Activists' funds worrying GOP in '04 elections

[Pale_Rider]

Activists' funds worrying GOP in '04 elections
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/8302707.htm

Soon after Richard A. Clarke appeared on CBS's ``60 Minutes'' to say the Bush administration had fumbled its war on terror, the e-mail boxes at MoveOn began to fill up with forwarded transcripts of the show.

Members of the online activist organization thought the damning comments from a former counterterrorism chief who served under four presidents would make a good anti-Bush TV ad. This week it will appear on CNN, backed with $300,000 the group raised in a matter of hours.

The ability to mount such a lightning-fast response has made MoveOn, started by a Berkeley couple in 1998 to defend then-President Clinton during impeachment, a formidable player in this year's presidential contest. MoveOn's fundraising tactics have also made it a target for Republicans who say a MoveOn entity is using the tax code to skirt campaign-finance law and take huge, unregulated donations that were banned by the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform law.

It is good that the GOP is worried, even with their large war-chest.

[AgadorSparticus]

1. I'm glad you posted this. it gives perspective when things look bleak

especially with all the latest talk about polls, etc. The nasty attacks and rhetoric from the WH is exhausting when we see discrepancies in how the media treats anything critical of bush. it can get demoralizing. But with nice reminders like this, it keeps everything in perspective.

[Democat]

2. The right wing created Move On with their corrupt attacks on Clinton

Now they have to live with what they created. :)

[Adelante]

4. Heh

True justice.

[dae]

3. The folks at MoveOn really move on, an issue, and fast. :-)