Business Cash for Bush Campaign, Lawyers for Kerry
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With direct private fund-raising for the presidential campaigns ended, President Bush has maintained the traditional Republican edge among business leaders, according to government data.
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Democratic Party leaders said Wednesday they want to know why Sen. John Kerry ended his presidential campaign with more than &#36;15 million in the bank, money that could have helped Democratic candidates across the country.
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President Bush burned through more than half of his &#36;75 million government grant to cover his general-election campaign costs in September, leaving him with just under &#36;37 million left for the final month before the Nov. 2 election.
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In the next few weeks leading up to Election Day, money will pour into candidates' coffers and voters will be able to see which lobby groups are trying hardest to buy their lawmakers' favor.
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Democrat John Kerry charged President Bush's administration on Friday with rewarding politically connected companies with huge defense contracts and then "turning a blind eye to the massive overcharging and waste."
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A brief history of the Presidential Election Campaign Fund:
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The Democratic and Republican parties have hired an army of attorneys in preparation for what is expected to be a close and possibly hotly-contested battle between President George W. Bush and Democratic Senator John Kerry.
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Following the lead of President Bush's political team, John Kerry's presidential campaign will launch a new television ad Saturday that broadly refers to his party's agenda and gives him access to as much Democratic National Committee money as he wants.
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President George W. Bush's re-election campaign promised to fight all unregulated "soft money" political groups in court, amid a mounting controversy about ads by Republican veterans slamming Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry's war record.
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President Bush can't win a popularity contest in New Jersey, but he can attract cash &#151; $675,000 Wednesday night for the struggling state GOP.
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President Bush has named as his top economic adviser an Indiana businessman and former state Republican Party chairman who was one of Bush's top fund-raisers for both presidential campaigns.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; As the nation's trial lawyers again funneled tens of millions of dollars to Democrats and their causes in the last election, Republicans were crafting a strategy to choke off that money for future campaigns.
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The chairman of President Bush's Homeland Security Advisory Committee and Democratic challenger John Kerry's fund-raising chief are among 27 top campaign cash-raisers who are current or former managers of companies punished for trading with Iran or Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
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Ford Motor Co., Time Warner Inc. and Home Depot Inc. are among the big corporations donating funds for President Bush's reinauguration ceremonies, according to a list released Friday.
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President Bush, Sen. John Kerry and their political parties are spending nearly &#36;40 million on TV ads in the final week of the presidential campaign as they adjust their strategies in a shrinking battleground.
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Whatever the reasons John Kerry and the Democrats lost the race for the White House, lack of money wasn't one. Tax-exempt pro-Democratic groups raising big checks for this year's election collected almost twice as much money as their Republican rivals in the presidential race, a study shows. The financial advantage comes in addition to record fund raising by Kerry, the unsuccessful candidate, and the Democratic Party.
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A wealthy Texan and prolific Republican donor is helping bankroll a television ad assailing Democrat John Kerry's decorated military record in the Vietnam War.