Special Interests - the big bad b*

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As the b* team unleashes its attacks on Kerry and Spec. Int., he will have to go back and scrub his campaign financing records and protocol for donations.

Washington Post Opinion relates it as the epitome of PCKB syndrome (pot calling kettle . . .)

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Mr. Bush has raised more than four times as much from lobbyists during the 2004 race as Mr. Kerry has -- $960,000 for Mr. Bush to $235,000 for Mr. Kerry. During the 2000 contest, the Bush campaign assigned an industry code to givers so it would know precisely how much it was beholden and to whom. As electric utility lobbyist Thomas Kuhn explained in a 1999 letter to fundraisers, putting the code on the check "does ensure that our industry is credited, and that your progress is listed among the other business/industry sectors." Mr. Kuhn's progress may well have been noted; he met at least 14 times with Vice President Cheney's energy task force.



Full Story:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41097-2004Feb13.html