The Politico takes a look at some of the things Presidential candidates are spending money on:
All this campaigning is enough to make you want a drink.
Three of the top presidential campaigns spent a combined $6,600 at liquor stores over the past three months.
That’s just one of the quirky nuggets that can be found by mining the hundreds of megabytes of new data filed with the Federal Election Commission detailing how presidential candidates raised and spent their money.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani led the way in booze buying. From April through June, the period covered by the second-quarter reports, the Republican campaign dropped $3,900, mostly at Guy’s Package Store on the Jersey Shore.
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, a Democrat, spent $2,650 on alcohol, also mostly in New Jersey, though he did pay $900 to Robert Burns Wines of Beverly Hills, Calif. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who doesn’t drink, spent $58 at Congressional Liquors in Washington.
And that’s not all:
Obama’s campaign has something of a sweet tooth, having spent $640 at the Big Scoop Ice Cream Shop in Berlin, N.H., and $55 at Mrs. Field’s Cookies in Chicago. Romney’s crew spent $143 at a Dunkin’ Donuts in Canton, Mass.
Romney also spent $15,800 on baseball tickets for the Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers and Texas Rangers.
Obama paid $1,700 for entertainment from Double Funk Crunch, a party band that boasts it has brought its combination of ’70s and ’80s dance music, Latin, hip-hop, R&B and rock to “almost every county fair in Northern California.”
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, a Democrat, paid $500 to Manhattan DJ JP Solis, whose website says he has spun for everyone from the Black Eyed Peas to past and present Democratic Sens. John F. Kerry, Sheldon Whitehouse and John Edwards, who is challenging Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The Edwards campaign didn’t list any expenses as “entertainment.” But it did report spending $370 on TiVo and DirecTV. Arizona Sen. John McCain, a Republican whose spending has been derided as excessive, spent $125 on DirecTV; Romney spent $2,000 on DirecTV and another $109 for Dish Network. Obama also spent $132 on Dish Network.
For C-Span access, of course.
