Posted on 11/17/2004 2:59:16 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
ooopppsss!
Wasn't Kerry sitting on it so he could contest the outcome? He wanted recount money to pay lawyers?
How sad. What a pathetic party.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAA! What a dufus!
You *#*# the whore, you pay her.
I love it!
Hahahahaha, maybe he can give George Soros a refund!
I thought I saw a story on this yesterday that mentioned the amount of 45 million, plus some left from the legal defense fund. Does anyone remember that? I may have seen it on Drudge.
Anyway, I hope he gets lambasted all over Washington. I wonder if he ever paid back the loan of 6 million he got for his wife's house back during the primary? That loan was supposed to be paid for before the election out of campaign money.
She Who Must Not Be Named just pocketed an envelope, chuckling...
Oops, it isn't just republicans who quickly turn against their candidate once the election is over!
Three former Kerry campaign aides, also demanding anonymity out of concerns about alienating their former boss, said they were surprised and disappointed to learn that he left so much money in the bank.
Kerry had roughly $45 million left in his primary campaign fund as of mid-October, according to his Federal Election Commission (news - web sites) report, and could use that as seed money for another presidential bid.
His final report is not due until next month, but officials close to Kerry said he has $15 million to $17 million in that account, with no outstanding debts, after giving the DNC about $23 million and state parties about $9 million since the mid-October report.
In addition, the report showed that Kerry had about $7 million on hand in a legal and accounting compliance fund that he could use for legal expenses in a 2008 campaign. Officials said he raised several million more for that account since the filing.
Last summer, Kerry donated $3 million each to the House and Senate campaign committees and $2 million to the Democratic Governors Association.
While Kerry has likely given more money to state committees than any other nominee, no other Democrat has raised as much as he did. And second-guessing Democrats said Wednesday they couldn't recall a candidate leaving so much money on the table after a campaign.
"He's going to have to give some of it up for 2005 and beyond," Brazile said. "The party will demand it."
I beleive he has an additional 7 million in legal & accounting money that he can hold onto all the way to 2008.
I think that money has to be seperate, doesn't it?
He's probably got some of that, too; didn't we hear 15 million?
15 million? I heard it's closer to 45 million.
I can think of two reasons:
1) Kerry was convinced he was going to win and was trying to get a head start on the 2008 reelection campaign. He probably felt he had overspent and no amount of additional spending was going to change the outcome.
2) Kerry was convinced he was going to lose and was trying to conserve cash in a losing effort. No sense in throwing good money away after bad. He probably felt he had overspent and no amount of additional spending was going to change the outcome.
This goes a long way toward answering one of the questions I have had about Kerry. I have been wondering if John was his name or his occupation.
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