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To: stockman_scott who wrote (34760)	1/11/2004 6:29:33 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

'Cheers' for the general And a few boos also. Wesley Clark's top career patrons are Citigroup, $6,250; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meaher & Flom, $5,950, and Sullivan & Cromwell, $5,500. From January 2002 until two weeks after declaring his intention to seek the presidency, the retired general received up to $830,000 for his work as a registered lobbyist for Acxiom Corp., a firm seeking terrorism-related federal contracts while Clark "was offering expert commentary on the War on Terror" on CNN. That's pretty much a standard career path for a MIC guy. After retiring from the military, you take a cushy job in with a MIC contractor, or if you've got the necessary polish and contacts, become a Washington MIC lobbyist. Mind you all politicians have a problem. Here's Dean's ... Howard Dean's top career patrons are Time Warner, $65,225; Microsoft Corp., $25,100, and IBM Corp., $23,250. When governor, Dean pushed for utility contract provisions that "cost Vermont families millions of dollars," but pleased Central Vermont Public Service Corp., which donated more than $10,000 to Dean's Fund for a Healthy America PAC. or Edwards John Edwards' top career patrons are Shangri-La Entertainment and Stephen Bing, $907,000; Baron & Budd of Dallas, $408,250, and Girardi & Keese, $362,475. As a senator from North Carolina, the former trial lawyer, whose 25 top career patrons included 22 law firms, pushed for a patient's bill of rights that would have "opened new avenues for lawsuits." And these are the "good guys". On the Republican side, it's more obscene. Hold your nose and read benningtonbanner.com lurqer