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• Campaign Finance Information Center Calculating influence: How it all adds up.
• Center for Responsive Politics track money in politics
• The Crisis Paper's ﾓElection Fraudﾔ page). 
• Fairvote Public Interest Guide to Redistricting
• FEC Watch  who gets how much from whom
• FollowtheMoney
• Fundrace block party, neighbor search, money maps, hotels, airlines
•   ﾓNo Paper Trail Left Behindﾔ Dennis Loo'sand 
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• Is Obrador showing Americans the way.
• PoliticalMoneyLine,  "join Congress and see the world."
• Top Donors, Open Secrets 2004 Election overview, Top Overall Donors
• Texans for Public Justice Civil Complaint  against Texans for a Republican Majority  (COPY of Organizations list below) 
• WhiteHouseForSale corporate inauguration of Bush, Dean and Kerry contributors list
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• NewsFollowUp.com microcap stock charts....ignored by main stream financial press and see Corporate Fraud.  and Naked Short Selling

• Open Secrets, Top Donors, Republican
• Morgan Stanley, 
• Dell Computer
• MBNA Bank
• Monsanto
• McDonalds
• Recording Industry Association of America
• National Beer Wholesalers Association, 
• SBC Communications
• UBS Americas 
• Wall Mart Stores 
• Merrill Lynch 
• National Association of Home Builders 
• United Parcel Service 
• National Auto Dealers Association 
• American Hospital Association 
• Price Waterhouse Coopers 
• Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu 
• Ernst & Young 
• Credit Suisse First Boston 
• Lockheed Martin 
• American Bankers Association 
• Blank Rome LLP 
• MBNA Corp 
• Northrup Grumann 
• Verizon Communications 
• Fed Ex Corp 
• Associated Builders & Contractors 
• Pfizer Inc. 
• AFLAC Inc 
• KPMG LLP 
• American Dental Association 
• General Dynamics
• Wachovia
• American Medical Association
• Bell South Corp
• Union Pacific Corp
• Southern Company
• Wells Fargo
• Cendant Corp
• American Financial Group
• Metropolitan Life
• FMR Corp
• Altria, Phillip Morris
• US Government
• National Association Insurance & Financial Advisors

• ARMPAC Americans for a Republican Majority, Tom Delay
• Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Racicot, Gillespie, 
• Christian Legal Society, bars gays from their campus organization, also committed to proclaiming, loving and serving Jesus Christ.
• ExxonMobil search: Stop ESSO Campaign and see ExxonMobil PAC info.  Overwhelming % soft money to Bush.
• Forbes  The Holy war on SUVs, search.
• Microsoft search: lobbying to oppose anti-trust efforts.  Large monopolistic corporations are conservative.  .
• TRMPAC, Texans for a Republican Majority

and we also research the 'conservative' view

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• GOP Hypocrisy
• American Center for Law and Justice Should Christians Fear Islam? "
• CBN, on Wahhabism, Breeding grounds of Terror, Part 1
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• CONSERVATIVE Think Tanks 
• Family.org website of Focus on the Family, Citizen, 
• GOP Top 10 Priority List    'Conservative definition.  and  floor calendar   
• Robert Spencer. Focus on the Family 
• NRA oppose ban on assault weapons
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• search terms:   Sun Cruz Casino, DeLay, Abramoff, Bush, Boulis

• Center for Responsive Politics track money in politics
• Fairvote Public Interest Guide to Redistricting
• FEC Watch  who gets how much from whom
• FollowtheMoney
• WhiteHouseForSale corporate inauguration of Bush, Dean and Kerry contributors list

• American Civic CoalitionA Republican-leaning group aiming to help "grassroots" activists to educate the American public ...

• Americans for a Better CountryPro-Republican group that aims to counter the efforts of Democratic-leaning groups ...

• Americans for Job SecurityA conservative, pro-business organization established to counter labor's influence ...

• Americans for Responsible Government  Republican group focusing on taxes, families and economic growth 

• Citizens United  A Republican leaning organization that wants to “restore government control to the citizens” ...

• Club for Growth  Dedicated to electing Republican fiscal conservatives ...

• Colorado Conservative Voters  A Republican-leaning group promoting Colorado candidates that support "conservative values" ...

• Grassfire.org  The media component of grassfire.net, a conservative, Pro-Bush organization ...

• Leadership Forum  Conducts issue advocacy in support of Republican House candidates ...

• League of Conservation Voters The “political voice of the national environmental movement” ...

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• Legislative Education Action Drive  Conservative group that supports private school voucher programs ...

• Main Street Individual Fund  New York-based group founded to help elect moderate Republican candidates ...

• National Committee for a Responsible Senate  Created to conduct issue advocacy in support of GOP Senate candidates ...

