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	527 group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Under federal election law, coordination between an election campaign and a 527 group is not allowed.
		Attorney Benjamin Ginsberg pointed out that it was not uncommon or illegal for lawyers to represent campaigns or political parties while also representing 527 groups.
		Joint Victory* Campaign 2004 is a joint fund-raising committee run by America Coming Together and the Media Fund.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/527_Group (589 words)

	USATODAY.com - Stem cell advocates raise millions in California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Campaign officials returned a $50,000 contribution made by generic drug maker Agvar Chemicals of Little Falls, N.J. The company is managed by Agnes Varis, a major national Democrat donor who has given at least $1.5 million to Democrat-supporting independent expenditure organization Joint Victory Campaign 2004.
		The campaign declined to discuss the return of Varis' contribution, which was reported by the California secretary of state on Aug. 19.
		Varis said no one from the campaign has contacted her and she is unsure why her donation was returned.
	www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/state/california/2004-08-24-stem-cell-propostion_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA (661 words)

	Saddam Hussein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The attack occurred in conjunction with the 1988 al-Anfal campaign designed to reassert central control of the mostly Kurdish population of areas of northern Iraq and defeat the Kurdish peshmerga rebel forces.
		Particular attention will be paid to his activities in violent campaigns against the Kurds in the north during the Iran-Iraq War, and against the Shiites in the south in 1991 and 1999 to put down revolts.
		On July 18, 2005, Saddam was charged by the Special Tribunal with the first of an expected series of charges, relating to the mass killings of the inhabitants of the village of Dujail in 1982 after a failed assassination attempt against him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saddam_Hussein (9688 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Stem cell advocates raise millions
		Corzine is a wealthy Democrat, a former chairman of the Wall Street firm of Goldman Sachs and Co. and current chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
		In particular, the campaign is expected to begin airing television commercials beginning later this month of early in September, campaign officials said.
		Campaign officials returned a $50,000 contribution made by generic drug maker Agvar Chemicals Inc. of Little Falls, N.J. The company is managed by Agnes Varis, a major national Democrat donor who has given at least $1.5 million to Democrat-supporting "soft money" organization Joint Victory Campaign 2004.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20040823-1656-ca-stemcellcontributors.html (571 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Democrats Forming Parallel Campaign
		Led by veterans of presidential and congressional campaigns, a coalition of Democratic Party interest groups, armed with millions of dollars in soft money, is rapidly constructing an unprecedented political operation designed to supplement the activities of Sen. John F. Kerry's campaign in the effort to defeat President Bush.
		The Democratic groups have created five organizations to oversee facets of the campaign: paid advertising; voter identification and turnout; communications, polling, research and rapid response; fundraising; and the coordination of the operations of more than two dozen liberal organizations.
		The Democratic coalition includes many of the party's most experienced strategists, spokesmen and fundraisers, as well former staffers for Kerry's campaign and the campaigns of several of his rivals.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A44513-2004Mar9?language=printer (1089 words)

	Journal Times Editorials » Weak-kneed effort on lobbying reform doesn't do the job (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Worse, the “reforms” that it does have stand to be watered down further in compromises to reach a joint piece of legislation with the House version.
		Lobbying and campaign contributions are not the problem.
		We actually need lobbying to educate our leaders on all sides of each issue, and we need campaign contributions because otherwise the only people that can run for office are old, rich, white people.
	www.journaltimes.com /nucleus/index.php?itemid=4879 (1040 words)

	MTV.com - Choose or Lose - Headlines
		These organizations, along with the Joint Victory Campaign, America Votes and other 527s are helping Senator Kerry to draw level with President Bush by financing ads in Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona, Michigan, Ohio and 13 other states.
		These groups have also coordinated their efforts to maximize effectiveness: ACT is in charge of get-out-the vote efforts; the Joint Victory Campaign is deemed a combined fund-raising committee; America Votes works on progressive organization activities; and the Thunder Road Group is committed to research and rapid response.
		They argue that Kerry's campaign is illegally benefiting from the organizations and violating the law that prohibits using soft money in coordination with federal candidates.
	www.politicsonline.com /coverage/mtv2004 (959 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
		A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part by funds from the drug trade.
		A so-called campaign of pacification followed, during which time an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 individuals lost their lives.
		The US naval victory over a Japanese fleet off Midway in 1942 was one of the turning points of World War II.
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html (15472 words)

