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To: MindBender26
Wealthy individuals, including lawyers from all over the country, account for the large donations to Edwards’ group. In fact, three out of every four dollars ($1,429,350) that the 527 group raised came from lawyers or law firms. Also apparent is the immense size of many donations to Edwards’ 527 group: Thirteen donations were for $50,000 or more, while the average donation during the second quarter was more than $28,000.

Wait, I thought Dems were supposed to represent the "little guy" while Pubbies are supposed to represent "moneyed interests." How come, then, it is nearly always the Dems who have the larger average donation size, often larger by multiple orders of magnitude? How come their smaller donations are frequently in- or quasi- voluntary (e.g. from union members)?

How come analyses like this one are NEVER reported by ABCNBCCBSCNN? Remember the monies collected by each party to prosecute the Floraduh election dispute? The media NEVER touched on this subject without mentioning that Bush raised four times the money Gore did, but they never discussed the sizes of the respective donations. Guess why.

6 posted on 08/28/2002 2:56:38 PM PDT by Stultis
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To: Stultis
This was one of the men funding the Gore recounts skirsch signed up 2000-12-27

I think that he came to FR when someone took issue with some of his claims (doubt he ever donated to keep FR running).

He got media play as being a "registered Republican" who was funding Gore's recount. Voting in the primary doesn't mean that you support any of the candidates on that ballot.

On his website he stated that he never had found a candidate such as Gore; a man who he agrees with on EVERY issue. Yeah, some Republican.

7 posted on 08/28/2002 3:11:52 PM PDT by weegee
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