A different kind of financial deadline
Even as Congress voted today to reject the biggest financial bailout in U.S. history, lawmakers have some personal bookkeeping on their minds. Tomorrow is the official end of the third quarter of fundraising in this election year.
While official reports aren’t due to the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) until October 15, expect that in the next several days, candidates in close races to start reporting to the media about how much cash they raised during these past three months. It’s a form of sabre-rattling–unnerve your opponent by boasting about how much money you’ve got.
Certainly lawmakers have been frantically partying all month to raise as much cash as possible. I count more than 480 parties in our database for September alone. When the records finally become available from the FEC, we’ll be able to tally how much of the cash they raised this month came from the financial sector.
PARTYFINDER™ Hints
Beneficiary: congressional candidate, lawmaker, or entity which collects funds raised at party
Host: person who is hosting party-often, but not always, a registered federal lobbyist
Venue Name: where the party is
Entertainment Type: type of gathering, such as "breakfast," "ski trip," "bowling"
Other Lawmakers Mentioned: lawmakers mentioned on invitation who are used as a draw for the event
- Check out the map: http://tinyurl.com/4jykqp
- Where did members of Congress party the most in 2008? http://tinyurl.com/3p4h59
- Sen. Salazar thinking snow? http://tinyurl.com/5s4sff
- Grinch afoot in Washington? http://tinyurl.com/6l9pd5
- Who paid for (some of) the convention partying: http://tinyurl.com/63pmov
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