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Default ( OT ) Bush Campaign Ads . . . Brought to You by Special Interests

http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/con...cfm?pageid=519

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In the report, Bush Campaign Ads: Brought to You by . . .
Special Interests, Public Citizen details how much money
representatives from key industries - including finance,
real estate, communications, energy, health care, and
insurance - have helped raise and lists the tax breaks,
regulatory changes, legislative favors and plum appointments
Bush has given his backers. Many of the beneficiaries of his
policies are Rangers and Pioneers, terms Bush gives donors
who bundle contributions that total at least $200,000 and
$100,000 respectively.

Public Citizen's report finds that the 416 Bush Rangers and
Pioneers have bundled together at least $58.1 million for
the 2004 campaign and that 90 percent of them (374)
represent the special interests of America's corporations.

Public Citizen's report also details how Bush has given tax
breaks that benefit the finance industry, made it easier for
real estate developers to build on wetlands and in the
Florida Everglades, reneged on a campaign pledge to regulate
carbon dioxide emissions (pleasing the electric utility and
mining industries), increased the amount of public land
available for oil and gas exploration and coal mining,
filled top Interior Department positions with executives
from the mining industry, and aided the pharmaceutical
industry by pushing pro-industry Medicare drug legislation.

See
http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/documents/bushads2.pdf