He may be in last place when it comes to delegates, but when it comes to filing expense reports with the FEC, Ron Paul beats everyone.
His campaign's hyper-vigilance is notable, verging on fanatical.
Every bank fee, every 22 cents at a
FedEx [2], every $1 toll on the
Florida turnpike [3], every
$5.09 pit stop [4] at any Starbucks anywhere, every doughnut from Dunkin' Donuts and Dough Nutz -- it's all right there, itemized in the Paul campaign's copious expenditure reports. In 160 instances so far, the campaign has reported purchases costing a single dollar or less.
Last week, ProPublica examined the spending of the five presidential candidates and the major super PACs, identifying their
200 top payees. [5]