Former (fired) FBI Director and James Comey and his wife have maxed out their campaign contributions to presidential candidate Sen. Amy! Klobuchar (D-Minn.)
Amy Klobuchar
Total haul: $8,832,322, including $3.6 million transferred from other PACs and committees
Total raised from individual contributions: $5,232,376
Percent from donors giving $200 or less: 35 percent
Total spent: $1,849,949
Cash on hand: $6,982,373
Notable donors: Former FBI head James Comey and his wife, Patrice; Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf; Disney Television Studios and ABC Entertainment chairwoman Dana Walden; Zynga founder Mark Pincus
Notable expenditure: $4,613.04 on office supplies. (Binders? Post-It notes? Who can say.)
She sounds delightful:
The run-up to Klobuchar’s expected presidential campaign launch on Sunday was sidetracked by former aides, speaking anonymously for fear of retribution, who described a toxic office environment including demeaning emails, thrown office supplies and requests for staff to perform personal chores for the senator. It’s a sharp departure from the public brand that Klobuchar has built to get to this moment: a pragmatic, aw-shucks Minnesotan who gets things done and wins her state by landslide margins.
Here are some other notable contributors to the 2020 candidates:
Bernie: Brandi Carlile, Danny DeVito, Norah Jones, former Vampire Weekend member Rostam Batmanglij, Jackson Browne, Susan Sarandon
Warren: Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and his husband, Sean Eldridge; Jackson Browne
Kamala: Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, (Rolling Stone leaves it out, but this duo are in a bit of legal trouble for buying their kid into college. RS did include some nasty info about Trump’s donors.) Darren Aronofsky, Elizabeth Banks, Reese Witherspoon, Eva Longoria, Jenny Lewis, J.J. Abrams, Ben Affleck, Quincy Jones
Gillibrand: Reese Witherspoon, Connie Britton, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg
Robert Francis O’Rourke: Willie Nelson, Phil Lesh, Anna Wintour, Richard Linklater
Corey Booker: Jon Bon Jovi, New Jersey governor Phil Murphy, former Google chairman Eric Schmidt, PayPal founder Dan Schulman, Joel Madden, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Bacon, Orlando Bloom, and actress Rosario Dawson
Mayor Pete: James Murdoch (son of Rupert), Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice, entertainer Mandy Moore and her husband Taylor Goldsmith of the band Dawes, Ryan Reynolds, the novelist Jeffrey Eugenides, actor Bradley Whitford