Kerry Donors Include 'Benedict Arnolds'

[Freddie Stubbs]

Candidate Decries Tax-Haven Firms While Accepting Executives' Aid
By Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 26, 2004; Page A01


Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, frequently calls companies and chief executives "Benedict Arnolds" if they move jobs and operations overseas to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

But Kerry has accepted money and fundraising assistance from top executives at companies that fit the candidate's description of a notorious traitor of the American Revolution.

Executives and employees at such companies have contributed more than $140,000 to Kerry's presidential campaign, a review of his donor records shows. Additionally, two of Kerry's biggest fundraisers, who together have raised more than $400,000 for the candidate, are top executives at investment firms that helped set up companies in the world's best-known offshore tax havens, federal records show. Kerry has raised nearly $30 million overall for his White House run.

Kerry has taken aim at "Benedict Arnold" companies as part of a much broader political and policy debate over stemming the flow of well-paying U.S. jobs overseas, a chief cause of unemployment, especially in the hardest-hit manufacturing sector. Kerry's solution, detailed in a speech yesterday in Toledo, is to enforce trade agreements, track and slow the outsourcing of U.S. jobs, and stop government contracts and tax incentives from going to companies that move operations or jobs offshore.

more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6884-2004Feb25.html

[papau]

1. BS dump on any Dem from our friends at the Wash Post -individual

2000 vs corporate millions to GOP

but their is no difference - right?

and the corporation orders up all employee donations - could not be just a liberal giving to Kerry while the liberal worked for a nasty corporation?

sigh

:-)

[Freddie Stubbs]

6. The difference is that Kerry was attacking these people

and also taking money from them. At least the Republicans are being consistant.

[Cuban_Liberal]

2. Also a dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x400447

[burythehatchet]

3. and what does Fox News have to say about this?

Please advise

[AntiCoup2K4]

5. FAUX says

"Checks in the mail, John!"

[tom2kpro]

4. Do they think they will get "access" or protection for this money?

When Kerry becomes President, he will need to think for a few minutes, at least, before signing any law nailing these Benedict Arnolds. There will be a debate among his staff about how to handle this, and I think he will probably do the right thing.

The ironic thing is that the Shrub abandoned some of his corporate friends when they got caught self-dealing. Perhaps it was lack of courage, or perhaps it was cold-hearted, political calculation, but he did throw them overboard. That is, at least as far as we can tell, because there may be subtle stuff going on that we will never see.

[Moderator]

7. Locking- Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x400447

Thanks,
DU Moderator