Charitable giving and support for Georgia’s U.S. Senate Republicans in runoff elections leave DOFPAC poised for growth in 2021 after raising over $105,000 since late September
As reported last month on McHenry County Blog, the Defense of Freedom PAC (DOFPAC) continues its success as a start-up since its public launch in late September.
Former IL-14 congressional candidate Catalina Lauf is the executive director of the DOFPAC
According to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) year-end filing this month, DOFPAC (FEC Pre-Runoff report numbers listed separately):
Reporting Period | Receipts | Disbursements | Cash on Hand |
Q2 2020 (Started 6/24/20) | 5,000.00 | – | 5,000.00 |
Q3 2020 | 759.50 | 3,226.10 | 2,533.40 |
Pre-Election 10/1 thru 10/14 | 3,300.00 | 1,037.00 | 4,796.40 |
Post-Election 10/15 thru 11/23 | 86,758.24 | 55,721.57 | ……35,833.07 |
Pre-Runoff 11/24 thru 12/16 | 950.00 | 418.70 | 36,364.37 |
Year-End 12/17 – 12/31/20 | 13,694.15 | 15,278.83 | 34,779.69 |
TOTAL 6/24-12/31/20 | 110,461.89 | 75,682.20 |
Lauf issued a statement highlighting the 3 charities her DOFPAC gave year-end donations of $1,000 each:
“We supported three different veteran organizations!
“Two in the [IL-14] district (one on each end of the district) and one (HunterSeven Foundation) doing great work nationally.”
Catalina Lauf statement 1/13/21
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- Transforming Lives through Service to Veterans – https://www.tlsveterans.org/ of McHenry
- HunterSeven Foundation – https://www.hunterseven.org/ of Providence, RI
- American Legion Post 75 – https://genevapost75.org/ of Geneva, IL
In addition to the charities, DOFPAC gave two $2,500 campaign contributions to Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia for the runoff elections.
For all of 2020, DOFPAC donated to a total of 14 political campaigns.
Locally, Woodstock resident Earl Hughes gave a total of $300 for the entire 2020 calendar year. Illinois-based itemized contributions totaled an additional $750.
Small dollar contributions (less than $200) to DOFPAC made up nearly 69% of the total contributions for 2020 of $105,461.89 (from late September through end of 2020).
As noted last month, DOFPAC started with an initial investment of $5,000.
Information can be accessed for DOFPAC by clicking here.
But since she’s banned from so many platforms wtf?
It was an honor to have campaigned for you.
I hope
You are on the right track.
Keep in touch; for we need people like you to defend freedom.
Lauf makes me laugh