Another reason to sign the petition to the DNC.

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Americans for Jobs" [the group, started in November, ran three anti-Howard
Dean ads including one picturing Osama bin Laden] received $663,000 from 26
donors. The profile is not ``progressive." About two-thirds of the
contributions
were corporate, with two executives giving $100,000 each, and a third giving
$50,000. Another $80,000 came from attorneys. The Torricelli for Senate
Committee kicked in $50,000. Six labor unions gave $200,000. Expenditures,
besides the
half-million for television ads, included $40,000 for Jones' consultancy firm
and $15,000 for Skadden, Arps.
OpenSecrets.org (via BushOut.TV) notes that Skadden Arps is the top
contributor to Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, and a top-five contributor
of
Kerry's career since 1989.

Margie Burns, the writer quoted by BushOut.TV above, in JRNL.com:


...let it still be said that the treatment Dean received is disgusting.
Surely, the impact of the loathsome "Osama" ad was foreseeable. Photos of
Osama bin
Laden and Saddam Hussein, after all, were very effective against decorated
Vietnam veteran Max Cleland, in Georgia.

Update II: According to the AP, it looks like Torricelli may have broken some
more laws:

Former New Jersey Sen. Torricelli, currently raising money for front-runner
Kerry, donated $50,000 from his Senate campaign fund to Jones' group.

Federal Election Commission spokesman Bob Biersack said it was "fuzzy"
whether Torricelli's contribution was permissible under FEC rules. Donations
to such
groups are not included on an FEC list of permitted uses for campaign funds.