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   From: damnthetorpedoes@duck.com   
      
   On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:57:05 +0000 (UTC), doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
   (The Doctor) wrote:   
      
   >In article ,   
   >=?UTF-8?B?Q29uyYDGpkNvbsmA?=   wrote:   
   >>  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯   
   >>   
   >>What can we say?  Great party . . . great leader . . .  people are   
   >>putting their money where their hearts are.   
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   >>NDP debt-free thanks to surge in online donations   
   >>CBC News Posted: Jan 14, 2014   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>  Parties battle it out in fourth-quarter fundraising	   
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   >>   
   >>The NDP led by Tom Mulcair has managed to pay off its debt from the last   
   >>election, allowing the party to start building a war chest toward the   
   >>next campaign, expected by October 2015. (   
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   >>   
   >>The NDP is assured of starting the next election campaign with money in   
   >>the bank.   
   >>   
   >>Last week, the Official Opposition paid off its debt from the 2011   
   >>election, the last of some $6.75 million that had been borrowed to   
   >>finance the campaign.   
   >>   
   >>With the next election not expected until October 2015, it's the   
   >>earliest the NDP has found itself free of debt before a campaign.   
   >>   
   >>NDP national director Nathan Rotman, said it is mostly due to the   
   >>party's success in ramping up its online donation program, with online   
   >>contributions more than doubling in the past year.   
   >>   
   >>“Now our focus will be to continue expand our fundraising as public   
   >>financing whittles down more and more each year. And start to put away a   
   >>nest egg to run a really strong campaign in 2015,â€? Rotman said.   
   >>   
   >>A taxpayer subsidy to political parties based on their share of the   
   >>popular vote will be fully phased out by next year.   
   >>   
   >>Even with some money saved, the party still expects to have to go back   
   >>to the bank for a loan for the next campaign.   
   >>   
   >>But Rotman said there has been steady growth in terms of the number of   
   >>donors and contribution amounts.   
   >>   
   >>“Our donations, which have traditionally been much smaller, are starting   
   >>to rise in line with the other parties," Rotman said.   
   >>   
   >>The number of party donors rose to 43,000 in 2012 from 22,800 in 2010.   
   >>Numbers for last year are not yet available.   
   >>   
   >>Starting the year in the black may be a milestone for the NDP, but it’s   
   >>still small potatoes compared to the powerful Conservative fundraising   
   >>machine.   
   >>   
   >>That party’s chief fundraiser, Senator Irving Gerstein, confirmed at the   
   >>Conservative convention in the fall that his party has no debt and more   
   >>than $14 million in the bank.   
   >>   
   >>The Liberals did not comment on the party's debt, but pointed to strong   
   >>fundraising in December that collected more than $2.1 million from more   
   >>than 32,000 donors.   
   >   
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