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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (6295)	3/11/2004 8:06:08 AM
From: tonto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Come on Chinu, Kerry is a bought man just like the rest. He is very influenced by the amount of money being given to him. That is to be expected of anyone who receives this kind of money. It is not honest to say one candidate is bought and the other is not... WASHINGTON (AP) - John Kerry intervened in the Senate to keep open a loophole that had allowed a major insurer to divert millions of federal dollars from the nation's most expensive construction project, then received tens of thousand of dollars in donations from the company during the next two years, documents show. Kerry is among Congress' top three recipients of campaign donations from lawyers and lobbyists – having taken $3.3 million this election cycle. The only two people taking more money from this group were Bush and Democratic presidential contender John Edwards, the North Carolina senator and former trial lawyer. As a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Kerry is in a key position to influence laws that affect the airline and automotive industries. This election cycle, the senator was among the top 10 recipients of money from such transportation interests – $87,925. The construction industry, whose contractors and engineers make billions of dollars from federally funded transportation projects, gave the senator more than $306,000 this cycle, putting Kerry among the top three recipients of this sort of money. He took $160,220 from general contractors, the companies that typically work in public transportation projects. Only Bush took more – $1.4 million. Kerry was second to the president in the amount – $2.6 million – he took from the finance, insurance and real estate industries. He was among the top three recipients – behind Bush and Dean – in the $883,950 he took from the communications and electronics industry.