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The SarahPAC numbers are in and they continue to track the slow demise of a once bright political star.

Fortunately for me there has already been some reporting on the numbers over at Roll Call.

Here is what they had to say:

Sarah PAC, reported it had receipts of $430,217 and disbursements of $461,368 during the first quarter of the year, leaving $1,086,533 cash on hand as of March 31st.

Small contributions of $200 or less, totaled $344,295. Of the $83,777 that came from 261 itemized donors giving more than $200, the largest amounts came from Florida, California, and Texas. The largest donors were Paul Ellgen, a retired scientist from Fort Myers, Florida, who gave $5,000, and Rhodora Donahue, a homemaker from Naples, Florida, who gave $5,000.

The PAC gave $56,000 to federal candidates during the first quarter, after giving only $10,000 to federal candidates in all of 2013. The PAC gave $5,000 each to Senate candidates Karen Christine Handel in Georgia, Joni Ernst in Iowa, Chris McDaniel in Mississippi, Julianne Ortman in Minnesota, Ben Sasse in Nebraska, Tim Scott in South Carolina, T.W. Shannon in Oklahoma, and Sen. Mike Lee in Utah. The PAC also gave $1,000 to leadership PAC of Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas.

The PAC gave $5,000 to House candidates Katrina Pierson in Texas, and $10,000 to Lizbeth Benacquisto in Florida.

In non-federal elections, the PAC gave $5,000 to Greg Abbott in the Texas gubernatorial primary, and $3,500 to Gov. Nikki Haley in South Carolina.

This increase in donations to candidates is undoubtedly due to criticisms over her stinginess last time around, and charges that her PAC is nothing more than a slush fund for her own personal use. Which of course it is.

A slush fund that is still being whittled away however, as she only took in $430,217, while spending $461,368. Leaving her with $1,086,533 in the kitty.

Of course she is still spending the vast majority of the money on shady expenditures. Such as over $115,000 on "consultants" of one kind or another, and just under $155,000 for some version of "postage."

She also paid $1,500 to Personal Creative for a video. And purchased copies of her own crappy book to the tune of around $20,000.

The usual list of suspects remain on the list, from Aries Petra Consulting to Northstar Strategies, As well as Timothy Crawford, Marilyn Lane, Carol Ryan, Pamela Pryor, and, of course, $13,515.70 to Clapp, Peterson, Tiemessen, Thorsness LLC.

After all SOMEBODY has to pay the lawyers to keep Tripp away from his daddy.

Of course this time around Palin has many more sources of income than simply convincing the paint chip eaters to hand over their spare change. She also has a soon to be cancelled huntin show on the Sportsman Channel, and that "Rogue TV" app thingamajig.

Good thing too, because from the looks of it she is getting a little long in the tooth to keep up this political pole dance much longer.

Update: Oops I almost forgot. Here is the link to the SarahPAC documents so you can do a little investigating of your own.

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