Extractions: International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Autos SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters Your E-mail Alerts RSS ... Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com Howard Dean Story Tools VIDEO Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean announces he will not accept public funding for his campaign. (November 8) PLAY VIDEO SPECIAL REPORT Dean: Profile Dean: Issues Dean: Money Dean: Career Donors ... Special Report YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Howard Dean America Votes 2004 Fund Raising Politics or Create your own Manage alerts What is this? WASHINGTON (AP) In a historic move, Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean announced Saturday he is skipping public financing and the spending limits that come with it, hoping his money-raising power can help win the nomination and unseat President Bush. The 2004 race is the first time that candidates from both major parties will forgo the Watergate-era public financing system. Bush also is opting out, as he did in the 2000 Republican primaries and raised a record $100-plus million. Dean made his decision based on a high-tech tally of 600,000 supporters, whom he asked to vote by e-mail, Internet, telephone or regular mail through Friday.
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Extractions: Web posted at: 6:24 p.m. EDT (2224 GMT) WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, August 8) Congressional Republicans and Clinton administration officials sparred again on Sunday over a $792 billion GOP tax cut plan passed last week that President Bill Clinton has vowed to veto. In an interview on NBC's "Meet The Press," White House Chief of Staff John Podesta repeatedly referred to the GOP plan as a "risky tax scheme." Podesta said, "This tax cut is bloated. It uses up the entire surplus. It provides not one cent for Medicare. It provides not one cent to extend the solvency of Social Security. It will not result in paying down the debt." In response, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R- Mississippi) characterized the comments of White House officials on the tax cut plan as ranging from misstatements to "downright lies." "What part of the tax cut is it that the president doesn't like?" Lott said on ABC's "This Week." "Is he opposed to eliminating the marriage penalty tax? Is he opposed to more incentives for saving for education for the children? Is he opposed to eliminating the death tax?" "Is he opposed to leaving some of the people's hard-earned money in their pockets back home?" Lott said.
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Extractions: Involved Bush's 2005 Inauguration Celebration: Brought to You by Corporate America Final Analysis: A Few People Dominate the Giving *NEW* The enormous sums bundled to boost the campaigns of President Bush and John Kerry accentuate the ability of well-financed special interests to dominate the financing of presidential campaigns and underscore the need for reform. The Final Four? *NEW* The new bundlers, all Pioneers, are Ted Cruz, solicitor general of Texas; Peter Davidson, senior vice president of Verizon; Christopher Jenny, senior partner of The Parthenon Group consulting firm; and attorney Tony Parker. Both Jenny and Parker were Pioneers in 2000 as well. Many of the newly named Pioneers are well connected with the Bush administration. Cruz was an associate deputy attorney general at the Justice Department. Davidson was the general counsel to the U.S. Trade Representative. Parker served in both the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations. See the number of Rangers and Pioneers by State.
