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Industries That Give to Bush Get Their Money's Worth
Public Citizen Report Outlines the Many Favors Bush Has Given Industries That Bundle Money for Campaign As President Bush prepares to launch a multimillion-dollar campaign ad blitz, Public Citizen today released a report outlining who helped pay for the campaign ads and what favors they have received during his presidency. In the report, Bush Campaign Ads: Brought to You by . . . Special Interests, Public Citizen details how much money representatives from key industries - including finance, real estate, communications, energy, health care, and insurance - have helped raise and lists the tax breaks, regulatory changes, legislative favors and plum appointments Bush has given his backers. Many of the beneficiaries of his policies are Rangers and Pioneers, terms Bush gives donors who bundle contributions that total at least $200,000 and $100,000 respectively. \The ads will run on cable networks and will target voters in 17 battleground states. Bush had spent at least $41 million of his campaign money by the end of January; his war chest holds another $110 million. He is expected to raise another $50 million before September's nominating convention and accept $75 million in public financing for the two months before Election Day. Public Citizen's report finds that the 416 Bush Rangers and Pioneers have bundled together at least $58.1 million for the 2004 campaign and that 90 percent of them (374) represent the special interests of America's corporations. Public Citizen's report also details_how Bush has given tax breaks that benefit the finance industry, made it easier for real estate developers to build on wetlands and in the Florida Everglades, reneged on a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide emissions (pleasing the electric utility and mining industries), increased the amount of public land available for oil and gas exploration and coal mining, filled top Interior Department positions with executives from the mining industry, and aided the pharmaceutical industry by pushing pro-industry Medicare drug legislation. Read the report: http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/documents/bushads2.pdf
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09-02-2004, 11:46 AM
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oh yeah. .. put Kerry up on that pedestal.
Tell us why, he's your man. 
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09-02-2004, 11:52 AM
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hey techie, opions are like *********s, everyone has one.
Why peolpe feel the need to post so much freaking political BS on this off-topic forum boggles my mind. Aren't there Political Forums you can go rant and rave on? |
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09-02-2004, 11:57 AM
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Yeah and the Dems are envious......they want their noses back in the trough...
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09-02-2004, 11:58 AM
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Oh give him some slack. Tech is a good Democrat doing his best to push it into the goal for his team. Problem is he's disoriented, big time. Bush is NOt supposed to be ahead right now and it's driving him nuts. I expect him to get worse before he gets better. He use to give opinions and back them up, now it's just straight up junk meant to trick people. He means well
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