links for 2010-07-13

Sarah Palin is playing in this year’s elections more than just with her speeches and tweets. She’s using money to help those candidates she believes in.

According to a Federal Elections Commission report filed Sunday, Palin’s Political Action Committee, Sarah PAC, has raised $1.3 million so far this year and has about $1 million in cash with which to try and help candidates Palin supports get elected this fall.

One of those candidates is Carly Fiorina, who Palin endorsed in May before the three-way Republican primary for the chance to take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.According to the FEC report, of the $87,500 in contributions Palin has doled out so far to 21 House and Senate hopefuls, she gave $2,500 to Fiorina. Of the 529 contributions Palin’s PAC took in during this past quarter, 57 of them were from Californians and two were reported from Orange County donors.
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Endorsement was worth far more than the $2,500

California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina on Monday questioned why the Obama administration is not suing San Francisco for its sanctuary policies on illegal immigrants.

The Republican, trying to unseat Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, suggested the federal government engaged in political posturing when it sued Arizona over its law on illegal immigrants.

"If the federal government wants to take the point of view that the Obama administration and Attorney General Eric Holder seem to be taking, which is all immigration issues are federal government issues and therefore we will challenge any authority, then they ought to be applying that standard consistently and they clearly are not," Fiorina said during an interview with KCBS radio and CBS-5 in San Francisco.

Fiorina supports Arizona's law, which requires law enforcement officers to question a person's immigration status if there is reasonable suspicion they are in the country illegally.
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Obama is not enforcing the law.