• People for a Better Florida  A Republican-leaning group that seeks to impact issues such as medical malpractice reform. ...

• People of Color United  A conservative organization devoted to informing people of color about the presidential contenders ...

• Progress for America  Conducting issue-advocacy efforts in support of GOP candidates ...

• Swift Boat Veterans for Truth  A conservative group of Vietnam Veterans that have questioned Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam service ...

• Jewish Bulletin Online Sharon secret plan to oust Arafat
• PeaceNow search Bush's Jewish Bloc, 
• WhiteHouseForSale corporate inauguration of Bush, Dean and Kerry contributors list

• American Enterprise Institute
• Ariel Ctr For Policy Research
• BESA
• search: Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., Rep Eric Cantor, R-Va,  Ari Fleischer. 
• Ctr For Strategic And Intl Studies
• Center For Security Policy
• Front Page Mag Dore Gold, Edwin Black, Hitchens, Natan Sharansky, David Horiwitz.
• Jerusalem Ctr For Public Affairs
• Republican Jewish Coalition Jewish community, and Republican elected officials.
• United Jewish Communities search: Ken Mehlman, RNC, 04 Bush campaign manager.  

• Justice For Us Merck Money talks
• Fairvote Public Interest Guide to Redistricting
• FEC Watch  who gets how much from whom
• FollowtheMoney
• Michael Moore movie 'Sicko'
• WhiteHouseForSale corporate inauguration of Bush, Dean and Kerry contributors list

• FEC Federal Election Commission
• FEC Search data Federal Election Commission

• Merck
• Novartis, Pharma U.S. product line, 
• NVE Pharmaceuticals Stacker, ephedra manufacturerer.
• phRMA Scientific and Regulatory Affairs news 
• Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association news, codewords
• Pfizer

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• Making permanent Bush's 2001 federal tax cuts, including the marriage penalty tax cut
• Getting votes in the first session of the 108th Congress to confirm Bush's judicial nominations.
• Help pass Senator Charles Schumer's bipartisan 'Stop Pornography and Abusive Marketing Act,' the SPAM Act, S. 1231.
• Passing Senator Lindsey Graham's and Congressman Joe Wilson's 'Holy Sites' resolution
• Passing Majority Whip Roy Blunt's and Democrat Congressman Harold Ford's 'Charitable Giving Act of 2003,' H.R. 7.
• Passing Congressman Spencer Bachus' and Senator Jon Kyl's 'Internet Gambling Enforcement Act'.
• Getting a vote on Congressman Henry Brown's 'Child Pornography Prevention Constitutional Amendment' in both the House and Senate.
• Passing Congressman Walter Jones' 'Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act.'

• Passing Congressman Robert Aderholt's 'Ten Commandments Display Act', H.R. 2045
• Passing the anti-cloning bill, including Senator Sam Brownback's bill in the U.S. Senate
• Passing Congresswoman Melissa Hart's and Senator Mike DeWine's 'Unborn Victims of Violence Act'
• Passing the 'Child Custody Protection Act in the House and Senate
• Getting a vote on Congressman Ernest Istook's 'Prayer and Pledge' Constitutional Amendment
• Support Support Congressman Frank Lucas' 'Pledge of Allegiance Constitutional Amendment'
• Support Congressman Todd Akin's 'Hands off the Pledge of Allegiance, Federal Courts' bill
• Prohibit special civil rights protection based on sexual preference/'domestic partners'.
• Supporting legislation allowing parental choice in education
  (vouchers/tax credits/scholarship tax credits, etc.)
• Supporting legislation barring adoptions of children by homosexuals
• Supporting legislation prohibiting the physical desecration of the flag of the United States of America.

• Center for Responsive Politics track money in politics
• Fairvote Public Interest Guide to Redistricting
• FEC Watch  who gets how much from whom
• FollowtheMoney

• FEC Federal Election Commission
• FEC PACRONYMS Federal Election Commission
• FEC Search data Federal Election Commission

• FEC Federal Election Commission
• FEC PACRONYMS Federal Election Commission
• FEC Search data Federal Election Commission

• Center for Responsive Politics track money in politics
• Fairvote Public Interest Guide to Redistricting
• FEC Watch  who gets how much from whom
• FollowtheMoney

• FEC Federal Election Commission
• ATF
• Counterbalance new views on complex issues
• Firearm Injury Center Medical College of Wisconsin, "better data, safer guns, fewer injuries".  

• FEC Federal Election Commission
• Keep and Bear Arms
• NRA
• NRA legislative updates, Wayne Lapierre,

• Bowling for Columbine
• Gun Law Suits from Brady Campaign
• Michael Moore
• Stop the NRA Bush campaign on extending ban, but will let extension lapse.

