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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (554991)	3/22/2004 5:28:26 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

Cash and Kerry The Dem challenger needs money fast to counter Bush's overflowing coffers -- and he doesn't much care where it comes from Democratic Presidential candidate-in-waiting John F. Kerry likes to style himself as a foe of "powerful special interests in Washington." But with his campaign fighting off an intense media barrage from President Bush's megabuck reelection effort, Kerry has apparently decided that populism stops at the river's edge -- in this case, the Potomac. On Mar. 16, some 300 Kerry fans from Washington's legal and lobbying powerhouses sipped coffee and nibbled Danish pastries at the tony St. Regis Hotel, on K Street -- Washington's Lobbyist Central. Guests, most of whom represent corporate interests in Washington, were treated to an impassioned pitch from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to enlist in countering a "nasty and mean" GOP assault on Kerry's character. The price of admission: $1,000 a head -- which also will admit them to an April fund-raiser as part of a D.C. doubleheader -- to hear the New Yorker's tales of prosecuting Wall Street greed, mutual-fund corruption, and utility-company pollution. ...the Democrat can't afford to dwell on the seeming inconsistency in his stance on entrenched power in Washington. To counter an onrushing Bush money machine, he needs donations now -- and he's not about to question where the cash comes from. businessweek.com:/print/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2004/nf20040318_1687_db038.htm?db