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Democrats and Fat Cats
Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, July 8, 2003 | House Editorial

Posted on 07/07/2003 11:59:17 PM PDT by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:05:07 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

"The Nine Dwarfs" pursuing the Democratic Party presidential nomination have been relentlessly asserting that the Republican Party is beholden to the wealthy. It turns out, however, that it is the Democratic Party that has been addicted to the million-dollar contributions from the nation's fat cats. A recent study by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), a nonpartisan campaign-finance research organization, reveals that the Democratic Party gobbled up an astounding 92 percent of all individual contributions totaling $1 million or more during the 2001-02 election cycle.


(Excerpt) Read more at dynamic.washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; campaignfunds; crp; donations
Tuesday, July 8, 2003

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1 posted on 07/07/2003 11:59:17 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
bump for later reading
2 posted on 07/08/2003 12:00:31 AM PDT by Hugin
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Book her, Dano.
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3 posted on 07/08/2003 12:03:46 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: Thud
fyi
4 posted on 07/08/2003 4:36:08 AM PDT by Dark Wing
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To: JohnHuang2
Bump and thanks for posting the article (and the quote!). This confirms prior articles showing the vast disparity of contributions of those who want to represent the "little people" from those who have been derided as "fat cats".
5 posted on 07/08/2003 6:29:55 AM PDT by alwaysconservative ("Without real freedom, there can be no real truth")
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To: JohnHuang2
These facts are one of the best kept secrets by the presstitutes and Rats. The former repeats the latter's lies, forever tagging the GOP as the "party of the rich fatcat donors." They do so knowingly, i.e. they lie. Hence, my tagline.....
6 posted on 07/08/2003 7:10:15 AM PDT by eureka! (Rats and Presstitutes lie--they have to in order to survive.....)
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