"As Congressional Republicans headed into the last few weeks before Election Day, they opened a special joint fundraising committee to collect large checks from corporate CEOs in an effort to pick up as many Democratic seats as possible.
The result was phenomenal: Not since the 2002 ban on soft money have so few outside donors given so much money to a candidate-based fund.
This two-and-half-week experiment, called the Founders Joint Candidate Committee, collected nearly $1.2 million from about 30 families, according to a CQ MoneyLine study of campaign finance records. These receipts translate to an astounding average of $31,170 per donor — the most to any such organization in history."
GOP 2010 Joint Committee Got Large Checks
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