KERRY: The Friendliest PAC?

[fedupinBushcountry]

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John Kerry's camp says Kerry, though his leadership PAC, "gave the most money to 2006 candidates and committees than any other PAC in the country. ... more than double the amount of money than the number 2 PAC and far more than any of his potential 08 rivals -- Republican or Democrat. ... These numbers do not include what Kerry gave out of his own campaign account to candidates and what he raised for them online. Overall, John Kerry raised or gave away 14 million dollars to nearly 300 candidates this cycle and did more stumping than any national Democrat" (release, 1/11).

Their "comprehensive analysis" of all relevant leadership PACs showed the top 6 PACs, by transfers to other candidates (through 11/27/06), were:

Leadership PAC Total
Transfers To Fed.
Candidates To Non-Fed
Candidates
Keeping America's Promise (John Kerry) $4,348,932 $4,011,830 $337,102
Forward Together PAC (Mark Warner) 2,087,619 882,000 1,204,819
Straight Talk America (John McCain) 1,374,033 645,523 728,710
Every Republican Is Crucial (E. Cantor) 1,342,144 1,337,144 5,000
AmeriPAC (Steny Hoyer) 1,250,640 1,194,500 56,140
The Freedom Project (John Boehner) 1,130,348 1,098,348 32,000

http://www.johnkerry.com/news/articles/newsarticle.html?id=110

[wisteria]

1. We all suspected as much. Maybe someone should e-mail this to

Senator Clinton and mail it to the office of the owner of the domain Heyjohn.com

Someone obviously didn't want it to get around that Kerry can raise a large amount of money.

[ray of light]

2. was it posted at kos or anywhere else?

[beachmom]

4. Well, we'll tuck this one away for the moment. It can always

be brought out at the appropriate time.

[Inuca]

3. "every republican is crucial"?!?!

My first smile of the day, thanks :-) E. Cantor, whoever you are....