Examples of bundlers in the following topics:
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Sources of Campaign Funding
- One consequence of the limitation upon personal contributions from any one individual is that campaigns seek out "bundlers"—people who can gather contributions from many individuals in an organization or community and present the sum to the campaign.
- Campaigns often recognize these bundlers with honorary titles and, in some cases, exclusive events featuring the candidate.
- During the 2008 campaign, the six leading primary candidates (three Democratic, three Republican) had listed a total of nearly two thousand bundlers.
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Regulating Congressional Lobbyists
- There have been issues raised about what constitutes the difference between a lobbyist and a bundler.
- One report described bundlers as "supporters who contribute their own money to a campaign and solicit it from others. " There was a question whether such persons were really lobbyists involved with raising campaign monies for the election of Barack Obama, and whether Obama had broken his own pledge not to receive money from lobbyists.