Effort to Spend Millions on Bush Reelection
One of President Bush’s lawyers during the 2000 Florida recount is creating a group to spend millions advocating Bush’s reelection, hoping to counter efforts by billionaire George Soros and others to help Democrats capture the White House.
Attorney George Terwilliger and Republican political consultants Frank Donatelli and Craig Shirley are asking the Federal Election Commission for advice on whether their plan is legal under the new campaign finance law, a copy of the letter says.
The law bars the use of so-called soft money -- corporate, union and unlimited contributions -- in connection with federal elections.
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