Kerry Citizen Soldier Fund was used in various states for "good will"- so

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What the hell is Newsweek/NBC and other media trying to imply.

Citizen Soldier Fund was used in various states for "good will" - so how is this buying votes anymore than giving to the Heart Fund because Laura Bush asks is buying W's ok on some policy? So again, What is the media - Newsweek - trying to imply?

The statement by Kerry refers to fund raising for election campaigns - and everyone agrees his "no PACS' is both unusual and the right direction to go - since you need money, tis better to take from disclosed individuals rather than from inductry PACs.

Or is someone saying That Kerry getting dirt on his hands from the requirements of doing his job in the most honest way possible is the same as Bush wallowing in rich/corporate mud to avoid campaign finance limits and to get money for the GOP?

Or is someone saying that the monies in the Citizen Soldier Fund were used for a Kerry Campaign - 'cause if they are we have a need for an email campaign to call them on their lie.

FROM NEWSWEEK( via MSNBC.COM )
"Though he has shunned PAC donations, which are limited to $5,000 apiece, the senator in 2001 formed a fund-raising group called the Citizen Soldier Fund, which brought in more than $1.2 million in unregulated "soft money." Kerry pledged he would limit individual donations to $10,000. But in late 2002, just before new federal laws banning soft money took effect, Kerry quietly lifted the ceiling and took all the cash he could get. In the month before the election, the fund raised nearly $879,000—including $27,500 from wireless telecom firms such as T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4121890/

"John McCain made this point loud and clear lobbying for McCain Feingold when he admitted despite having a finance reform bill authored, he still had to play the game.That a Dem would have to take some corporate lobbyist money, particularly from an industry in his state is hardly worth making a note about unless you're trying to damage him. " from http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?13@@.2cb9c89b


As Will Pitt has said: "George W. Bush will have a 10-1 spending advantage over all the Democratic candidates combined. Period. What is the proper response to this?"