	527 Organizations and Donors
		Joint Victory Campaign 2004 ($7,750,000), America Coming Together ($2,995,000), MoveOn.org Voter Fund ($2,500,000), Marijuana Policy Project Political Fund ($630,000), Young Democrats of America ($450,000), Punk Voter, Inc. ($50,000).
		Joint Victory Campaign 2004 ($6,964,846), MoveOn.org Voter Fund ($971,427), New America Optimists ($900,000), Iowa Senate 2002 ($328,000), Gore/Lieberman Recount Committee ($200,000), Americans for Progress and Opportunity ($150,000), Campaign for Americas Future - Labor ($100,651), Keep hope Alive Political Action Committee ($100,000), Progressive Majority ($99,090), New Hampshire Senate 2002 ($50,000), McAuliffe for Chair ($5,000).
		Joint Victory Campaign 2004 ($750,000), New York Senate 2000 ($250,000), Americans for Jobs ($200,000), Gore/Lieberman Recount Committee ($100,000), New Jersey 2002 ($50,000), Committee for Leadership and Progress - NY ($25,000), Committee for Leadership and Progress - VA ($25,000), Missouri Senate 2000 (15,000).
	www.my-orbit.com /527.html (1034 words)

	Votelaw: Shadow Democratic Party
		Led by veterans of presidential and congressional campaigns, a coalition of Democratic Party interest groups, armed with millions of dollars in soft money, is rapidly constructing an unprecedented political operation designed to supplement the activities of Sen. John F. Kerry's...
		The newest visible sign of the coalition's activities will be seen beginning today, when a $5 million advertising campaign begins in 17 battleground states.
		But behind the scenes, Democratic operatives are moving to set up coordinated national and state-by-state operations that amount to the equivalent of a full presidential campaign, minus the candidate.
	www.votelaw.com /blog/archives/001445.html (345 words)

	Exposing Democrat Campaign Rhetoric, Part 1 - JB Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In stark contrast, Bush/Cheney is funded 88.9% by legal individual campaign contributions, 1% by legal PAC contributions, and as of this weeks jump, 10.1% by special interest groups.
		Fact — Bush and the RNC began the 2004 campaign process by attacking Kerry’s, and later Edwards Senate records, both in terms of missed meetings, and in terms of voting wrong and opposite their campaign rhetoric.
		It was Bush who opposed the use of 527’s from day one by taking the issue to the FEC, and then to court, where they were told the 527’s fall through a loophole in the law, and to form their own 527’s.
	www.americandaily.com /article/4769 (1187 words)

	The Shadow Campaign
		And, no matter how successful they are, they are certain to be outgunned by the cash-rich Bush campaign, which last week began a TV ad campaign, costing as much as $10 million, in at least 16 states and on national cable channels.
		President Bush's re-election campaign on Tuesday asked the Federal Election Commission to investigate the Media Fund for airing the anti-Bush TV ads, which the campaign calls illegal.
		If the number and calibre of past campaign bigwigs now working for 527s -- not to mention the ease with which 527s and parties can surreptitiously coordinate -- are any indication, it's not likely to be a problem.
	www.motherjones.com /news/dailymojo/2004/03/03_519.html (1131 words)

	9/1/04 Prog Dems Back Kerry
		Terri Giles, state director for West Virginia, said the campaign was seeing a "total transformation of people's attitudes toward politics." The last four years have been horrible for West Virginia, she said, as the state lost 10,000 manufacturing jobs in steel, chemical and coal-mining industries.
		She noted that the "527" committees already were successful in countering Bush's campaign this past spring, when the Republicans, with their fundraising advantage, planned to damage Kerry so badly when he emerged from the primaries that the Democrat would be crippled going into the convention.
		The Kucinich campaign resolved to have an impact on the platform and it was a hard struggle, she said, but insertion of language calling for a reduction of troops in Iraq was a "significant victory," she said.
	www.populist.com /04.15.cullendems.html (4641 words)

