Obama Campaign won't reveal fundraising numbers

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to supporters during a fundraiser at Navy Pier, April 14, 2011, in Chicago.

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Pres. Obama's re-election campaign won't be disclosing how much money is taken in at the individual fundraising events attended by Pres. Obama. Neither will the Democratic National Committee.

An official says it's the same policy by which the Obama Campaign operated in the 2008 election cycle.

Fundraising numbers have to be filed with the Federal Election Commission, but often not until weeks later - and the FEC documents don't itemize amounts raised at specific fundraising events.

The Obama Campaign is not the first to adopt such a policy, although Pres. Bush's re-election operation in 2004 freely disclosed how much money was taken in at individual events.

The Obama Campaign thinks the release of such information might be akin to divulging strategic political information that opponents could use to discern levels of support.

Obama heads to Chicago for first fundraisers for his 2012 campaign

Pres. Obama often trumpets that his White House is more transparent and open than any other. But it's clear he does not apply that approach to his political fund-raising.

The president attended three fundraisers last Thursday in Chicago. His political operation revealed the price range of tickets, from $100 to $35,800 per person, and also disclosed the number of people in attendance. But it declined to provide an official estimate of how much money would be raised. Reporters could try to estimate the amounts.

Pres. Obama heads west Wednesday on a three-day trip to California and Nevada during which he'll be attending six fundraising events for his re-election.

[lily777]

There is still an on going investigation into his campaign funds from the last Obama election---he just hired a bunch of lawyers, but where is that story---curious isn't it?

[McJen50]

Transparency for thee, but not for me. I keep asking WHY this guy needs a billion dollars to run for re-election if he's been so damn great for the nation, and with no apparent GOP entity to run against. All I'm hearing are crickets. Pretty much the same crickets that chirped when some were asking about all the overseas bundling that came into his 2008 campaign in the months before the general election.
"The Obama Campaign thinks the release of such information might be akin to divulging strategic political information that opponents could use to discern levels of support." Either that or they don't want to disclose how much money they are taking from terrorist groups.

(weaselzippers)

[lily777]

He is just a money grubbing elitist that has always been too wealthy to understand the financial woes of 90% of Americans.While poverty, unemployment and underemployment plague our country, while children are homeless and hungry--he goes to his sickeningly wealthy, money grubbing elitist friends from wall street and the bankers he grew up around to beg for billions to spend on his next campaign. No time for visiting the soldiers he continues to send into harms way or the the people in the latest areas destroyed by wicked weather---He is really a shallow and quite embarrassing example of an educated fool!!!

[nottblu]

just more of that promised transparency.

[crazyname]

So media dig it up, along with his real birth certificate, and whole you are at it, go after all the lies he is spewing in his re-election campaign, and also get on him for sitting on his skinny black/white butt doing nothing but presenting partisan speaches. Thought he was looking for both sides to come together. I guess that only happens when he wants something he sholdn't have.

[nottblu]

user, your daily claims are as valid as stating leftwing extremists like yourself are Americas Al Qeada, the crapp you spew is just that. Apparently you have never had contact with true Klansmen or witnessed first hand any barbaric acts they perpetrate.

[crazyname]

Why doesn't our useless president have a town meedint with adults, tax payers, people that pay for all his vacations, plane rides and expensive whitehousemeals. Instead he goes to college campuses where kids still live off their oarents, and seeing a president is a big deal. Wait until they graduate and there are no jobs na they have to live with mama and daddy while they pay off the kids collega loans on unemploymnet!

Just another Obamaism. make a speach fullof untruths and some flat out lies, and uninfomed listeners eat it up! What a hel lof a way to run a country!

[1stlttightwad]

During the last election millions of dollars were donated using prepaid credit cards under the $200.00 disclosure rule of donors. This has to be changed. We can no longer have to worry about the source of money that can sway the outcome of elections. Since we don't know the source, is it China, Russia, North Korea, Venezueala, al Queda? All of which would like to have a say in our government. How do we know that they don't? Why wouldn't they spend millions to support a man that they feel can be controled, manipulated, and won't stand up to them in any instance. From their point of view it's a lot cheaper and a good return on their investment. For this reason alone we must have true transparity of donations received. Under Obama his transparity promise has been broken time and time again. Ahhh, how sweet it is....the best president money can buy. Wanna refund?

[slatep]

This should come as a surprise to no one.

With our economy in the toiletI wouldn't want anyone to know who was paying $35,800 a plate at my fundraiser either.

This in combination with Obama saying he plans to raise $1 BILLION for his 2012 election campaign is proof positive that the election is already bought and paid for.

Obama is a an extraordinarily good orater.

He is also an extremely good liar.

He also makes an extremely good puppet with Soros, huge corporations, unions and oil companies pulling his strings.

The only promise he made that he actually kept was the disastrous Health Care Bill he shoved down the Americans throat.

One campaign promise he broke was a transparent government, and he promptly turned around and bribed and made closed door deals with members of Congress to get it passed.

I don't understand how even one person could vote for him in 2012.

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

I think it's about time for Americans to start learning from their past mistakes.

This applies to the election or re-election of Congressmen and Senators as well.

[AF305]

If your hero cannot live up his own words, why is he your hero? No one made Barrack Obama say he would have a new transparency, he decided that on his own. Now, wait, not now but again, he goes back on his words, and the mighty sound of silence echos in the halls of newsrooms, and the bastions of liberals everywhere. Cue crickets.

[RobAla]

President Obama and Nancy Pelosi, locked arm in arm. She didn't want to disclose what was in the disastrous health care law before anyone could vote on it. Where did all that transparent hope and change administration go? It never showed up.