• FDA
• FEC Search data Federal Election Commission
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• Campaign Contributions, chart Democrats vs Republicans large file 680k, Republicans receive approx 3x Democrats contributions.
• Campaign Contributions, chart Democrats vs Republicans sorted by Dem / Rep and  original PDF from FEC

Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids  search campaign contributions.  The majority go to Republicans   sorted by Dem / Rep and  original PDF from FEC, very large file

January 1, 1999 - October 4, 2004 (partial cycle)

RECIPENT MEMBER AFFILIATION (IF APPLICABLE) AMOUNT

• BLUE DOG PAC REP. COLLIN PETERSON (D-MN) $73,000
• AMERIPAC: THE FUND FOR A GREATER AMERICA REP. STENY HOYER (D-MD) $68,500
• SEARCHLIGHT LEADERSHIP FUND SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV) $20,500
• LEADERSHIP 21 REP. JOHN TANNER (D-TN) $20,500
• LONE STAR FUND REP. MARTIN FROST (D-TX) $19,000
• GUMBO PAC REP. CHRIS JOHN (D-LA) $16,500
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• Center for Responsive Politics track money in politics
• Fairvote Public Interest Guide to Redistricting
• FEC Watch  who gets how much from whom
• FollowtheMoney

• Factor8, Kelly Duda, prison officials doctored medical records, show NOT carrying disease,  American Film Institute Festival, showing, 
• Prorev Arkansas prison system AIDS scandal cover-up, not reported in 1992 election.
• Indymedia, Omaha Bill Clinton's "Killer Prison Blood" scandal -Author James Pattison MORE below
• Salon Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, "One thousand Canadian victims demand answers from Clinton and others about the export of contaminated blood products from U.S. prisons long after they were no longer sold domestically.
• Salon, Blood Money
• TPMuckraker
• Notes: search terms, elite best kept secrets, prison-aids tie, manslaughter, prison system incubator of AIDS, blacks nine times as likely as whites to contract AIDS, not exclusive to gay white men anymore, unprotected sex behind bars, homosexual men, intravenous drug users, prison inmates,  incubator in black neighborhoods after infected prisoners return, Clinton sat on his hands despite evidence of clear mismanagement, whistle blower: Michael Galster, office fire-bombed, 

• Arkansas Democrat, newspaper, 80 articles written but ignored by national press. 
• Blood Trail, novel, Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal
• Canada 
• Canadian Red Cross, stopped collecting blood from inmates in 1971.
• Encyclopedia of Arkansas Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, Cummins Penitentiary, Dr. Edwin Brown resigned in disgust, Clinton knew, HIV,
• IMDB, Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, movie review
• Scotland, Clinton testify, hemophiliacs, infected with hepatitus, liver virus, UK, clotting agents, transfusions, 
• Wikipedia "Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal is a feature length documentary by Arkansas filmmaker and investigative journalist Kelly Duda. Through interviews and presentation of documents and footage, Duda alleges that for more than two decades, the Arkansas prison system profited from selling blood plasma from inmates infected with viral hepatitis and AIDS. The documentary contends that thousands of victims who received transfusions of a blood product derived from these plasma products, "Factor 8", died as a result.
• UK Haemophilia Society
• Washington Weekly
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• ABCNews Arkansas prison system AIDS scandal cover-up, not reported in 1992 election.
• Arkansas Penal System, Cummins Unit, Clinton governor, still operating in 1994, last state to cease selling prisoner's plasma.  genocide.
• CNN News blackout, Clinton, Arkansas, AIDS blood scandal, 1992 election.
• FBI, knew Montreal-based blood plasma middlemen shipped tainted blood,
• FDA, Arkansas plasma sent to Switzerland, Spain, Japan, Italy, Canada, hepatitus C, wrongful handling of blood supplies, contaminated blood from prison donors, warnings ignored, plasma collected at centers licensed by the FDA in prisons in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, 
• FreeRepublic  F A C T O R 8: THE ARKANSAS PRISON BLOOD SCANDAL (... or how can Hollywood support a clinton, Mr. Gere?)
• HillaryProject
• NBC News News blackout, Clinton, Arkansas, AIDS blood scandal, 1992 election.
• NoHillaryClinton "In the early 1980s, while Clinton was serving as governor of Arkansas, his administration awarded a contract to Health Management Associates .... But HMA found a willing buyer in Montreal, which brokered a deal with Connaught, a Toronto blood-fractionator, which didn’t know the source of the supplies..."  MORE
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
• Washington Post, "Answer to AIDS Mystery Found Behind Bars"
• Notes: Reagan also silent on AIDS,

