"dxAce" wrote in message
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What's even more pathetic is they're going to run him again in '08.

Cool... it was fun once, it'll be fun again!

Maybe this time we'll find out if he was actually dishonourably discharged
at
one time. That'd be a real hoot.

Let the fun begin!

WASHINGTON - Sen. John F. Kerry tapped campaign funds for Red Sox tickets
and to pay nearly $300 in overdue Boston parking tickets in March, records
show.

Kerry's Senate campaign committee wrote a $287 check to the City of
Boston Parking Clerk on March 31, 2005. The Bay State senator listed
``travel expense'' as the purpose for the expenditure.

Kerry leased a car for campaign-related travel in Massachusetts that
was cited for about a half-dozen parking tickets in Boston.

Most of the tickets were issued in October and November 2003 and not
paid until more than 15 months later in March 2005 after accruing penalty
fees.

``They were leftover tickets we only found out about when we closed out
the lease,'' Kerry spokeswoman Jenny Backus said. ``The car was used for the
Senate campaign by staffers and volunteers.''

Kerry, meanwhile, used presidential campaign funds for a $3,150 tab for
Boston Red Sox tickets in July when he threw out the first pitch at Fenway
Park before the Democratic National Convention.

A Federal Election Commission spokesman said congressmen are entitled
to pay for parking tickets and other expenses from their campaign funds as
long as they were ``campaign-related.''

Other members of the Bay State congressional delegation also reported
some novel spending this year.

U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-South Boston) spent $1,231 on makeup
services during a two-week stretch in March, according to his most recent
FEC report.

``Congresssman Lynch had a pretty intensive round of TV interviews due
to the baseball steroid hearings, the Big Dig hearings and his Iraq trip,''
Lynch spokesman Matt Ferraguto said.