It's no secret that Sarah Palin is keeping her eye on the White House, but news that the fiery former VP candidate has quietly amassed a million dollar war chest sparked a fresh round of reports Monday that she is wholeheartedly engineering a 2012 presidential bid.
A disclosure form filed by Palin's political action committee SarahPAC reveals the ex-Alaska governor has raised a serious stash of funds, donating at least $87,500 to fellow Republicans whose candidacies she has endorsed over the last few months.
"We're going to really help a lot of Republican candidates get a chance to win," Tim Crawford, the committee's treasurer, told Politico.com. "And I'm glad we have the resources there for the governor to use."
Palin's contributions are being interpreted as evidence that she is building a network of Republican supporters who will return the favor when she decides to run for President.
"In politics, donations – especially donations made as a vote nears – are favors that can produce return favors, with interest, in years to come," the Christian Science Monitor reports.
And Politico reports that the filing "suggests that she has begun building a more sophisticated political operation. SarahPAC raised $866,000 in the second quarter of this year and boasted more than $1 million at the time of the filing.
Palin, who has campaigned vocally this election season for candidates she supports, made a $2500 campaign donation to support Carly Fiorina, the Republican businesswoman angling for a Senate seat in California. She also made a $2500 contribution to Nevada candidate Sharron Angle who aims to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Though Palin personally hit the campaign trail for Nikki Haley, a Tea Party favorite running for governor in South Carolina, the committee's filing does not show any contributions to Haley's campaign.
Palin announced two new endorsements Monday on Facebook and Twitter, lending her support to "mama grizzly" Ann Marie Buerkle "for New York's 25th District" and tweeting that "Getting [Karen] Handel in Georgia benefits the state and, ultimately, the entire country."
SarahPAC's filing also shows that Palin spent over $210,000 on various consulting fees last year, perhaps another indication that she is preparing for a presidential bid of her own and seeking the advice of experts to guide her.
And Palin's popularity continues to grow among voters. Crawford told Politico that 8,000 new donors have contributed in the last quarter, bringing the total number of those who have donated to 25,000.
"Essentially when we started last January, we started from scratch," Crawford said. "Now, I think we've got a pretty formidable thing going on, and it grows every day."
A disclosure form filed by Palin's political action committee SarahPAC reveals the ex-Alaska governor has raised a serious stash of funds, donating at least $87,500 to fellow Republicans whose candidacies she has endorsed over the last few months.
"We're going to really help a lot of Republican candidates get a chance to win," Tim Crawford, the committee's treasurer, told Politico.com. "And I'm glad we have the resources there for the governor to use."
Palin's contributions are being interpreted as evidence that she is building a network of Republican supporters who will return the favor when she decides to run for President.
"In politics, donations – especially donations made as a vote nears – are favors that can produce return favors, with interest, in years to come," the Christian Science Monitor reports.
And Politico reports that the filing "suggests that she has begun building a more sophisticated political operation. SarahPAC raised $866,000 in the second quarter of this year and boasted more than $1 million at the time of the filing.
Palin, who has campaigned vocally this election season for candidates she supports, made a $2500 campaign donation to support Carly Fiorina, the Republican businesswoman angling for a Senate seat in California. She also made a $2500 contribution to Nevada candidate Sharron Angle who aims to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Though Palin personally hit the campaign trail for Nikki Haley, a Tea Party favorite running for governor in South Carolina, the committee's filing does not show any contributions to Haley's campaign.
Palin announced two new endorsements Monday on Facebook and Twitter, lending her support to "mama grizzly" Ann Marie Buerkle "for New York's 25th District" and tweeting that "Getting [Karen] Handel in Georgia benefits the state and, ultimately, the entire country."
SarahPAC's filing also shows that Palin spent over $210,000 on various consulting fees last year, perhaps another indication that she is preparing for a presidential bid of her own and seeking the advice of experts to guide her.
And Palin's popularity continues to grow among voters. Crawford told Politico that 8,000 new donors have contributed in the last quarter, bringing the total number of those who have donated to 25,000.
"Essentially when we started last January, we started from scratch," Crawford said. "Now, I think we've got a pretty formidable thing going on, and it grows every day."
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