Kerry Top 10 List--Did you not claim during the 2004 campaign that the vast majority of Kerry's donations were from individuals? Since when are Goldman Sachs & AOL Time Warner small contributors?
John Kerry's Top Ten Campaign contributors calculated by the Center for Public Integrity, Washington.
1. Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo PC, Boston $223,046
2. Fleet Boston Financial Corp., Boston $172,387
3. AOL Time Warner Inc., New York $134,960
4. Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston $123,258
5. Hill, Holiday, Connors, Cosmopulos Inc., Boston $119,300
6. Harvard University $108,700
7. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, NY $105,150
8. Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP, Minneapolis $103,450
9. Goldman Sachs Group Inc., NY $100,000
10. Piper Rudnick, Baltimore $92,300
*Sen. John Kerry also created a soft money committee (Citizen Soldier Fund), which raised approximately $1.35 million in unregulated donations and spent $147,000 in Iowa during the last two years. "The real powers that be in this country are not on any ballot. And they are accountable to no one. The bottom line is that the American people have a right to know who is underwriting their presidential candidates, and their democracy."
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