Who Will End
The Control of Big Money in Washington DC?
Top $$ Contributors to 2004 Presidential Candidates
source:  www.opensecrets.org

John Kerry

Skadden, Arps et al

$101,800

Citigroup Inc

$72,000

Piper Rudnick

$71,500

Mintz, Levin et al

$64,740

Goldman Sachs

$62,600

Robins, Kaplan et al

$62,250

Harvard University

$57,550

Hill, Holliday et al

$50,750
Total    $16,682,881

John Edwards

Goldman Sachs

$86,350

Baron & Budd

$79,400

Girardi & Keese

$63,600

Beasley, Allen et al

$63,070

Weitz & Luxenberg

$50,285

Simmons Firm

$49,000

Robinson & Cole

$48,200

Robinson, Calcagnie & Robinson

$38,250
Total    $15,381,857

Al Sharpton

Radio One

$15,200

Hawkins Food

$8,000

Pepsico Inc

$6,000

Dental One

$6,000

Black Enterprise Magazine

$6,000

Don Coleman Advertising

$5,500

Sheet Metal Workers Union

$5,000

Berdon LLP

$5,000
Total    $366,007
Dennis Kucinich

Borders & Borders

$6,000

United Steelworkers of America

$6,000

University of Illinois

$5,238

Sheet Metal Workers Union

$5,000

Progressive Choices PAC

$5,000

University of California

$4,800

State of California

$4,550

Schulman Schulman

$4,000
Total    $1,643,998
Who is indebted to special interests?

The media will tell you that these figures indicate that Kerry and Edwards are the 'electable' candidates.
The truth is that Dennis Kucinich will turn the world around, $$ for schools not bombs.
He will create policies that serve people rather than corporate profits.
We all want a peaceful revolution, we can vote them out right.
This is it, Now is the Time, Kucinich is the One!

Expose the Posers

Democratic Presidential Candidates' Assests
Not only do the posers take money from the corporations, they have millions invested in them.
This is just a partial list of corporations the posers are invested in.
John
Forbes Kerry
13mb pdf 		General Mills, Medtronic, Bristol-Myers, Proctor & Gamble, Merck, Alliant Energy, SBC Communications, Exxon Mobil, Verizon, Suntrust Banks, MBIA, Intel, Microsoft, 3M, General Electric, BP, Abbot Labs, Walgreens, ConocoPhillips, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Gillette, Bellsouth, American Express, Monsanto, Fleet Bank, AT&T, Concast, Palm, Disney, Del Monte, Heinz, Biomet, Nokia, Pfizer, Anheuser Busch, ADP, Bank of America, Duke Energy, EDS, Imperial Oil, Gap, Goldman Sachs, Hershey, Home Depot, IBM, JP Morgan, Johnson & Johnson, Oracle, Pepsico, WalMart (+ $1,000,000)

Do you know what this is?-  Allegheny Cnty Pa Hosp Dev Auth Rev
Seems to be a public hospital trust or something- I don't know.  But by the time you get to page 25 of Kerry's 82 page financial disclosure, you will see dozens of such investments where Kerry 'earned' more than $1,000,000 of interest in each one- in just one year!
John Edwards
4mb pdf
 Bank of America, Bristol Meyers, Chevron-Texaco, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, Dell, Duke Energy, Exxon Mobil, Ford, General Electric, Hilton, Intel, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Liberty Acorn, MBNA, Merck, Pepsico, Verizon, Walgreens, Walmart
Dennis Kucinich
2mb pdf
 		One questioner at the Taft High School event asked Kucinich, as delicately as she could, how his net worth could possibly be so low. He paused, smiling, and replied that while he had respect for the material world, his primary pursuits had been involved with providing service to others.

You can see the Posers are invested in Corporate America across the board-
well represented in oil, pharmaceuticals, banks, telecom, GM foods, etc

All of these corporations stand to lose profits if Kucinich is elected.
Dennis Kucinich will return America policies to putting

People BEFORE Profits

Will you side with the corps and Vote for Profits
or side with us and Vote for People?
benfrank.net

Can you tell the true  Man of the People  from the Posers?

Candidate

No. of $200+
Contributors

No. of $2,000+
Contributors

% from Donors
of $2,000+

% from Donors
of $200 or less

Kerry, John

12,717

4,362

55%

12%

Edwards, John

10,985

4,396

65%

3%

Kucinich, Dennis

2,141

179

11%

65%

Sharpton, Al

209

78

64%

9%

Kerry, Edwards take a spin with special interests - St. Petersburg Times
The Center for Public Integrity:  "The idea that Kerry has not helped or benefited from a specific special interest, which he has said, is utterly absurd. Anyone who gets millions of dollars over time, and thousands of dollars from specific donors, knows there's a symbiotic relationship. He needs the donors' money. The donors need favors. Welcome to Washington. That's how it works."Oh yes. The AP also reported that "at least three times in his Senate career, (Kerry) has recommended individuals for positions at federal home loan banks just before or after receiving political contributions from the nominees."

Source: bop2004.org
 Net Worth Annual Income
John Forbes Kerry 
 $198,794,683 - $839,038,000 $15,550,935 - $77,540,000
John Edwards
 $8,707,072 -   $36,500,000 $1,429,330 -   $1,763,304
Dennis Kucinich
 $2,002 -          $32,000 $201 -          $1,000
Al Sharpton
 no data
 no data

John "show special interests the door"  Kerry    Leads in Lobby Money - washington post
Kerry, a 19-year veteran of the Senate who fought and won four expensive political campaigns, has received nearly $640,000 from lobbyists, many representing telecommunications and financial companies with business before his committee, according to Federal Election Commission data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
For his presidential race, Kerry has raised more than $225,000 from lobbyists, better than twice as much as his nearest Democratic rival. Like President Bush, Kerry has also turned to a number of corporate officials and lobbyists to "bundle" contributions from smaller donors, often in sums of $50,000 or more, records provided by his campaign show.

Kerry is nearly a billionaire.  He is not a 'man of the people'.  End of story.

Edwards, well he's just a multi-millionaire, not quite on the same level as Kerry.  True, but he is still far more invested in the system- he's spent his life enriching himself and now he's pretending to be a man of the people.  He is a phony politician.  Don't you remember bush making a lot of promises and then breaking them in 2001?  You need to look past his platitudes and promises look at his past actions.  Ask Edwards why he co-sponored the war resolution, why he voted for the patriot act and why he can't give any specifics in his proposals.  He refuses to give a timetable for the troops return home.

It's so obvious, compare their speeches at Virginia Tech, which do you prefer-
Edwards vs
 Kucinich
Empty Rhetoric
 or
 Specific Actions to Turn Our Country Around

Expose the Posers printable flyer (pdf)

DK Resources- spread the message of the Peaceful Revolution

 benfrank.net - not associated with the official kucinich campaign, just a regular american working for a better world