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Bush-Cheney re-elect (The Note, 7//11/03, ABC News)

Nicolle Devenish, the spokesperson of the Bush-Cheney campaign, tells The Note that on Tuesday the 15th, Bush-Cheney will put up two categories of data on its web site: all the FEC-required stuff, plus more more more.

The campaign plans to post just under 20,000 donors who gave $200 or more, with close to 80% of those donors having complete information (occupation/address/etc.) listed, and the campaign is working all weekend trying to get higher compliance, which is admirable on at least two levels.

In addition, the campaign will put up all the donors who gave less than $200, and there will be about 80,000 of those (and, remember, that listing those donors is NOT required by the FEC), and the campaign will get to about 80% of those listed in that category with full information, which is extraordinary.

There will be no listing for Rangers and Pioneers yet, although some donors have amazingly hit Pioneer status already.

As Byron York pointed out earlier in the week, President Bush is running the exact kind of campaign that reformers claim to want. Oddly, they seem reluctant to give credit where due... Posted by Orrin Judd at July 11, 2003 12:31 PM