AP: Kerry Took Money From Arrested Figure

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - John Kerry's campaign collected a maximum $2,000 check from the recently arrested son of South Korea's disgraced former president, and some of its fund-raisers met several times with a South Korean government official who was trying to organize a Korean-American political group.

The Kerry campaign said it did not know about the $2,000 donation from Chun Jae-yong or his background until informed by The Associated Press and has decided to return the money to avoid any appearance of impropriety.

"We are sending the check back," spokesman Michael Meehan said.

South Korean government officials told the AP that a top official in its Los Angeles consulate office returned home last month amid "speculation" he had engaged in Democratic politics, but they do not believe any laws were broken.


http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040620/D83AV36G0.html

[mhr]

1. No News Move Along

eom

[Sparkly]

2. I posted it in the Campaign forum

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x553546

I can't get over both the "scandal" and the way they've titled it.

[PicturePicture]

3. hi.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. Poorly worded title, isn't it?

[Oddman]

5. Looks like the Green Party wants us to support bush and Nader

That'll do a lot of good for America . .


“Cripes . . .I can’t even spell Preserdent . . .
but I LOVE the Green Party!"

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Yeah, and he loves the Socialist party for the same reason that Dems

love the Libertarians.

Does our election system suck or what?

[LTR]

7. No worries

Bush took more than that from even more questionable people.

[bluestateguy]

8. There is a war going on...

This is so 90's. Why don't we throw in a Buddhist Temple and a Macarena just to make it feel like 1996 again.

[markses]

9. Bush ran his 2000 campaign on Enron's Private Jet

Do they really want to get into this type of shit?

[terrya]

10. Not to mention letting polluters write your administration environmental..

policies. Or letting the oil industry write your energy policy.

This story about Kerry is so inconsequential, so fucking trivial, compared to the evil shit that we already know about Bush and campaign contributions and their effect on Adminstration policy.

[FlaGranny]

11. News Flash!!!

Bush is running his government with felons from the Reagan administration.

[Sparkly]

13. Republican Motto

"WE don't take money from Arrested Figures. We ARE Arrested Figures."

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. or. ..."We ought to be arrested, but it'll never happen!"

Bwahahahahah! :evilgrin:

/end impression of evil Republican gov't official.

[acmavm]

16. Yes! You have hit the nail right smack on it's little head. Half the

people in this administration should be in prison right now, and the other half may be on their way. This administration makes the Reagans look decent. And Cheney has it way over on Spiro Agnew. And remember Admiral Poindexter, he of Iran/Contra? His little stock market gambling game on terror attacks, etc.? Well, just because it didn't become official government policy doesn't mean it went away, it was simply privatized. The guy who told Chalabi about breaking the Iranian's codes? The traitor (and I don't use the word lightly here) that outed Valerie Plame? Richard Perle on the board of every corrupt business in the world, but I'll just name Holland Corp. here (Lord Black). Cheney and the French investigation over bribery charges in Nigeria. All members of the bush* administration, past and present.

And the repukes are kicking up a fuss over a $2000 donation. That's really bizarre.

[aquart]

21. That's really desperate.

But hardly as sleazy as they can go.

[emulatorloo]

12. Cannes: Kerry's Daughter Has Arresting Figure

EOM

[Sparkly]

14. Good one! And the total national debt right now

is an arresting figure, too.

[emulatorloo]

18. An even better one! Too bad AP can't write up that one.

:toast:

These AP stories today are MIND_NUMBINGLY trivial

[bluestateguy]

17. Oh well

Better from South Korea than North Korea, China or corrupt Indonesia. The contribution was legal, was returned and as long there are no more incidents like this I expect this story to have a shelf life of about 24 hours.

[59millionmorons]

19. And Bush took money from Ken Lay and Halliburton

End of story.

[bluedog]

20. Liberal Media My A$$!!

Even with all controls in place, there is no way to prevent such a contribution from getting through. This article does not give a thread of evidence of deliberate wrong doing by a single member ... junior or senior ... in the Kerry staff.

There IS strong evidence that SENIOR members of Cheney's staff were involved in giving the no-bid contract to Halliburton.

There IS strong evidence that SENIOR members of Bush's staff were involved in disclosing the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

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[seabeyond]

23. here we go.......go after dems for every itsy bitsy thing can find

and bush flat out break the law as sittin pres and ignore. repugs already doing what they did to clinton and gore before they were even elected

let me just say again, pigs

i am just simply and soulfully disgusted

[NashVegas]

24. Oh WOW! He's Just as Bad as Shrub Taking $250k from Ken Lay & Friends

Oh, the horror of it!

[demgrrrll]

25. The AP must be scrambling to keep up with these blast faxes from the

WH. Damn.

[ParanoidPat]

26. To be HONEST shouldn't that be "Kerry donor recently arrested".....

.....???? :shrug: So will the AP HYPE the arrest of "Kenny Boy" as "Bush energy policy adviser and campaign maximum donor arrested" when he's formally charged? :evilgrin:

Does the AP really think that we're all that stupid? :(
I've got some news for them! :)