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Fundraising
- Ideas
- Garage sale, bake sale, ice cream social, car wash, dog wash, silent auction, pot luck,
- Ask for contributions at meetings and social events
- Require modest membership dues for precinct “club”
- Sell T-shirts and buttons at a small profit
- An annual event that could become a precinct tradition
- Brainstorm for ideas at precinct meetings
- Avoid Party affiliations,
since will be subject to state fundraising and ethics laws pertaining to
Parties. For example, in Texas:
- Any club or organization associated with a Party can raise or spend $500 before it has to appoint a campaign treasurer and start filing reports.
- If a club exceeds this $500 threshold in the middle of a campaign, it will be “frozen” from doing any further activity for a 60 day period.
- If you exceed the $500, the club or organization has to register as a General Purpose Committee with the Texas Ethics Commission.
- If you plan to do any activity to support or oppose a candidate for statewide office, state legislator, state Board of Education, or any multi-county district office, the club or organization has to register 30 days before the election.
- This $500 threshold is a one-time, cumulative threshold on a per election, per candidate, or per year basis.
