"Money Talks for Kerry" Wapo!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/04/AR2006030400998_pf.html


Money Talks for Kerry

The prospect of a second presidential bid for Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) sometimes draws chortling -- or even mockery -- from many Democratic Party insiders. But Kerry's fundraising ability, especially over the Internet, is ensuring that he remains a serious presence on the national political stage.

The most recent example is an e-mail Kerry sent from his political action committee, Keeping America's Promise. It asked donors to contribute to three Iraq war veterans running for Congress as Democrats: Tammy Duckworth in Illinois' 6th District, Patrick Murphy in Pennsylvania's 8th District and Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania's 7th District.

"You and I both know how Rove-style Republicans treat veterans who speak the truth," Kerry wrote. "I know something firsthand about the Swift Boat-style Republican attack ads of the last election -- but you don't have to take my word for it. Just ask John McCain. Ask Max Cleland. Ask Jack Murtha."

As of Friday, Kerry's appeal had raised about $300,000 for the three candidates, Kerry advisers said. The 2004 nominee followed up his first e-mail with a second appeal late last week -- this one seeking to raise campaign cash for Tim Walz, who is running for Minnesota's 1st District seat, and Jay Fawcett, the only Democrat seeking the seat of retiring Rep. Joel Hefley (R) in Colorado's 5th District. It brought in $52,000 in its first four hours.

Kerry has raised more than $1 million for Democratic candidates over the Internet in the past six months, according to calculations made by his aides.

During his 2004 bid for president, Kerry raised more than $80 million via the Internet, and in the process compiled an e-mail list of 3 million names. Should Kerry decide to run again, his Internet fundraising capability will be key. If he takes a pass, he becomes a major power broker by deciding which candidate can use (or buy) the list.

And isn't he still getting money towards himself too?

Friends of John Kerry is still fundraising. That's who called me the other week. :)

We heard this last year in mid-Dec somewhere. I think I heard that 'it was going well.' Ahm, especially on the internet.

with the totals of his 2005 fundraising. (he beat Hillary, btw.)

They're finally figuring it out, especially sinc 85% of Kerry voters NEVER considered voting for the other candidate. That was 1% more than Bush voters. And despite the MSM pumping Bush up and enabling the SBVT, Kerry still registered more positive numbers.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=273&topic_id=73341&mesg_id=73478

of course, that it was an ABB vote. These fund raising results will show how much of it was a vote for Kerry. Political capital!

Good for him; all of my donations go through his two PACs except a little for the Wis. Dem party. A way to show we have not forgotten JK and his vision.

But then again, they were never very logical.

Indicating one would NEVER vote for Bush can't be considered different from NEVER vote for Kerry. NEVER = NEVER.

Applying faulty logic means that Bush's votes can be considered ABK instead of votes for Bush.