	AlterNet: Election 2004: See How They Fund
		Campaigns & Elections magazine has put together a list of the URLs for all of the 50 secretaries of state in the Union.
		The Media Fund runs advertising campaigns that are considered federal spending; its sister 527, Americans Coming Together (ACT), does "grassroots" polling and voter registration that counts as state and local spending.
		She has given $900,000 to the Joint Victory Campaign (JVC), but the Washington Post has reported that she is also the person behind the little-known Sustainable World Corporation, which has given an additional $3.1 million to JVC since appearing out of nowhere last December.
	www.alternet.org /election04/19351 (3054 words)

	In the Bullpen » Does This Flyer Connect Bush to SBVT? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Kerry campaign e-mailed the flier to news organizations Friday, declaring that the Bush-Cheney campaign was “busted” for coordinating “in their smear campaign against John Kerry.”
		He and his campaign are threatening legal action to television stations airing the SBVT commercials, creating commercials refuting the allegations and attacking Bush’s record, pursuing legal action against the Bush/Cheney campaign and even attempting to ban the book from bookstores.
		According to Democrats this flyer found at a Bush/Cheney campaign headquarters is proof that the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth and the Bush/Cheney campaign are in cahoots (via In The Bullpen)….
	www.inthebullpen.com /?p=220 (1199 words)

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		Now defunct, Joint Victory Campaign 2004 (JVC) was the chief fundraising entity for the Democrat Shadow Party during the 2004 election cycle.
		Janice Ann Enright was the Treasurer of Joint Victory Campaign 2004.
		Ickes and Enright advised Hillary Clinton during her successful New York Senate campaign in 1999 and 2000 - a victory widely attributed to Ickes' ruthless style of backroom politics.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /funderprofile.asp?fndid=5342&category=79 (576 words)

	About us \| Personal Democracy Forum
		Prior to joining Public Campaign in 1997, Sifry was an editor and writer with The Nation magazine for thirteen years, writing widely on domestic and international politics, especially the Middle East, his first love and specialty.
		Brian is the editor of Campaign Web Review, a blog examining the use of the Internet by candidates, campaigns and organizations, activists and the media during the 2004 cycle.
		Her populist grassroots campaign was widely praised for putting the media spotlight on the corrupting influence of special interest money on American politics.
	www.personaldemocracy.com /about (5593 words)

	The Reform Institute \| For Campaign and Election Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If you thought the new campaign finance law ended such huge "soft money" contributions, think again; they can't go to political parties, and they can't be solicited by politicians, but they are flowing freely to these outside groups.
		As the report just filed by Joint Victory Campaign 2004 illustrates, even the required disclosure has its limits.
		To its credit, Joint Victory Campaign 2004 supplied, when we asked, the identity of the mystery giver: According to Democratic strategist Harold Ickes, it is Linda Pritzker, a Houston investor who is a member of the Chicago Hyatt hotel family.
	reforminstitute.org /cgi-data/article/files/155.shtml (416 words)

	Silent Partners - The Center for Public Integrity
		Soros was the third-largest individual donor during the first quarter—giving $1.6 million—while Bing contributed nearly $5 million to the Joint Victory Fund and another $150,000 to a new organization called Americans for Progress & Opportunity, which drew heavy support from trial lawyers.
		Not counting the Joint Victory Campaign, 15 political non-profits raised at least $1 million during the quarter, including four 527s operated by labor unions.
		The 527 groups—not counting the Joint Victory Campaign 2004—combined to spend $50 million during the first quarter.
	www.publicintegrity.org /527/report.aspx?aid=120 (932 words)

	527 surge takes Kerry past Bush=The Hill.com= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Approximately $14 million of the $15 million raised by the Joint Victory Campaign, a joint fundraising committee for the Media Fund and Americans Coming Together (ACT), was disbursed to those to groups, according to Political MoneyLine.com, making their fundraising totals appear greater.
		An official with the president’s re-election campaign said it had raised a few million over $50 million during the first three months of the year.
		Hollywood producer Steve Bing, head of Shangri La Entertainment, gave $5 million to the Joint Victory Campaign, Peter Lewis, president of Progressive Corp., gave $2 million to the fund, and Daniel Abraham, president of Slim-Fast, gave $500,000.
	www.hillnews.com /news/042004/kerry.aspx (893 words)

