-raising tactic.
Missouri-based gun company MidwayUSA pioneered a fund-raising tactic called "Round-Up".
With the evening's proceeds topping out at $1.3 million, down from $2.2 million last year, the two men compared notes on fund-raising tactics.
It quickly spread into the presidential campaign, where Vice President Al Gore has already come under attack by Gov. George W. Bush of Texas for his campaign fund-raising tactics.
In the 1990s, Mr. Wertheimer called for a Justice Department investigation of the Clinton White House fund-raising tactics; in the 1980s, he set off the investigation of the so-called Keating Five, four Democratic and one Republican senators.
By Jane Mayer The New Yorker, February 3 , 1997P. 32 THE POLITICAL SCENE about dubious Democratic Party fund-raising tactics leading to the 1996 election... On the muggy afternoon of Saturday, Jun.
While investigating the Ferguson police department last year, the unit discovered that the constitutional rights of the city's black resident were routinely violated through unjustified arrests, traffic stops and predatory revenue-raising tactics.
But in November she also stopped updating her list, which had more than 320 names, according to watchdog groups, soon after one of her top bundlers, Norman Hsu, who had raised more than $800,000, was accused of fraud and questionable fund-raising tactics.
