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- Base_Connect abstract "Base Connect, formerly called BMW Direct, is a company that specializes in direct mail fundraising for Republican political candidates in the United States. The company is owned by Kimberly Bellissimo, who started it in 2002.An affiliate of the company, BMW Lists, was in the news in October 2004 when the Providence Journal reported that Republican congressional candidate David Rogers had been paid a total of $72,000 by BMW Lists. Rogers was paid in 2003 and 2004 for selling BMW Lists the names and addresses of those who had donated to Rogers when he ran for Congress in 2002 and 2004, an unusual practice though one that was not explicitly banned by the Federal Election Commission.A number of news stories have reported that Base Connect/BMW Direct has kept a large percentage of the funds that it helps raise: In 2006, Charles A. Morse ran a brief write-in campaign to unseat U.S. Representative Barney Frank. Morse received just 145 votes in a primary and dropped out two months before the general election. BMW Direct raised more than $700,000 for the race, some of it donated well after Morse dropped out. Of the funds raised, 96 percent were paid to BMW Direct and BMW Direct's affiliates and contractors.In 2006, Deborah Honeycutt was the Republican nominee in Georgia's 13th Congressional District congressional elections. Honeycutt's campaign raised more than $1.1. million, with most of the money she raised went to BMW Direct. Honeycutt received 31 percent of the vote; David Scott, the Democratic incumbent, received 68%. In October 2008, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Honeycutt's campaign had raised $4.3 million for a rematch with Scott, with most of the money going to BMW Direct and the company's contractors, who had raised it. \"It takes money to raise money,\" Honeycutt said. Honeycutt lost again in 2008, by the same wide margin.In April 2009, in response to criticism of her firm, Bellissimo said \"We don’t get a percentage, we don’t get kickbacks. We get a set fee.\" She also said that the company didn't collect a bonus even for very successful campaigns, and \"the post office takes 40 percent off the top when you’re doing direct mail ...\"".
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- Base_Connect wikiPageWikiLink Barney_Frank.
- Base_Connect wikiPageWikiLink Category:Campaign_finance_in_the_United_States.
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- Base_Connect wikiPageWikiLink Republican_Party_(United_States).
- Base_Connect wikiPageWikiLinkText "Base Connect".
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- Base_Connect subject Category:Campaign_finance_in_the_United_States.
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- Base_Connect comment "Base Connect, formerly called BMW Direct, is a company that specializes in direct mail fundraising for Republican political candidates in the United States. The company is owned by Kimberly Bellissimo, who started it in 2002.An affiliate of the company, BMW Lists, was in the news in October 2004 when the Providence Journal reported that Republican congressional candidate David Rogers had been paid a total of $72,000 by BMW Lists.".
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