Bush Spending Neared $50 Million in July ($209 m to date)

[papau]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Presidential-Money.html

Bush Spending Neared $50 Million in July
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 9:29 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A fresh wave of ads pushed President Bush's spending to nearly $46 million for July, the Republican's highest level since he launched the first ad blitz of his re-election campaign in March, a campaign finance report filed Friday shows.

About $38 million of Bush's July spending last month went to admaking firm Maverick Media.

The Bush campaign raised $14 million in July, about as much as it has been taking in each month since it stopped holding fund-raising events in April and continued accepting donations through the mail and over the Internet.

Bush took in a record $242 million from the official start of his campaign in May 2003 through last month. He started August with $32.5 million left and about $458,000 in bills to pay.

Bush is on pace to break the $250 million mark by the time his primary fund-raising concludes with his nomination Sept. 2 at the Republican National Convention in New York. He has spent about $209 million.

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[Thrill]

1. And still behind in the polls

LMAO

[dmr]

3. Right, and this doesn't even include

all the free exposure he gets on the cable news channels, as well as the money spent by his rich friends that are trying to demean Kerry.

[Skidmore]

2. Dishonety and dishonorable behavior is costly.

It must be exhausting work to be one of his superrangers, or whatever cutesy superherotype nickname they need to be given.