Three New Kerry Ads Solicit Donations

Yahoo! News ^ | 4/19/04 | Liz Sidoti - AP

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WASHINGTON -

Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) criticizes President Bush (news - web sites)'s policies on the economy, the environment and abortion — and appeals for campaign dollars — in three television ads launched Monday on cable channels in five states.

The commercials, which coincide with Earth Day on Thursday and an abortion-rights march in Washington on Sunday, are designed to appeal to core Democratic voters and get them to donate to Kerry's campaign.

The ads will run for two weeks on cable channels such as CNN, MSNBC, Lifetime and Bravo in heavily Democratic states such as New York, California and New Jersey; Washington state, which Democrat Al Gore (news - web sites) won by about 5 percentage points in 2000, and Wisconsin.

The 30-second spots are Kerry's first on cable. Because they are running only locally, Kerry's ads will be seen far less than Bush's cable network ads, which have run nationally since early March.

One of Kerry's ad says "3 million Americans have lost their jobs" under Bush, while another claims that "Bush will appoint anti-choice, anti-privacy justices" and a third argues that the president has "let corporate polluters rewrite our environmental laws."

All three implore viewers to "contribute now."

Based on recent government figures, some 1.8 million jobs have been lost since Bush took office.

Steve Schmidt, a Bush campaign spokesman, called the ads "very typical of the Kerry campaign" because they are "relentlessly negative" and filled with "inaccurate attacks."

"They stand in stark contrast to the president's optimistic agenda," Schmidt said.

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On the Net:

Kerry campaign: http://www.johnkerry.com

Bush campaign: http://www.georgewbush.com

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) , D-Mass., gestures during a rally on the campus of the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Fla., Sunday, April 18, 2004. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

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Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) blasted as 'outrageous and unacceptable' a reported Saudi deal to drive down oil prices this year and help President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election bid.(AFP/Getty Images/Stephen Chernin)

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., addresses a crowd during a town hall-style campaign stop in Lake Worth, Fl., Monday, April 19, 2004. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

[boycott]

Kerry's economic recovery plan: MARRY RICH!!!

Wife #1: net worth was over $300,000,000.

Wife #2: new worth was over $675,000,000.

[NormsRevenge]

I am hard pressed to find any picture of Kerry where he isn't pointing or gesturing with his hands..

whud's up wid dat 8-/ ?

[boycott]

BTW, Kerry was having financal problems before marrying wife #2. He couldn't manage his own finances before hitching up with wife #2.

[NormsRevenge]

wuuuuhhllll... wuuhhhllllll ..

Sen. Joe Lieberman (news - web sites), D-Conn., right, points toward Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., left, while addressing an audience during a campaign stop in Lake Worth, Fl., Monday, April 19, 2004. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

[Smartass]

[NormsRevenge]

Well, Bring It ON, punk!

US Senator and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) answers questions from students during a visit to Howard University. The US government is taking 'very seriously' the possibility that terrorists, could attempt new attacks on US soil in the hope of influencing the outcome of the November presidntial elections(AFP/Tim Sloan)

[Mo1]

How much does Kerry have in his campaign fund?

I keep hearing lately that he's been having record breaking fundraisers .. but yet Kerry makes it sound like he's broke

And correct me if I'm wrong .. but he can't use this money he's raising after the DNC Convention right?

[Porterville]

John Kerry just doesn't have any GRAVITAS!!!

[PizzaDriver]

Send Him a check for "pennies", I sent 63 cents {$1 minus postage}. It will cost to process the check.
Should He win, I'm a donor {hee-hee}.

The "franking privledge" is backwards, We PAY to contact our government; yet its MEMBERS get to SPEND TAX DOLLARS to "spam" my mailbox.

[NormsRevenge]

Not sure and I believe you are correct on the funding.

A bubbly personality kind of guy like him, short of money.. I'm shocked .. lol

The amount of dough spent on the presidential campaign may easily approach 500 million .... not to mention all the dough on all elections state and nation wide.. elections are big business for some folks -:-)

It pays to keep government Big, for some. ;-)

[Jorge]

If I wasn't such a nice person I would say flooding Kerry's donation sites with pledges..and then "forgetting" to follow them up with real $$$ would be a really rotten(cool)thing to do.....

[Wolverine]

When you contribute...maybe Kerry sends you one of these....?

 

[Kirkwood]

"If I wasn't such a nice person I would say flooding Kerry's donation sites with pledges..and then "forgetting" to follow them up with real $$$ would be a really rotten(cool)thing to do....."

Gee, you can do that?

[Jorge]

A bubbly personality kind of guy like him, short of money.. I'm shocked .. lol

You mean "bubbly" as in funeral-like?

[Kirkwood]

Isn't that Bubba and Forrest Gump behind Kerry in the first picture???

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

"This poor champion of the little people only has $850 million in the bank, and so he really needs the full support of every wage-laborer in America. After all, he really cares about you."