Santorum's committee, America's Foundation, brought in nearly $800,000 from January 2007 to March 31, campaign finance reports show. The committee donated $19,500, or 2.4%, to candidates.
Frist's Volunteer Political Action Committee, known as VOLPAC, raised more than $900,000 from January 2007 to May 31. The committee kept two-thirds of the money and the rest went to its division helping Tennessee state candidates, according to state and federal campaign finance records. Together, the VOLPAC committees donated $26,500, or 2.9% of the total raised, to other political committees.
So, where's the money going? Good question...one that donors might want to know.
America's Foundation spent $263,599 on direct mail expenses since the beginning of last year, according to CQ MoneyLine, a nonpartisan group that tracks campaign finance data.
The PAC's second largest expense — $150,218 — was for management fees, many of that paid to former campaign staffers. Of that, $113,320 went to Capitol Resource Group, which is headed by Rob Bickhart, who is also executive director of America's Foundation and once served as Santorum's fundraising chairman during his re-election campaign. An additional $20,000 went to Mark Rodgers, who was Santorum's chief of staff.
The PAC's staff, Davis said, had many responsibilities, including managing Santorum's media requests, developing and maintaining a website, and overseeing fundraising. Davis, a former Santorum Senate staffer, has been paid $20,217 through March 31.
Similarly, VOLPAC spent nearly $825,000 on overhead in 2007 and the first quarter of this year, records show. Nearly $76,000 of that went to firms connected to Catignani, a longtime fundraiser for Frist, and $35,000 more went to Brian Kennedy, a former Iowa GOP chairman who headed VOLPAC's Iowa operations in 2006 while Frist was mulling a possible presidential run.
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