Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LindyBill who wrote (29393)	2/13/2004 10:55:22 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793970

BUSH CAMP TAKES AIM Ad calls Kerry lobbyists' tool By Scott Lindlaw, Associated Press, 2/13/2004 WASHINGTON -- In a new video message being sent to millions of people, President Bush's reelection campaign casts Senator John F. Kerry as a tool of the special interests he regularly denounces. The spot, titled "Unprincipled," has the flavor of a campaign ad but is customized for the Internet users who were receiving it last night. The one-minute spot depicts a woman surfing the Web. She finds a clip of Kerry railing against "the influence-peddlers and the special interests. We're coming, you're going!" Kerry declares. The woman narrates the piece as she digs further and finds online news and watchdog reports on Kerry's campaign fund-raising. An analysis by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics in Washington found that the Massachusetts Democrat accepted more campaign money from lobbyists over the past 15 years than anyone else in the Senate -- about $638,000. "Whew!" the woman says. "For what?" The punchline: "Kerry -- brought to you by the special interests." The spot was to be sent out late yesterday to about 6 million Bush supporters. It makes clear that Bush's reelection campaign believes Democrats have all but settled on Kerry as their nominee. Kerry's spokeswoman, Stephanie Cutter, responded: "If the Bush White House wants to raise special interests as an issue, then bring it on. "This White House has never met a special interest it didn't like . . . George Bush took more money from lobbyists in 2003 than John Kerry has in his entire career, and has managed to reward them handsomely for it too -- at the expense of the environment, our economy, and the middle class." © Copyright 2004 Globe Newspaper Company. © Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company