Edwards, Clark carry debt from 2004 bids
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Democrats John Edwards and Wesley Clark have debts of several hundred thousand dollars from their unsuccessful White House bids in 2004, a burden as they consider presidential runs in 2008.
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John Edwards' presidential campaign has donated to charity $4,600 in contributions from William Lerach, a top fundraiser and a well-known trial lawyer who pleaded guilty this week to a federal conspiracy charge.
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Former Sen. John Edwards Thursday said he will accept public financing for his presidential campaign, and challenged his chief rivals for the Democratic nomination, Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, to follow his lead.
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Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards made almost &#36;39 million in income in a decade, his campaign disclosed Friday.
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Congressional candidates spent a record &#36;911.8 million in last year's races, and several 2006 contests are already showing signs they will carry big price tags.
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Presidential candidate John Edwards on Saturday said the country can't simply wait for the economy to turn around, and he wants Congress to come up with as much as $100 billion to prepare for a potential economic slowdown.
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Republican challenger Van Taylor asked U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards to explain allegedly unpaid taxes from 20 years ago, while the Democrat renewed his call Saturday to halt negative campaigning in the race for the congressional district that includes President Bush's ranch.
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The lawmakers said they were particularly concerned with a key aspect of the agenciesâ business models: they get paid by the companies whose bonds they rate.
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Bloomberg - May 31 (Bloomberg) -- Matt Lavin, an Iowa City graduate student, says nothing he has heard so far -- not the reports of $400 haircuts, the $44,000 fee for a speech on poverty, the $500,000 hedge-fund salary -- has shaken his support for Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush and John Kerry have accepted $75 million each in government financing for their campaigns for the White House but tens of millions more will be spent by the parties and partisan interest groups to influence the race.
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) raised $7 million from April through June for his presidential campaign and had an equal amount in the bank at the end of the second quarter, according to detailed financial reports filed yesterday with the Federal Election Commission.
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President Bush and John Kerry have accepted &#36;75 million each in government financing for their campaigns for the White House but tens of millions more will be spent by the parties and partisan interest groups to influence the race.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards carries a running list of people he might put in his Cabinet, and it includes "more than one" Republican.
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The campaign of Democrat John F. Kerry has earmarked $6 million for Democratic committees that support congressional candidates from the sizable surplus left over from the privately funded phase of his presidential campaign.
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Both political parties assumed millions of dollars in debts in the waning days of the congressional campaign as the election intensified and the prospects of a power shift became more apparent.
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Bloomberg - July 15 (Bloomberg) -- Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards entered July with $12 million available for his bid to win the Democratic presidential nomination, his campaign said.
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WASHINGTON -- The federal deficit surged to a record $413 billion in 2004, the Treasury Department announced Thursday, injecting the figure into a presidential campaign in which the two parties have clashed over President George W. Bush&#39;s management of