Posted on 07/01/2003 1:41:52 PM PDT by PhiKapMom
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Bush Raises at Least $34M in Six Weeks
By SHARON THEIMER
Associated Press Writer
July 1, 2003
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush's campaign said Tuesday it has raised at least $34.2 million since he announced his 2004 re-election effort in May, with some checks still to be counted.
The Republican's total dwarfs fund-raising by his nine Democratic rivals, including Howard Dean, who racked up more than $800,000 in a daylong Web-a-thon on Monday that put him firmly among his party's money leaders as the second fund-raising quarter ended at midnight.
Bush raised $3 million at fund-raisers in Miami and Tampa, Fla., on Monday while Vice President Dick Cheney helped the campaign collect at least $500,000 in Grand Rapids, Mich., and $600,000 in Akron, Ohio.
The Bush-Cheney campaign had expected to raise around $30 million for the quarter after six weeks of fund raising. Bush entered the race in mid-May."This number represents strong enthusiasm for the president's leadership," campaign manager Ken Mehlman said.
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Dean Taps Into Democrats' Frustrations
By MIKE GLOVER
Associated Press Writer
July 1, 2003
PHOENIX (AP) -- To hear him talk, you can't tell what most peeves Howard Dean: the U.S.-led war in Iraq or his Democratic presidential rivals inside the Washington Beltway.Either way, Dean's take-no-prisoners' pitch is driving scores of supporters and millions of dollars to his long-shot candidacy.
In the first months of the year, the little-known Dean developed a reputation as the outspoken anti-war candidate - a sharp contrast from his more established Democratic rivals in Congress who supported military action. But the anti-war moniker only captured part of Dean's appeal to some Democrats.Edwards blocks GIs' loan break
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Edwards blocks GIs' loan break
By Charles Hurt
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
July 1, 2003
Sen. John Edwards, North Carolina Democrat, is single-handedly blocking Senate action on legislation all but unanimously supported by the House to ease the student-loan burden for soldiers fighting overseas.
In April, the House voted 421-1 to pass the HEROES Act, which essentially would defer student loans for soldiers called into action. The only dissenting vote was cast accidentally by one of the bill's sponsors.
The bill is stalled in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee under a "secret hold," said Sen. Judd Gregg, New Hampshire Republican and chairman of the committee.
Senate tradition allows members to lodge secret, or "anonymous," holds against a bill and block it indefinitely.
Supporters of the bill, the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act, were mystified for months that anyone would hold up such popular legislation, but couldn't pinpoint the culprit.
"It's frustrating when something has such overwhelming support and then it gets held up like this," said the bill's sponsor, Rep. John Kline, Minnesota Republican.
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Their all the same.
Anyway, Bush does not need my vote, he's going to get all the illegals to vote in my place.
ROFL !! I hadn't heard that, thanks !
I'm sorry that that there are so many whiners that continue to try to distrupt your threads.Man, isn't THAT the truth !?!? Sheesh!
Free speech is a disruption?
Feel free to prove wrong, any of the points made.
You left a few thing's out, but as it now stands I think I'll set the next one out.
But feel free to jump up and down and scream about your free speech being impeded. I know who's argument that sounds like. LOL!
I'm not sure how to reply. You voting for the 'RATS, Third Party or just 'punishing Bush' by stayin' away ??Just think, if enough folks do that, you could help get someone even WORSE than clintoon in office. Well, at least you won't have a GOP to kick around anymore, huh?
I voted for Perot in 1992, and have regretted it ever since. I'll never make that mistake again. I'm voting for BUSH and ALL GOP on the ballot.
Since you have a hard time reading, I'll point it out to you.
Post #24 sums most of it up: "He has done nothing to stop the flow of illegal aliens, he has squandered our money to appease third world dictators, he has sucked up to communist Chinese at the expense of freedom loving Taiwanese, he has signed into law the most blatant violation of free speech acts since the Alien and Sedition Acts, he has imposed unjust tariffs on steel, he has signed the notorious Sarbanes-Oxley Act which will deter any business from taking risks, he celebrates PC diversity crap - the list grows longer everyday.
And I'll add that he wants' to give millions of criminal aliens citizenship and our social security funds.
Nowadays, there is very little difference between a Republican and a Democrat.
That's the way to go. Give up whithout a fight.
How pure an ideology in politics can one expect? We win wars incrementally--not in one fell swoop. Sometimes compromise is necessary, even desirable for the goal to be met.
A vote for any other candidate other than Bush is a vote for the Democrat Party. That is my opinion.
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