Al Gore will donate more than $6 million to Democratic Party groups from his 2000 campaign funds.
According to the Associated Press:
The former vice president pledged to donate $4 million to the Democratic National Committee (news - web sites). The party's Senate and House committees would each get $1 million, and the party from Gore's home state of Tennessee would receive $250,000.
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Most of the money comes from Gore's general election legal and accounting compliance fund, which showed $6.6 million on March 31. The $240,000 going to the Florida Democratic Party comes from an account established to help pay for the 2000 recount drive.
Under FEC rules, Gore could not transfer or donate the money directly to the Kerry campaign.
UPDATE: Steven Taylor, at Poliblog asks how Gore managed to have $6 million left.
And why should it be legal to give the money to the DNC? Sounds like a very large loophole to me, but does it boarder on fraud?
The money was given originally for his 2000 campaign, and donors at that time were operating under that assumption. Now 4 years later they realize money given in good faith then, is given to various places that wasn't included in the original "contract," and may very well not support now, or then. Smells like fraud to me, money obtained under false pretenses.
And what's up with that paltry sum of a quarter mil to Tennessee, that gives new meaning to why he couldn't win his own State in the election. But we all know Florida, and not Tennessee cost internet boy the White House (hint hint, wink, wink) in 2000.
Posted by: Cranial | Wednesday, April 28, 2004 at 06:34 PM