• Indymedia, Omaha,  Bill Clinton's "Killer Prison Blood" scandal -Author James Pattison Date Created 22 Oct 2006 More details... Date Edited 22 Oct 2006 02:14:43 PM License This work is in the public domain BAD BLOOD Canadian media, including the Calgary Sun and Ottawa Citizen, are reporting that tainted blood from Arkansas prisons made its way to a Montreal blood broker in the 1980s when Bill Clinton was governor. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating. At the time, American sources were not accepting prisoners' blood because of possible HIV contamination. OTTAWA CITIZEN WASHINGTON POST ADMITS PRISON-AIDS TIE ...  ONE OF THE BEST kept secrets of the American elite has been that its prison policies have not been tough love but, at best, massive negligent manslaughter. Not only has the war on drugs killed more young black American men on the streets than were killed in Vietnam, but the prison system is a primary incubator for AIDS. This has been ignored and denied by the mainstream media so for the Post to headline "Answer to AIDS Mystery Found Behind Bars" is a bit of a step forward. Writes Richard Morin misleadingly, "It is one of the most puzzling mysteries of the AIDS epidemic: Why did blacks, in little more than a dozen years, become nine times as likely as whites to contract a disease once associated almost exclusively with gay white men? Two researchers say they found the answer in an unlikely place: prison." In fact, there's little puzzling about it. We have repeatedly pointed to the tie between AIDS and prisons not only because of the amount of unprotected sex behind bars but because prisons have served as an incubator in black neighborhoods after AIDS-infected prisoners are released and resume heterosexual sex. Here is just one example of the damage that has occurred, again something the archaic media largely failed to report: PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, 1999 - In the mid-1980s, as contaminated blood flowed from Arkansas inmates to other countries, then-Governor W.J. Clinton sat on his hands despite evidence of severe mismanagement in his prison system and its medical operations. . . Some of the killer blood ended up in Canada where it contributed to the deaths of an unknown number of blood and plasma recipients. An estimated 2,000 Canadian recipients of blood and related products got the AIDS virus between 1980 and 1985. At least 60,000 Canadians were infected with the hepatitis C virus between 1980 and 1990. Arkansas was one of the few sources of bad blood during this period. . . Other Arkansas plasma was sent to Switzerland, Spain, Japan, and Italy. In a case with strong echoes of the Arkansas scandal, a former premier of France and two of his cabinet colleagues are currently on trial stemming from the wrongful handling of blood supplies. Some of the blood in the French controversy may have come from Arkansas. A 1992 Newsday report on the French scandal noted that three persons had been convicted for their role in distributing blood they knew was contaminated: "Throughout the 1980s and later, blood was taken from prison donors for use in blood banks despite a series of directives warning against such a practice. According to the report, donations from prisoners accounted for 25 percent of all the contaminated blood products in France. Blood from prisons was 69 times more contaminated that that of the general population of donors." The Arkansas blood program was also grossly mishandled by the Food and Drug Administration. And the scandal provides yet another insight into how the American media misled the public about Clinton during the 1992 campaign. The media ignored a major Clinton scandal despite, for example, 80 articles about it in the Arkansas Democrat in just one four-month period of the mid-80s."
• Encyclopedia of Arkansas "In 1985, the Arkansas Board of Corrections hired the Institute for Law and Policy Planning (ILPP) in Berkeley, California, to conduct an independent investigation into HMA’s practices. At the same time, Governor Bill Clinton ordered the state police to conduct a similar investigation. The institute discovered instances in which HMA had violated its state contract in forty areas, including poor health assessment and recordkeeping and the hiring of unlicensed, uncertified, and unqualified staff. In contrast, the state police investigation found only that a few HMA employees had been running a small-time gambling operation. Clinton urged a swift end to the investigation. ADC director Art Lockhart, about whom many allegations of impropriety had been raised, was not punished; being an employee of the ADC board, he could not be fired by Clinton, and he had a protector in the powerful state Senator Knox Nelson of Pine Bluff."
• NoHillaryClinton "In the early 1980s, while Clinton was serving as governor of Arkansas, his administration awarded a contract to Health Management Associates to provide medical care to the state’s prisoners. The president of the company was a long-time friend and political ally of Clinton and was later appointed by him to the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. Later, he was among the senior members of Clinton’s 1990 gubernatorial re-election team.  ... As part of the deal HMA struck with Arkansas, in addition to treating the prisoners, the company collected their blood and sold it. Because of the exploding AIDS crisis, U.S. regulations didn’t permit the sale of prisoners’ blood within the country. But HMA found a willing buyer in Montreal, which brokered a deal with Connaught, a Toronto blood-fractionator, which didn’t know the source of the supplies..."