AFTER ACTION: We freep Kerry in the lion's den of Santa Monica (08/26/04)

Mission Accomplished VERY WELL!!!! Great Job! Excellent pictures.....

and..

I will say...

THERE WERE MANY MORE THAN "A HANDFUL" THAT I COUNTED IN YOUR PICS!!!

This media coverage "is killing me....it's killing us." ;-) <----(old Seinfield line)

NordP

61 posted on 08/27/2004 8:33:59 PM PDT by NordP (The terrorists aren’t bullies on a playground; they’re hard core, “24” TV, head-sawing TERRORISTS!)

OutFreepingStanding!!!

62 posted on 08/27/2004 8:40:17 PM PDT by don-o (Stop Freeploading. Do the right thing and sign up for a monthly donation.)

Who IS that Honey with the "Farm Fresh" T-shirt? I am in love!!

(Uh, happily married, and celebrating 54th today, but Mrs. don-o allows such flights of fancy.)

63 posted on 08/27/2004 8:44:32 PM PDT by don-o (Stop Freeploading. Do the right thing and sign up for a monthly donation.)

dirty old man. She can be your granddaughter. No respect for your wife. I didn't know we have perverts on this site. Lily in CA

64 posted on 08/27/2004 9:23:50 PM PDT by AgThorn (Go go Bush!! But don't turn your back on America with "immigrant amnesty")

I did not get a smilie, there - and I am not a dirty old man - you can ask my wife!

Y'all did a great Freep.

Compare the mud people that show up at Dim events against the normal (and pretty) people on this.

"in love" was, like a JOKE! hyperbole and whatnot.

Can I get that "dirty old man" recanted?

65 posted on 08/27/2004 9:34:50 PM PDT by don-o (Stop Freeploading. Do the right thing and sign up for a monthly donation.)

From the Sacramento Bee:

Mr. Personality: Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry tried to go Hollywood at a $3 million fund-raiser in Santa Monica on Thursday night. Singer Tony Bennett belted out campaign-themed songs, such as "The Best Is Yet to Come" and "Maybe This Time (I'll Win)" from the musical "Cabaret."
Actress Anjelica Huston and her sculptor husband, Robert Graham, added to the evening's glamour. But the best Kerry could offer the patrons who had paid at least $5,000 each for the dinner was: "Don't think of this as a fund-raiser. Think of this as my Hollywood audition for 'West Wing.' "

66 posted on 08/28/2004 6:26:48 AM PDT by RonDog

This fundraiser might actually NOT have been as successful as was first reported.

From www.oaklandtribune.com:

Kerry on Thursday raised about $1.5 million at a Santa Monica fund-raiser. After Friday's fund-raiser, he flew to Washington state for a campaign event in Everett and a fund-raiser in Seattle.

67 posted on 08/28/2004 7:14:13 AM PDT by RonDog

From the New York Times:

