Day: August 14, 2004

Kerry Campaign Contributions Lack Disclosure

Just noticed something interesting when comparing campaign contributions against President Bush’s over at OpenSecrets.org. The OpenSecrets folks track the “quality of disclosure” associated with campaign contributions, described as follows:
“BEST EFFORTS” RULES: When making solicitations, candidates, PACs and party committees must make “best efforts” to obtain and report the name, address, occupation and employer of each contributor who gives more than $200 in a calendar year. In order to show that the committee has made “best efforts,” solicitations must specifically request that information and inform contributors that the committee is required by law to use its best efforts to collect and report it.
Most members of Congress fully identify the great majority of their donors’ occupations and employers

Now, it gets interesting

Yet another Swift Boat prediction: Unfit For Command on sale tomorrow. Expect the major media blackout to show its first significant cracks, if not outright crumbling, with stories timed to coincide with the release (either Sunday or Monday).
Also: I hadn’t noticed this page on the Swift Vets for Truth site before, but the deconstruction of the group-photograph Kerry used in a campaign ad is yet another devastating bit of truth…