Conversion?

[grendelgongon]

yesthattom has mentioned Howard Dean's campaign a number of times, but after the disappointment of Clinton the first time around I found it hard to believe it might be worthwhile. After reading the campaign web site, though, I have to say I am preliminarily impressed. Still feeling cynical and burned about the Democratic Party in general, but maybe

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[geminigirl]

You live!

I thought what you were looking for was on his website...if it's not, I can ask rivka who has been working on his campaign.

[grendelgongon]

*grin* I do live, though I'm not out of the woods of new jobness and new houseness to say much beyond that at this point :) *waves and hugs*

[geminigirl]

New jobness is good. New houseness is also good.

*hugs* to you too.

I hope to see you soon-ish. :)

[scherzoid]

A good source for campaign finance information on all candidates is the Center for Responsive Politics. Their summary for the Dean campaign is at http://www.opensecrets.org/presidential/summary.asp?ID=N00025663.

His top contributor is AOL Time Warner ($46,225). Interesting.

[bubblebabble]

meaning, employees of AOLTW. (Contributors of $200+ to federal candidates are required by law to report their occupation and employer.) Often the contributions really do reflect company encouragement (say, if most of upper management and their spouses give the maximum), but sometimes it's somewhat of an accident that 20 random employees happened to work for Company X.

More detail at http://www.opensecrets.org/presidential/contribmethod.asp?ID=N00025663&Cycle=2004 , if you're really curious.

P.S. Will someone tell me why, WHY, Lyndon LaRouche has received more donations than Kucinich? $&^%!(#&*@^!!!

[grendelgongon]

*nod* I'd more easily believe $45Kish in coincidence than Bush's various 200K+ "spontaneous outpourings of affection" from Merrill Lynch etc. *grin*

It really does seem wrong that LaRouche has more donations than Kucinich though!

[grendelgongon]

Thanks! That's a great resource. I'm quite chagrinned that I didn't know about it before now.

[intuition_ist]

check out lj user navrins's page for more dean info. dean may be our 'last best hope'.