From the diaries. More proof that a vote for Joe is a vote for Bush. mcjoan
(Partially cross-posted from LamontBlog.)
David Lightman of the Hartford Courant digs into Joe's FEC filing today and finds massive amounts from the "White House donor network" in a must-read article (written the day after Joe held a press conference claiming poverty):
Lieberman's 1,877-page campaign finance report, made public by the Federal Election Commission this week, shows that while he relied on a lot of familiar Democratic names to help him collect $5.1 million since beginning his general election campaign Aug. 9 as an independent, he also got significant help from the White House donor network....
Among the post-primary contributors to the Connecticut senator, running as an independent for a fourth term, was Joseph Allbaugh, one of the four members of Bush's tight inner circle during his 2000 presidential campaign, and two Republican Senate committee chairmen.
Also giving was Melvin Sembler, former ambassador to Italy and longtime friend of the Bush family, former assistant Republican Senate Leader Don Nickles, and dozens of others from Texas, Missouri, Colorado and other states where Lieberman usually does not find contributors....
From Texas came typically Republican donors like Allbaugh, Bush's 2000 national campaign manager and now an Austin-based business and homeland security consultant; Benjamin Warren, chief executive officer of ITC Trading Company; Leo Fields, a Dallas investment adviser; Alex Thomas, a San Antonio investor; and Robert Marbut, a San Antonio television executive.
From Florida, there was Sembler and his wife, Betty; Lake Worth builder Bruce Toll; St. Petersburg college executive Carl Kuttler; and Weston attorney Teddy Klinghoffer.
And from all over the country came other big GOP names: Maryland attorney Peter Winik; New York corporate executive Lewis Eisenberg; Greensboro, N.C., foundation executive E.S. Melvin, Washington consultant Debra M. Bryant and Chattanooga retiree Dudley Porter.
And even more:
The list reads like a Who's Who of players at the Capitol: American Council of Life Insurers, John Deere, MetLife, GlaxoSmithKline, Phoenix Companies, KPMG, Raytheon, Heineken, Bechtel, Laborers, American Federation of Government Employees, Honeywell International, Constellation Energy, AT&T, Walgreens, Friends of American Hospitals, Friends of Israel, John Hancock Financial Services, Allstate, Pfizer, BMX Technologies, Lumber Dealers, Northeast Utilities Employees, the Farmers Group, American Apparel and Footwear, Real Estate Investment Trust, American Bankers Association and others.
The same FEC filing shows that Joe Lieberman had a $380,000+ slush fund of expenditures marked "Petty Cash/Stipend Volunteers" that he spent entirely in just the twelve days two weeks preceding the primary.
Read the whole article in the Courant, and keep digging through the 1,800+ pages of Joe's 3Q FEC Report.
That $380,000 slush fund came from these folks.