Grassley’s June fundraisers raised health care cash?
Back in June we posted about a fundraiser for Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) hosted by an alternative health lobbyist. Now the Sunlight Foundation’s Paul Blumenthal has gone back through Federal Election Commission records and looked at the money that flowed into the senator around that date, also noting another fundraiser for the senator held two days before:
From June 22 to the end of the month Sen. Grassley raised a total of $44,700…The majority of the contributions coming in during this high water mark for Sen. Grassley’s PAC fundraising came from health professional organizations, all of whom paid equal to or above the amount required for PACs to gain entrance to the fundraising parties on June 22 and June 24.
The amount raised over the final eight days in June accounts for over one-quarter of the health and insurance PAC money raised by Sen. Grassley in the second quarter. The other three quarters came over the course of 83 days. Knowing this, it appears that the two fundraisers had the desired effect.
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