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Posted on 02/20/2005 1:21:03 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Although his political account bulges with $4.7 million in cash and he has no opponent in sight, US Senator Edward M. Kennedy is on a fund-raising rampage from coast to coast, a campaign that Democratic supporters say is designed to leave him without a Republican opponent for the first election in his four decades in the Senate.
The Kennedy fund-raising bandwagon comes to Boston March 4, when the senator and his family are throwing a birthday party for him expected to raise at least $500,000. Kennedy, who is turning 73, is pressing the state's Democratic establishment for the event that will hit donors up for a minimum $1,000 donation.
But the birthday party is only a small part of Kennedy's travels across America as he attempts to build an $8 million campaign fund by the end of this year. A similar $1,000-a-head birthday fund-raiser is scheduled next week in Washington, helping Kennedy raise close to $500,000 more, aides say.
He just returned last weekend from a swing through California, where he held a series of events that yielded several hundred thousand dollars. In October, a fund-raising party in New York City raised him another several hundred thousand dollars.
Those close to Kennedy say he would savor a free pass in 2006, when he plans to seek his eighth full six-year term in the US Senate. They say that by demonstrating a strong fund-raising operation, he hopes to discourage the Republicans and Governor Mitt Romney from fielding a candidate against him.
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I wish he would take a long drive off a short bridge.
The Mass-hole will probably be re-elected easily in Mass-a-taxes
It didn't work last time.
Although he's far too fat to squeeze out of a car window now.
Only William Weld or Romney would have even a chance...
LOL Give him a couple martini's and the car keys!!!!
I hope he's still in office in 08. It can only help the GOP.
I'm crossing my fingers that he he gives it all up due to ill health. A new Donk would be easier to defeat.
It appears that Massatwoshits, has far more than their two Senators to thank for that name...
Fat Ted has enough boyancy to keep a 67 olds afloat now.
yeah,...he would've been OK driving in Joey Chitwood's Hell Divers
Nooooo! If you give Teddy a drink and car keys, some innocent person will get hurt.
$500,000 that should keep him in scotch for a week. ;-) Boy it would be nice to knock old teddy out of the picture . 73 , it will not be long.
Deetes wrote:
Boy it would be nice to knock old teddy out of the picture . 73 , it will not be long.
--> I wish it was soon. Problem is, these evil bastiches always find a way to croak last. Like the song, "Only the good die young"
Bloated, alcoholic Teddy and the SS Oldsmobile are gearing-up for another run? Surprise!
Has Teddy ever been truly and properly freeped?
Sounds like The Swimmer is clearly feeling "Red Heat" even in normally "chilly" New England.
One of the swift boat vets should run against this clown and kick his butt.
An incumbant seeks to raise so much money that no one would dare challenge him within his party or without, giving the people no chance to really choose who is going to represent them. It's him or him, take your pick. How...uh...democratic (??)
One down. One to go.
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