Bush campaign hits $200 million milestone

[CShine]

Things you can do with $200 million: cover the New York Yankees' payroll for a year, go to Disney World more than 3 million times, buy a Picasso and a Van Gogh ... and run President Bush's re-election campaign.

Bush's campaign has hit the $200 million mark, doubling his 2000 record in less than a year of fund raising, donations through April posted on the campaign's Web site and tallied by The Associated Press show. The Republican incumbent has raised almost twice as much as Democratic rival John Kerry.

The figure would have been virtually unthinkable as recently as four years ago, when Bush stunned political observers by taking in just over $100 million. Then, Bush did so with the help of a national network of more than 200 volunteer campaign fund-raisers nicknamed "Pioneers," who each collected at least $100,000 for him.

Since then, Bush's fund-raising team has more than doubled, and many of his supporters already have raised more than $200,000 apiece. They have done so with help from the nation's campaign finance law, which doubled to $2,000 the maximum a person could donate to a political campaign.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/05/13/politics1619EDT0721.DTL

[gratuitous]

1. And for all those millions . . .

He's still gonna lose!

Even $200 million can't polish a turd.

[lancdem]

3. Yep

[okieinpain]

13. yes, he is going to need 300 million by the time this is over.

[truthisfreedom]

14. try a billion.

he's toast. get the jam ready.

[joefree1]

2. Yeah, what's it buy if he still looses?

A whole lot of nothing.

[Dover]

4. ..they'll need it. All those people to buy off.

eom

[Zinfandel]

5. Bush will raise over 300 million dollars by election time in November.

The corporations that Bush has given everything to...will give all he needs and more...he's their investment to the future, tax cuts, tax give aways and subsidies, even more deregulation, allowing off shore corporate accounts, paying no taxes and still receiving government contracts with the taxes we pay, encouraging taking jobs overseas, cutting American workers salaries and benefits and safety while working harder and understaffed and breaking unions...They love Bush.

And these republican corporate pigs keep pounding away that they are so patriotic.

Bullshit!

[Don_G]

6. Actually

This campaign will hit the Billion-Dollar mark by November.

It makes me wonder what the Bush supporters have to gain in the next 4 years and why they're so free with their money about it.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. Totally fucking obscene. I can only hope the "ruling class"

takes it in the shorts BIG TIME.

[loudsue]

8. It proves there are at least 400 REALLY STUPID people in the USA

who would volunteer their time to keep a chimpanzee in an office that's not suited for him.

and....that the price people with money will pay to make sure corporations run their country.

Sheesh!!!

I say we should show 'em what fund raising is all about, and put Kerry over the top!

:kick:

[Only Me]

9. If he had a speck of ...

decency, he would back out of the election, donate the money to a charitable cause, like easing the national debt he created for us. Or putting back into the Medicare fund he so easily squandered
away. Put the money anywhere it could do some good; instead of being wasted on his sorry behind.

[Blasphemer]

10. Disgusting...

Investing hundreds of millions of dollars to screw over hundreds of millions of Americans while Bushco lines their pockets. These guys are no better than slave traders.

[Democat]

11. If an independent council investigated, how many people would go to jail?

The depth of corruption that must exist inside the Bush campaign is hard to imagine, considering how he's been running the country.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

12. Bug your family.

Just a friendly reminder that everyone here needs to bug the hell out of their family members and friends to donate to the Kerry campaign. If they won't, and you have the $, offer to make a donation on their behalf.