KERRY TOPS IN TAKING CORPORATE CASH... (Drudge title) - Kerry Leads in Lobby Money (WP title)

Washington Post via Drudge ^ | 1/31/04 | Jim VandeHei - Washington Post

[NormsRevenge]

Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), who has made a fight against corporate special interests a centerpiece of his front-running campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, has raised more money from paid lobbyists than any other senator over the past 15 years, federal records show.

Kerry, a 19-year veteran of the Senate who fought and won four expensive political campaigns, has received nearly $640,000 from lobbyists, many representing telecommunications and financial companies with business before his committee, according to Federal Election Commission data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

[NormsRevenge]

Senator "Is that ketchup on your face?" Kerry..has raised more money from paid lobbyists than any other senator over the past 15 years, federal records show.

That takes some doing.

[MEG33]

HYPOCRISY

[NormsRevenge]

Sen. John F. Kerry is surprised to see an old friend, retired Marine Col. Landon Thorne, right, at a veterans' rally in Columbia, S.C.

Photo Credit: Charles Krupa -- AP

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Milking rich widows and military veterans for all they are worth.

He was surprised to bump into an old friend.

Yeah, Right. ;-]

[Salvation]

And he talks about representing the little man?

Don't let the door hit you on the way out Ketchup Boy!

[RagingBull]

after the botox injections and eyebrow transplant, it's amazing that his old friend recognized him.

[I still care]

Isn't it amazing how the Democrats are nominating the wealthiest man in Congress?

[aimhigh]

Liberals - They either become what they hate, or they pretend to hate what they are.

[ShandaLear]

Like these reunions aren't staged? Give me a break.

[GailA]

Isn't the NEA a special interest? And all those labor unions????????

[Lysandru]

O.K., let's see...

1) Kerry claims to be against special interests, but leads the Senate in taking their money...

2) Kerry unloads populist rhetoric-- after he was born to privilege and married not one, but two mulit-millionaire heiresses...

3) Kerry campaigns as being strong on national security-- but he voted consistently against defense spending and intelligence spending...

4) Kerry claimed for nearly two decades to be of Irish ancestry--but turns out to be the grandson of an Austrian Jew...

5) Kerry talks about military service being a crucial qualification for being president-- but he fully supported Bubba Clinton...

6) Kerry talks about being against Vietnam-- to the point of where he threw someone else's medals over the White House fence in protest...

I despise this man. He is the worst sanctimonious phony in the race.

[Lady In Blue]

ping

[blackie]

The truth will out ~ Kerry is a Botoxed cretin. :)