{"id":217350,"date":"2010-01-20T15:40:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.opensecrets.org,2010:\/news\/\/8.1322"},"modified":"2010-01-21T19:00:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:00:57","slug":"scott-brown-a-profilic-campaign-fund-raiser-but-a-stingy-fund-giver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217350","title":{"rendered":"Scott Brown a Profilic Campaign Fund-Raiser, But a Stingy Fund-Giver"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"scottbrown2.jpg\"Republican Scott Brown, elected Tuesday<\/a> as Massachusetts’ newest U.S. senator, is notable for his prolific political fund-raising, reportedly generating<\/a> millions upon millions of dollars from supporters during an abbreviated campaign.<\/p>\n

He accomplished this through online channels — something with which the GOP has struggled. Politico<\/em>‘s Ben Smith reports<\/a> that Brown adviser Patrick Ruffini today announced his boss hauled in eight figures, proudly tweeting<\/a>: “$12 million, is I believe, the biggest online fundraising event for any statewide candidate, R or D, ever.”<\/p>\n

We won’t know what the official, final, end-of-story campaign finance numbers are in this race until mid-February, after post-election Federal Election Commission<\/a> filings are released.<\/p>\n

But we do know this: Brown himself has made just one donation to a federal political candidate in the past 20 years — $250 in 2001 to Republican congressional candidate Jo Ann Sprague, a Center for Responsive Politics<\/a> analysis indicates.<\/p>\n

That may be because Brown will enter the U.S. Senate as perhaps one of its poorer members — relatively speaking, at least.<\/p>\n

A Massachusetts personal financial disclosure form<\/a> Brown filed in 2008 indicates his annual income fell between $60,000 and $100,000, and he reported owning interests in time shares and property valued in the low six figures. He also reported owing up to $100,000 on his home mortgage.<\/p>\n

The average net worth of a U.S. senator, meanwhile, is $13.98 million, based on the Center’s analysis<\/a> of 2008 personal financial disclosures of Senate members. And more than a fifth of U.S. senators in 2008 reported personal wealth of at least $3.5 million. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican Scott Brown, elected Tuesday as Massachusetts’ newest U.S. senator, is notable for his prolific political fund-raising, reportedly generating millions upon millions of dollars from supporters during an abbreviated campaign. He accomplished this through online channels — something with which the GOP has struggled. Politico‘s Ben Smith reports that Brown adviser Patrick Ruffini today announced his boss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3994,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}