Dean's Rainmakers

[sangha]

http://www.politicalmoneyline.com/cgi-win/indexhtml.exe?MBF=dean_rainmakers

Since Dean seems so concerned about special interests, I'd thought I'd supply some info on Dean's contributors

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Umm...who are those people?

What exactly is the point?

[David Dunham]

2. They Look Like Fat Cat Donors To Me. What's Dean Say?

[sangha]

3. Steve Grossman might have AIPAC ties

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~jsas/grossman.html

[sangha]

13. Grossman sounds like a "party insider" to me

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/02/grossman/

[dorktv]

4. WTF? How come I not on that list? I raised um...172 dollars for Dean.

[RetroLounge]

5. Rob Reiner? NFW!

Well, that settles it...

:eyes:

[Anwen]

12. LOL!

:D

[On the Road]

6. Do You Know Who These People Are?

Or is the fact that Dean has some large contributors supposed to make a point of some kind?

[sangha]

17. You don't know?

Have you been spending too much time checking Kerry's donors to examine Deans?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

7. Isn't Dean's campaign manager a telecomunications lobbyist?

http://slate.msn.com/id/2094729/

[ShaneGR]

8. Yes, he is

or was

[mandyky]

21. Big difference between IS and WAS

That is and was biz is one reason we are so ticked at shrub, isn't it?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

27. And according to Dean

he is lobbyist who never lobbied. :eyes:

[Jerseycoa]

9. What's the difference between

Kerry and Kerry-GLAC?

Thanks for posting this. Very interesting. I guess it will be updated after today.

[Jerseycoa]

11. Kerry-GLAC

John Kerry for President Inc. General Election Legal and Accounting Compliance Fund

I wonder why we all don't have this?

[mzmolly]

10. And John Kerry's wife gave him far more than all Dean's contributors

combined.

[sangha]

14. That's not true

The limit by law is $2000

[mzmolly]

19. Lets see Kerry was broke when they married, he makes about 100k

per year and they *mortgaged one of *their* properties for 6 million dollars.

Do we need a rocket scientist here?

[Dookus]

16. that's an untruth

that has been cleared up here many many times. She has donated $2,000 to his campaign. Why do you repeat the charge when it's been shown to be untrue?

[mzmolly]

20. Just becaue they found a way around campaign financing doesn't

mean it's false. They mortgaged a 6 million dollar property to fund the campaign, remember?

JK was not wealthy when he met his second millionaire wife.

[Dookus]

22. But your assertion wasn't that he mortgaged his house...

it was that his wife has given him some obscene amount of money. She gave him $2,000. It's a matter of public record.

[LuminousX]

30. Can his wife pay his mortgage note?

[JasonBerry]

29. Kerry wasn't wealthy????

That's news to me - John Kerry has never been hurting for money. His middle name ain't Forbes for nothin!

[Nazgul35]

15. Yes...let's look at some figures...

How about these, priovided by Open Secrets:

http://www.opensecrets.org/presidential/donordems.asp

Candidate # $200+ # $2,000+ % $2,000+ % $200 or less

Bush: 48,918 29,803 73% 12%

Dean: 18,364 1,554 13% 56%

Kerry: 12,717 4,362 55% 12%

Edwards: 10,985 4,396 65% 3%

Lieberman: 9,885 2,938 52% 9%

Clark: 2,938 512 31% 35%

Kucinich: 2,141 179 11% 65%

Sharpton: 209 78 64% 9%

You're right! Seems Dean is getting nickle and dime influence!!!!!

[joshcryer]

24. Indeed, I wanted to post that yesterday.

But the flames were pretty bad (not like today is any better).

Those numbers are very very telling, don't you think?

[Nazgul35]

26. ha! What's even more telling...

is how much it is being ignored...

:evilgrin:

[Indiana Democrat]

18. "Dean's Rainmaker"

[Duder]

23. LOL, let's compare...

Dean -
14 individuals who have raised at least $100,000
18 individuals have bundled at least $50,000

Kerry-
32 fundraisers who have brought in at least $100,000
87 rainmakers have collected at least $50,000

http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/index.cfm?SRC=1

[progressivebydesign]

25. I am Dean's rainmaker..

I gave $50.00. I am one, along with thousands of others. I'm insulted by the attitudes lately that my contribution, along with millions of dollars donated by people like me, are not worth discussion. He has to have money, to ward off the anonymous viscious attacks at the hands of shadowy groups running ads in primary states.

Shall we find a candidate that has saved enough pennies to be president?

[NashVegas]

28. How Do You Browse This DB

To see the other candidate's "rainmaker" lists?