August 28, 2004

Kerry Still Raises Money, Following Finance Law's Fine Line
By JODI WILGOREN

AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27 - Senator John Kerry pulled into the political piggy bank that is California and picked up $6 million for the Democratic National Committee's bulging accounts in 24 hours, part of a weeklong blitz that raised close to double that amount.
"You have been extraordinary in this effort, again and again, investing in the future of our country," Mr. Kerry told 700 people here over lunch on Friday in a hotel ballroom glittering under four huge chandeliers.
Mr. Kerry has been legally barred since accepting the presidential nomination last month from collecting checks of up to $2,000 for his campaign, because he is accepting $75 million in public money to finance his general election efforts.
So he has been headlining fund-raising events where donors pump up to $27,000 each into the Kerry-Edwards Victory Fund, which goes mainly to the party's coffers but also subsidizes the legal and accounting work for the campaign.
For donors, that is often a distinction without a difference. They get to hear the candidate - and, if they donate enough, pose for pictures with him - and they expect the money will help his election.
"We'll give whatever it takes to beat Bush," said Jack Brooks, 81, a real estate investor at the luncheon who said he had maxed out on contributions to Mr. Kerry and the Democratic Party. "Every campaign takes more and more money. Each candidate, each time around, needs twice as much as the year before."
For Mr. Kerry, the fund-raising seemed a fine way to spend a week of August when many voters are on vacation and much of the news media is focused on the Republican National Convention. Instead of sticking to swing states, Mr. Kerry visited several stalwart Democratic areas.
On Saturday evening under a tent in front of a three-story East Hampton, N.Y., beach house that belongs to Alan Patricof, the venture capitalist, Mr. Kerry sat in on guitar as Jimmy Buffett sang "Brown-Eyed Girl."
On Thursday at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica, he was serenaded by Tony Bennett who sang "The Best Is Yet to Come." He also bagged $2 million at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and planned to pull in $1.5 million on Friday night at the Westin hotel in downtown Seattle.
Then there was the $680 from Willie Field, a 6-year-old who met Mr. Kerry in Philadelphia and handed him a check with what he earned this summer selling bead bracelets made by his 9-year-old brother.
"Six-hundred eighty bucks," Mr. Kerry marveled the next day, retelling the story in Green Bay, Wis. "That's going to help us be on the radio, somewhere. That's huge - not to mention the people he touched. There's no limit to the things every single one of you can do."
Indeed, there seems no limit to what partisans on each side are willing to pay this campaign season. As of last month, President Bush had raised $242 million, Mr. Kerry $233 million.
In the 18 months ending June 30, the Republican National Committee brought in $245 million, and its Democratic counterpart $153 million.
The Democrats' Victory Fund has $40 million. In the primaries, the first $2,000 went to Mr. Kerry's campaign and the next $25,000 to the party. Now, the first $25,000 goes to the party and the last $2,000 to Mr. Kerry's General Election Legal and Accounting Committee, which can be used just for certain technical tasks.
"This is an enormous financial burden for us - we're not rich," Brennan Newsom, 66, said of himself and his wife, Franza Giffen, 55, civil litigation lawyers who attended the lunch and said they had given $25,000 to the Democrats this year, five times what they donated in 2000. Eileen Donahoe, 45, a lawyer turned graduate student who never wrote a political check before enlisting to help raise money for Mr. Kerry a year ago, said she had been surprised at how easy it was. Some 50 people gave or raised at least $25,000 to be co-chairmen of the lunch, Ms. Donahoe said; 26 people brought in double that, to be chairmen of the event.
"It's a cause everybody cares about," said Ms. Donahoe, who lives in Portola Valley. "It's phenomenally easy; I've been shocked.''
As the campaign revs up, fund-raising is the sole activity likely to send Mr. Kerry to places like California, where recent polls show that he enjoys at least a 10-point lead. He is doing what he can to make the check writing go down easy.
"Don't think of this as a fund-raiser," he told the 400 people who paid $5,000 each for the privilege of dining with him Thursday. "Think of it as my Hollywood audition for 'West Wing.' "

68 posted on 08/28/2004 8:27:57 AM PDT by RonDog

To: doug from upland

Doug, about the car. You are not well. Many of care deeply about you. There are people that can help. A rest, medically induced sleep, some blood tests.....

69 posted on 08/28/2004 1:29:38 PM PDT by Leisler (Kerry, release your Department of Defense SF 180)

70 posted on 08/28/2004 2:24:41 PM PDT by timestax

Need to do havdouts of the info in the first lnk.

This one is Treason!

You just do not realize how sick jfk is until you read this.

VVAW worked with the NV to get US not to bomb NV troops during an attck by NV.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201299/posts

And this one go to 54
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201386/posts

71 posted on 08/28/2004 4:53:17 PM PDT by stockpirate (Real issue is Kerry attended meeting where VVAW discussed killing 7 US Senators! 11/71)

I think the problem with his salute is that he suffers from a lack of normal male virility---femininization resulting from chronic low levels of androgens.

We also see this problem when he throws a baseball.

I am thinking one of the potency enhancing drugs might effect an increased masculinization and result in the ability to execute and maintain a proper military salute.

Bad taste, guys, but I had to!

72 posted on 08/28/2004 5:13:03 PM PDT by TFMcGuire (Either you are an American or you are a Liberal.)