GOP Has IOUs
The Utah Republican Party is more than $100,000 in debt following the election this year.
It is not unusual for the party to be in debt immediately after an election, since it typically spends a bundle in the last few weeks of the campaign season to boost its candidates. But party officials say $100,000 in red ink is unusually high.
Much of the money spent in the last weeks of the campaign was for get-out-the-vote programs and candidate support and the candidates have pledged to pay the party back. Officials say that while the party's debt is in the neighborhood of $115,000, about $70,000 is owed to the party.
Interestingly, the remaining $45,000 not covered by pledges to retire the candidates' debt to the party is nearly the identical amount that the party had to pay for the vendors who provided the lighting and sound at the airport rally for President Bush's visit to Salt Lake City last summer.
Party officials at first thought the White House would pay those costs because it was deemed an official visit by the president, who spoke at the annual convention of the American Legion. But the party ended up footing the bill.
Officials say they are not worried about making up that $45,000 with future fund-raisers and donations.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
It is not unusual for the party to be in debt immediately after an election, since it typically spends a bundle in the last few weeks of the campaign season to boost its candidates. But party officials say $100,000 in red ink is unusually high.
Much of the money spent in the last weeks of the campaign was for get-out-the-vote programs and candidate support and the candidates have pledged to pay the party back. Officials say that while the party's debt is in the neighborhood of $115,000, about $70,000 is owed to the party.
Interestingly, the remaining $45,000 not covered by pledges to retire the candidates' debt to the party is nearly the identical amount that the party had to pay for the vendors who provided the lighting and sound at the airport rally for President Bush's visit to Salt Lake City last summer.
Party officials at first thought the White House would pay those costs because it was deemed an official visit by the president, who spoke at the annual convention of the American Legion. But the party ended up footing the bill.
Officials say they are not worried about making up that $45,000 with future fund-raisers and donations.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
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