Quote: (07-31-2012 05:41 PM)Blackhawk Wrote:
Your max campaign contribution is $400. And the Gallo family has all 16 family members, even 6 month old babies, make the max contribution to both parties each year. "To buy access." That's a total of $6,400 to each party. Big whoop.
Where do you get $400?
http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/citiz...l#how_much
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An individual may give a maximum of:
$2,500 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.
$30,800 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.
$117,000 total biennial limit. This biennial limit places a ceiling on your total contributions, as explained below.
$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.
Furthermore, there are SuperPACS, which have way more lax contribution limits, hence the importance of Citizens United
But back to the point, I'm going to make a guess and infer that MikeCF finds it funny that so many "anarcho-capitalists", libertarians, and political-newbs are so quick to defend the people who get the most out of our system, while the rest of us lay around wondering wtf is going on.
Newport Beach showed itself for what it is (ie. GOP central) by taking this step to go beyond typical convention of a wealthy city to demand something that a proud city would never demand. Having a President come to your city is usually an honor, but in our age of childish partisanship, we have to watch tradition/culture break down over dumb games.