POTUS Endorses Jerry
You knew it would emerge.
You don't hold a fundraiser with the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (POTUS) and not let the average Joe have a peek.
So Jerry Kilgore has made public a few seconds of video from his $2.1 million fundraiser with President Bush. The cash is good, but the video is gold.
See it here.
It's unclear whether that video will ever make it to the airwaves in full-fledged campaign ads. Bush has been very reticent to appear too political. (He lets his lieutenants, including Karl Rove, perform that function for him). And it was the Bush White House that refused to let the Kilgore campaign open the fundraiser to the press.
But the Kilgore campaign will make the best use of it that they can. In an e-mail to supporters, the campaign highlights the Bush event and directs folks to the Web site link above.
Kilgore's chief rival, Tim Kaine, got a bit of help from a national figure of sorts last week. Sen. John Kerry, the losing candidate in 2004, sent an e-mail to supporters urging them to vote for Kaine.
By Michael Shear |
July 26, 2005; 6:44 PM ET
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Posted by: crooks and liars | July 27, 2005 06:12 PM
I think it is also worth noting that Tim Kaine was fortunate to secure Sen. Barack Obama as a guest at a local fundraiser in Clarendon, which coincidentally, took place the day before the POTUS backed Kilgore. Granted, I don't know results in $$, but turnout reached capacity and then some.
Posted by: amg | August 1, 2005 04:11 PM
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I wonder how quickly the Bush endorsement video will be pulled from the Kilgore website once the Fitzgerald report comes out in October.