Unions, Torricelli Finance Anti - Dean Ads [View All]

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Unions, Torricelli Finance Anti - Dean Ads
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: February 11, 2004


Filed at 4:45 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Labor unions, former Democratic Sen. Bob Torricelli and one of presidential hopeful Howard Dean's own donors were among big givers to a group that ran ads criticizing Dean in three early voting states.

Americans for Jobs, Healthcare and Progressive Values raised $663,000 last year and spent $626,840 of it, a finance report provided to The Associated Press on Tuesday showed.

It ran at least three ads in December against then-Democratic front-runner Dean.



The group spent $15,000 on an ad aired in South Carolina and New Hampshire that showed a picture of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and said Dean, former Vermont governor, didn't have the experience needed to take on terrorism.


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