Obama campaign has spent $2.3 million on legal warfare

Perkins Coie is one of the Obama reelection campaign’s biggest vendors, generating just under $2.3 million in legal bills – a number that is bound to shoot up even higher as Obama’s legal warfare escalates between now and Election Day.

Pasted from a spreadsheet, below are my rough notes showing how I came up with the figure:

Expenditures by payee (Perkins Coie) according to Federal Election Commission website

Obama Aug 2012 monthly
http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2012/M8/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html
111,282.63
July monthly
http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2012/M7/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html
218,427.02
June monthly
http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2012/M6/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html
147,960.43
May monthly
http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2012/M5/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html
146,663.73
April monthly
http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2012/M4/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html
201,199.13
March monthly
http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2012/M3/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html
317,707.53
February monthly
http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2012/M2/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html
257,042.32
2012 subtotal 1,400,282.79 1,400,282.79
Year-End 2011 (4Q 2011)
http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2011/YE/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html
168,367.29
3Q 2011
http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2011/Q3/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html
248,953.65
2Q 2011
http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2011/Q2/C00431445/B_PAYEE_C00431445.html
101,838.31
1Q 2011
http://query.nictusa.com/pdf/954/11930700954/11930700954.pdf#navpanes=0
Jan. 31 1137.5
Feb. 11 69589.54
9-Mar 7781.8
9-Mar 69042.4
9-Mar 1137.5
9-Mar 12255.5
9-Mar 170
9-Mar 3894
2011 subtotal 684,167.49 684,167.49
2011 + 2012 subtotal 2,084,450.28
Debts by vendor, August 2012
http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2012/M8/C00431445/D_DEBTS_C00431445.html
201,221.17 201,221.17 201,221.17

subtotal 2,084,450.28
total 2,285,671.45