http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/time-to-count-the-doughnuts/
Time to Count the Doughnuts
By Sam Roberts and Griffin Palmer
If your eyes glazed over at revelations that Hillary Rodham Clinton used $1,200 from her campaign war chest to splurge on Dunkin' Donuts http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/us/politics/22clinton.html , that expense turns out to be just the icing on the cake.
An hourlong investigation by The New York Times has found, in the 10 months ending in January, that the Clinton campaign reported expenditures of $1,884.83 at Dunkin' Donuts in New Hampshire and Florida (which she won) and in Virginia (which she didn't), and $504.02 at Krispy Kreme stores in South Carolina (which she also lost). So much for dollars to doughnuts. Or just desserts.
Her bakery bills totaled $5,950.53 (at Dunkin' prices, about 12,000 doughnuts). Andrea Rowell, assistant manager at the Dunkin' Donuts in Concord, N.H., where the campaign spent $273 one day last month, said the workers ordered coffee, too. "It wasn't just doughnuts," she said.
The second biggest bakery spender was Christopher J. Dodd: $3,301.22 in Washington and Jersey City. Barack Obama's campaign invested $723.64 at a dozen Dunkin' Donuts outlets and $1,877.28 at all bakeries. John Edwards dipped into his coffers for $253.04 at Dunkin'.
Among the Republicans, John McCain trailed Mitt Romney -- $923.70 to $992.91 -- in Dunkin' Donuts bills, but spent $116.79 on Krispy Kremes in Reno, Nev., to put him ahead. Ron Paul's doughnut bills totaled $108.07. Rudolph W. Giuliani's campaign didn't itemize doughnuts, but listed a $5,100 bill at Bouchon Bakery in Las Vegas.