Bush's Backers Donate Heavily to Veteran Ads

By GLEN JUSTICE and ERIC LICHTBLAU
The New York Times
Published: September 11, 2004

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 - Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, an advocacy group that jolted the presidential race with commercials questioning Senator John Kerry's military service, said it had raised $6.7 million in a windfall brought about by the group's high profile in recent weeks.

Several of the largest donors are longtime supporters of President Bush, according to a financial disclosure report filed on Friday with the Federal Election Commission.

The largest contributor was T. Boone Pickens, a famous Texas oilman and longtime Republican supporter who was a major political backer of Mr. Bush's father, who gave $500,000 to the Swift boat group. Aubrey McClendon, chief executive of Chesapeake Energy in Oklahoma, gave $250,000; Bob Perry, another Bush supporter from Texas, gave $200,000 to seed the group; and Albert Huddleston, a Texas energy executive who has raised money for Mr. Bush, gave $100,000, records show.

Sam Wyly, the wealthy Texas entrepreneur who financed commercials attacking Senator John McCain in the 2000 Republican primary against Mr. Bush, also made the list at $10,000 , as did his brother Charles, records show. At least two Swift boat donors are also listed as Bush Pioneers, meaning they raised at least $100,000 for Mr. Bush.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/11/politics/campaign/11swift.html?hp

so long...we all knew they were backed by big GOP $$

They got their deep pocket supporters but we have Moveon and each and every one of us can give a few dollars to run ads showing the problems created by the bush teams policies.

Sad it has to come to this. Sadly, big fucking media will be the $$$ benificiaries.

and the usual assortment of Texas oil barons.

Fuck the New York Times and their biased bullshit.

Even in an article that should be helpful to our side, they have to have bullshit pro-Bush headlines.

If the roles were reversed the headline would be something about "Bush bashing group supported by those close to Kerry"

It would be much more accurate.

Had to see if I could find a picture of T. Boone Pickens. He looks slimey.





OSU Coach Les Miles presents T. Boone Pickens with an OSU jersey with Pickens name on it. Oklahoma State University alumnus T. Boone Pickens announced a $70 million commitment to OSU, his alma mater, Thursday morning, the largest single gift ever to OSU. T. Boone Pickens intends to form a $20 million trust to support OSU's stadium renovation. Staff photo by Paul B. Southerland

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He seems to love to be noticed!

how much money do the greedy bastards need??? After a point, it's about nothing but the size of their you-know-whats.

and we have some real "heavy weights" in our Cartel that helped Bush get elected in 2000, but now hate him. We raised a $1/4 Million in donations in one night.

If interested you can read about it in the Insider News links below.

Here's the tread on our little fund raiser - Good Read on one of our key issues.

Republicans Skip RNC Bush Speech-See Fahrenheit 9/11 Instead
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x740187

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Beltway and Texas Republicans
Against Bush-Cheney ’04, Inc.
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"Insider’s News”, Vol 1 - Kerry-Edwards Campaign Doing Well
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x748458
“Insider’s News” Vol 1.1 - Great Anti-Bush Sites
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x756409

T Boone Pickens, Sam Wyly, Harland Crow have donated so far.

Keep an eye out for Tom Hicks, Richard Rainwater and Louis Beecherl.