We launch an occasional column reporting on income and expenditures by third parties. If you were a donor this is Where Your Money Went.
For June, the Libertarian National Committee had $95,743 in contributions and spent $91,370. There are $10,958 in unpaid credit card charges. Of 341 itemized donors, 55 report that they are retired or words to that effect. Large donations included six donations of $500, three donations of $515, two donations of $700, three donations of $1000, and three donations of $1500 or $1545.
Salary payments (these are single payments on an apparent biweekly schedule) included $5769 to Elaine Huston, $2307 to Joshua Troxell, $2000 to Matthew Thexton, $1657 to Andrew Hreha, $1240 to Matthew Butts, $923 to Andrew Buchkovich, and collectively $13,154 for payroll tax and $329 for 401K contribution.
Robert Kraus received $2691 in salary and with his departure $11,846 in salary and accumulated vacation pay.
Services included $4500 for Oliver Hall for legal retainer, $3600 to Matthew Hudson for Graphic Design Services, $3381 to Richard Brown for parliamentary services, $2000 to Paula Edwards for FEC compliance, and $1226 to David Aiken for Civi Crm and Campaign Support.
Other expenses included $14,350 for insurance, including employee health and dental, Skvare’s software license came to $4230, the Alexandria Postmaster received $860 for postage BRE envelopes, $189 went to Authorize.net for Merchant Processing, PNC Bank received $25 as Bank Service Charges, and $20 went to FP mailing solutions for postage.
Headquarters payments totalled $5593, of which $4653 was real estate taxes.
$275 was transferred to the LP of California. Non-candidate party printing came to $231.
Thanks, George. I remember similar breakdowns years ago, and found them interesting. Glad that you’re willing to do this work!