	Election 2004: Despite New Campaign Laws, Presidential Race Sees Record Donations
		The McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, passed in 2002, banned corporations, unions and individuals from making unlimited donations to political parties.
		This year could be considered the year when campaign ads have reached a new low.
		Joint Victory Campaign, a Democratic supporter, has raised over $20 million in California out of its $65 million total.
	journalism.berkeley.edu /projects/election2004/archives/2004/11/despite_new_cam.html (975 words)

	"Making a Dent in Democratic Disinformation: The Swift Boat Veterans" by Lester Dent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One SBVFT was a volunteer for a state Bush vets committee, but when it was noted by the Bush campaign that he had appeared in the second SBVFT ad, he was asked to resign and the story was given to the press by the Bush campaign.
		Central to the critique of Bush campaign ties to the Swift vets is their use of Spaeth Communications, founded by Merrie Spaeth, who has worked public relations for a number of Republican causes and married a Rep with ties to Bush, Rove and O'Neill.
		Victory Campaign 2004 supports an aggressive national strategy that is attacking the right-wing on the ground and on the air.
	www.chronwatch.com /content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=9334 (1898 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Shadow Party: Part II Continued 3 by David Horowitz and Richard Poe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		JVC 2004 is the chief fundraising entity for the Democrat Shadow Party.
		JVC collects contributions for these two groups and divides the money between them, whence the funds are disbursed further down the line, as needed.
		Seven days later, it donated $3.1 million to Joint Victory Campaign 2004, which then divided the money between ACT and the Media Fund.
	www.frontpagemag.com /articles/readarticle.asp?ID=15411&p=1 (2068 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Wealthy Donors Help Liberal 527 Groups Amass Huge Money Advantage
		Even though the 527 groups are prohibited by law from consulting with the Kerry campaign or Democratic National Committee, they can air television ads supporting him and criticizing President Bush.
		Casey speculated that Democrats had 527s in mind when the campaign finance law was enacted, and therefore, wasted little time getting them up and running.
		Despite their huge advantage with 527s, liberals are still racing to raise more money, if only to counter what Bush has been able to bring in to his own campaign.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/1270697.html (960 words)

	Campaign Finance Reform? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Republican campaign finance reform zealots like Senator John McCain and Congressman Chris Shays promised a cleaner election process as they successfully lobbied for passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA).
		Topping the list of wealthy individual “reformers” is the infamous George Soros, who shelled out $4.7 million of his own money for the campaign finance reform movement from 1997 to March 2001, according to the ACU report.
		Campaign experts like Kay J. Maxwell, president of the League of Women Voters, have petitioned the FEC to close the loophole for 527s.
	www.catholicexchange.com /vm/index.asp?art_id=24936 (990 words)

	Newsradio 620 WTMJ: The Jeff Wagner Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During this election cycle, the Joint Victory Campaign 2004 has spent approximately $35 million (60% of which went to The Media Fund).
		The relatively small dollar donors to the Joint Victory Campaign 2004 are a who’s who of Hollywood stars and has-beens.
		In particular, he has given over $6.9 million to the Joint Victory Campaign, almost $1 million to the Moveon.Org Voter Fund and approximately $900,000 to a group called the New American Optimists.
	www.620wtmj.com /_content/talk/jeffwagner/index.asp?id=14&entry=4251 (1198 words)

	House seeks to impose new limits on soft money or House votes to close campaign-fund loophole
		Campaign finance reform advocates say the current rules allow a small number of wealthy donors to have an inordinate influence on federal elections.
		But some analysts believe the most potent 527 campaign was run by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -- underwritten by $8 million in contributions from Houston home builder Bob Perry, a major GOP donor -- that shook the race by questioning Kerry's military record during the Vietnam War.
		The House approved a bill Wednesday that would limit individual donations to $5,000 to groups outside the parties that engage in politics, which are called 527 committees for a section of the tax code that governs them.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/06/MNGCGI4CA51.DTL (1086 words)

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