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Marko - 28 February 2007 05:16 PM

“he wasn’t fully aware that he had given the large sum to the 527 group”


Sure, happens all the time.

Heh, sounds like a Clinton line. He should fit right in with the crowd up there.

As a proud contributor to the SwiftVets 527, I guess I can now call myself a “financier.” Wow.

By the way, we still await Kerry’s accusation of a single specific “lie” in any of the Swifties’ presentations. He can’t because there weren’t any. He could certainly sue for libel but to do so would mean releasing his full service records in the discovery process, something he will never do.

I contributed to SwiftVets too. It was money well spent.

Kerry hasn’t released his military records yet either.......after promising to on many occasions.

Why would this great war hero not want his records made public?

Justice wins!

The day after Senator John Kerry confronted a financier of one group that smeared him in the 2004 election, the Federal Election Commission reached its largest ever settlement on a fine for another group that attacked the Vietnam veteran in the last presidential race.

Today’s edition of Roll Call is reporting that the Progress for America Voter Fund has been slapped with a $750,000 fine. Roll Call’s Matthew Murray writes that the settlement was reached by the Progress for America Voter Fund and the Federal Election Commission yesterday. The conservative group raised $45 million from prominent Republican donors in the 2004 election cycle and spent $30 million on advertising during the race.

At issue were advertisements from the Progress for America Voter Fund that questioned Senator Kerry’s ability to lead the military. These ads fell outside the range of what is permissible for a “527” non-partisan organizations that may not work to “influence the selection, nomination, election, or appointment of any individual to public office or office in a political organization.”

The conservative group raised $45 million from prominent Republican donors

“There is a sucker born every minute.”
- P. T. Barnum

Marko - 01 March 2007 02:39 PM

The conservative group raised $45 million from prominent Republican donors

“There is a sucker born every minute.”
- P. T. Barnum

Sucker?  Lets see.......Kerry lost by how many votes........2 million?  Or if you want to narrow it down by states, he lost by about 150,000 in Ohio.

Do you suppose any of those 150,000 were influenced by the SBVFT or other 527s that went after Kerry?  I suppose they were, which makes that 45 million money well spent.