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What candidate raised $6 miilion on the Boston Tea Party's anniversary?
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Moneybomb Corie C. Whalen Charles Jay Boston Tea Party (political party) Colorado gubernatorial election, 2010
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Multiple other similar events were scheduled for several of the 2008 presidential candidates, generally in coordination with a historical date. Imagery in the November 5 fundraiser drew on the history of the revolutionary Guy Fawkes, the film "V for Vendetta", and the traditional rhyme celebrating Fawkes's plot being foiled. Unofficial drives in support of Fred Thompson, Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, and Dennis Kucinich were referred to by the media as moneybombs and seen as attempts to replicate the November 5 event. Thompson's campaign disavowed his supporters' effort, which was speculated to have failed because it had been scheduled for the day before Thanksgiving and due to lack of realtime donation tracking feedback. Neither the campaign nor the site released contemporaneous fundraising results after the fundraiser. Kucinich's supporters organized a drive on December 15, in honor of the Bill of Rights adoption. Murray Sabrin, New Jersey candidate for U.S. Senate, also repeatedly brought the moneybomb concept to his own race, as well as Jim Forsythe, candidate for New Hampshire's 1st congressional district. No fundraising drives for any campaign matched the success of the Fawkes bomb until December 16, when the moneybomb on the Boston Tea Party's anniversary, organized entirely by online volunteers, raised an amount estimated as $6.0–$6.6 million ($6 million in approved credit card receipts), from 58,407 individual contributors to Paul's campaign. This broke the November 5 record, as well as the 2004 one-day political fundraising record of John Kerry, indicating it was the largest single-day fundraiser of any kind in U.S. presidential campaign history. Professor Anthony J. Corrado, a campaign finance expert, found the event "extraordinary ... What has done is establish himself as a major candidate, and he's no longer a fringe voice. "The first political money bomb in Canada was organized by Dr. Ryan Meili during his 2009 campaign for the leadership of the Saskatchewan NDP Party. Meili set a goal of raising $10,000 and ended up raising over $12,000 in the week leading up to the leadership convention. Meili asked for donations in multiples of 34 - $3.40, $34, $340 - to reflect his age at the time he was seeking the leadership of the party. After winning the 2012 South Carolina Republican primary Newt Gingrich organized a two-day moneybomb asking supporters to fund a "knockout punch" going into Florida. 
Whalen was one of the original organizers of the Boston Tea Party Freedom Rally held on December 16, 2007, at Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts; Rand Paul was the keynote speaker at this event. Concurrent to her work with the Boston Tea Party Freedom Rally, Whalen became an organizer for Congressman Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign in Massachusetts and was also involved in launching the Boston Ron Paul Meetup Group. Although some consider 2009 the beginning of the Tea Party movement, some have stated the real roots go back to the Boston Tea Party Freedom Rally that Whalen spoke at and helped organize. In his book, "The Tea Party Goes to Washington", Paul cites the "Boston Tea Party Freedom Rally" as "the first tea party," eventually resulting in a movement that would spread across the nation and which helped propel many Republicans into elected office, including Paul himself. "Sarah Palin may be the face of the Tea Party movement today, but it started with Ron Paul in 2007. That December, on the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, Paul's presidential campaign supporters participated in a "money bomb," a one-day online fundraising blitz that raked in $6 million from 40,000 people nationwide, and drew upon the 1773 protest's anti-tax sentiments."
On Monday, June 16, 2008, Jay won the Boston Tea Party's presidential nomination at its nomination convention that was held on the national party's website online and will again be the candidate of the Personal Choice Party. His running mate was blogger and online magazine editor Thomas L. Knapp. Jay was on the ballot in Florida, Tennessee, and Colorado. Including states with no pre-election registration for write-in candidates, Jay was on the ballot or could have been written in within states with a total of 121 electors. Jay received 2,422 votes. 
Electoral history.2008 presidential election. Charles Jay was the party's first presidential nominee. He received the BTP presidential nomination in the 2008 general election. He was on the ballot in Florida, Tennessee and Colorado and was a write-in candidate in more than ten other states. Thomas L. Knapp was the party's vice presidential nominee. Knapp was also a candidate for US Congress as a Libertarian Party candidate in the same election. However, alternate running mates included Marilyn Chambers (Arkansas, Hawaii, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah), Barry Hess (Arizona), Dan Sallis, Jr. (Colorado), John Wayne Smith (Florida) and Thomas J. Marino (Washington). In the 2008 presidential election, Jay received 2,422 votes, putting him in 15th place. 
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