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How’s the money used?
It's used to get out our message. It’s used for advertising, events and outreach. It’s never used personally and it’s always reported to the FEC. Last election cycle Erik Paulsen reported about 6 million dollars in spending. That’s triple the reported spending of the DFL candidate.
I’m not shooting for six million dollars. (Because I’m not an out-of-touch do-nothing multi-millionaire. I know how to stretch a dollar.) But we’re shooting for enough to get every door knocked, every phone rung and every voice heard. We’re going to beat Do-Nothing Erik Paulsen for pennies on the dollar. But we need your help. And we need your pennies. Contribute today and send intelligent, goal-oriented leadership to Washington.'
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Why a $500 limit?
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No one person (or small group of people) should have, or believe they have, financial influence greater than others. So while America's legal donation limit is actually in the thousands, I won't be accepting donations larger than $500.
Now because of the donation mechanisms, the platform will allow larger donations. But that means I've got to try ad track you down and write you back a check for the difference.
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We are a small donation campaign. We will win with the majority and we will serve the majority. So with that in mind, we will be raising money from the majority. Not a select group of wealthy donors and absolutely no PACs.
FEC Contribution Limits
An individual may give a maximum of:
$2,700 per election to a Federal candidate or the candidate's campaign committee.2 Notice that the limit applies separately to each election. Primaries, runoffs and general elections are considered separate elections.
$5,000 per calendar year to a PAC. This limit applies to a PAC (political action committee) that supports Federal candidates. (PACs are neither party committees nor candidate committees. Some PACs are sponsored by corporations and unions--trade, industry and labor PACs. Other PACs, often ideological, do not have a corporate or labor sponsor and are therefore called nonconnected PACs.) PACs use your contributions to make their own contributions to Federal candidates and to fund other election-related activities.
$10,000 per calendar year to a State or local party committee. A State party committee shares its limits with local party committees in that state unless a local committee's independence can be demonstrated.
$33,400 per calendar year to a national party committee. This limit applies separately to a party's national committee, House campaign committee and Senate campaign committee.
$100 in currency (cash) to any political committee. (Anonymous cash contributions may not exceed $50.) Contributions exceeding $100 must be made by check, money order or other written instrument.
