Buddy Roemer, currently seeking the Americans Elect presidential nomination, recently received $185,470.11 in federal primary season matching funds. See this FEC presss release. He had previously received $100,000 in matching funds. So far no one else running for President this year has qualified.
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Edited By Richard Winger
The matching funds system is broken but I’m very glad that Roemer is taking this route. Just the fact that some people are willing to spend any amount to win the Presidency calls into question their motives, in my mind.
How close are Gary Johnson and Jill Stein to qualifying?
Hmmmmmm Very good for Roemer. Perhaps I need to ask for the same. Donations anyone? http://mealer2012.com
ALSO SEE http://us.topnewstoday.org/us/article/1970927/
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Jill Stein keeps her progress on getting ballot lines and on meeting the matching funds threshold on her website, in handy map-graphic form. See:
http://www.jillstein.org/
Be sure to contribute while you are there.
In order to receive those matching funds, Buddy Roemer had to receive a minimum number of donations from several different states, totaling a minimum amount. All of those donations were received while he was running as a Republican for the Republican nomination.
If the people who gave the donations, and I was one, would have known that he was going to switch to a third party– the secret big money financed Americans Elect — and be running against the Republican nominee, would they have made their donation? I would not have given the donation if I had known that he would do that.
It is wrong for Roemer to receive donations and then $285K in matching funds to use in his campaign against the Republican party when he received those donations and those matching funds on the false representation that he was operating a Republican party campaign. Anyone who receives donations while campaigning in one party should not be able to use those donations as the basis for matching funds and then use the original donations and the matching funds to run a campaign in another party.
If you would like to learn more about Buddy Roemer, go to this website and read the comments by Buddy’s supporters and a critic. Also examine the web pages they cite, which will provide you with independent analysis.
http://fantasypoliticsusa.com/?p=5604