Thank you for your recent media appearances- both your Real Security remarks & your session with Neil Cavuto were outstanding. In particular your Real Security remarks really evoked the Dem National Convention speech- a high water mark for Dems forever, as far as I'm concerned.

Keep hanging out with Dick Durbin.... I like!

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train is pulling out of the station...

Transaction ID: 19740091
Date: September 6, 2006
Amount: $xx.00

Transaction ID: 19740621
Date: September 6, 2006
Time: 2:20pm (ET)
Payment Amount: $xx.00
Campaign: Contribute | WesPAC
Name: Reg NYC

Done. General Wes Clark's
"Take the Hill" Campaign

Transaction ID: 19740067
Date: September 6, 2006
Amount: $xx.08

From: Clearsky (screen name)

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We're so proud to have you as our leader --- going all over the country with our Dem Candidates.

As you know, it not only gives them self-confidence and guidance, but surely there's no one who could, by standing there with a candidate, give the voters more confidence that that candidate will be capably representing them in national security matters.

thank you, General Wes
and our best and our thanks to your growing family for what they are doing for our country.

We know what it must mean for them to have you gone "at work" so much.

Clearsky

can be included!!

Cripes, shoulda waited a day!! I emailed the contribution receipt as a reply to the email we received today.

Thank you General Clark for giving us hope!!

Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right. - Hunter/Garcia

should be good.

Glad to have been a small part of it.

Blue State of Mind

Lead on. We're with you all the way.

Transaction ID:
19744719

Date:
September 6, 2006

Amount:
$25.08

Thanks for all that you do. Happy Birthday to me!

Transaction ID: 19744935
Date: September 6, 2006
Amount: $xx.00

Let's reach this goal tonight! General Clark, this is one way we can show our thanks for all you do.

Debby

Jim Webb really needs help getting the money to compete with Allen. Anybody know anybody at the DSCC or DNC? The first DSCC ad for Claire McCaskill is set to air with just 2 months to go. They pledged $6 million to help her, but sure doesn't look like they will spend that much in MO at this late date. If they aren't spending the money all on Claire, I sure hope they are spending it on Webb.

And a great cause! Thanks General Clark for continuing to fight for our country.

Transaction ID: 19745774
Date: September 6, 2006
Time: 6:59pm (ET)
Payment Amount: $xxx.xx
Campaign: Contribute | WesPAC
Name: Nelsons

Thanks for all you do.
Transaction # 19745978

Threw a little in the pot.

Random thought:

I'd like to see the candidates featuring you in some of their ads, General Wes. TV and/or radio. To have you say some of what you said here and at the event yesterday would be very powerful and could reach more people with the message too.

Here's hoping.....

Charge!!

Thank you for your contribution, ms in la

Transaction ID: 19746962
Date: September 6, 2006
Amount: $XXX.00

Transaction ID: 19747198
Date: September 6, 2006
Amount: $xx.00

This is not a time for a candidate who will offend no one; it is time for a candidate who takes clear stands and kicks ass.....Molly Ivins

Transaction ID: 19747050
Date: September 6, 2006
Time: 8:51pm (ET)
Payment Amount: $NNN.00
Campaign: Contribute | WesPAC
Name: Stan Davis

Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
BE THE CHANGE you wish to see in the world.
If not us, WHO? If not now, WHEN?

I haven't been doing my part. I tried to make up for it today. I am so proud of you General Clark.

Yes Sir, General, I'm in.

Transaction ID: 19747662
Date: September 6, 2006
Amount: $XX.08

...fascist is, as fascist does, mr. preznit

What a grand thing you're doing!

Transaction ID: 19740693
Date: September 6, 2006
Time: 3:27pm (ET)

carol4clark

General Wes Clark * * * * 4 Stars Over Texas

...I didn't promise myself I'd contribute to WesPAC everytime that a Cavuto, Hannity or O'Reilly had their ass handed to them by the General or I'd be broke.

However, here's another $44.08 on top on my normal monthly contrib. Bob Dole envious of the upward trajectory being exhibited by this fund raising effort.

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Transaction ID: 19748294
Date: September 6, 2006
Amount: $44.08

contribute anything now. Hopefully soon I can.

Thanks so much for continuing to fight the good fight and inspiring us all to do our part as well.

As Robbie would say if he were here with us; "Danger Wes Clark, DANGER!!"

Dear Wes ... and all concerned; I just received this today and AM so alarmed I felt I needed to get it to you ASAP. Bush is trying to get the current Canadian government to give $450,000,000 (yes, you heard me, 450 million) USD to the Whitehouse to be used in any fashion it sees fit; including funding Republican candidates!

Please bare with me as I try to give you a little background.

As some (hopefully all) of you may be aware, there has been a long running battle between the US and Canada regarding a trade dispute over Softwood Lumber. The Canadian position is that, as part of the NAFTA agreement, the US should not be charging duties on Canadian lumber. However, in response to a group of VERY powerful Lumber baron they have been applying punishing duties for several years.

On behalf of the Canadian lumber industry, the federal government of Canada has taken the US Commerce Department to court several times and won in every instance. But the new, "Bush-like", "We-Like-Bush" conservative government in Canada is now promoting a compromise which will in effect, fund Republican efforts to retain power.

PLEASE read ALL of the following article!!.

Bush 'Slush Fund,' Courtesy of Canada
Softwood deal pours $450 million straight into White House, says U.S. lawyer.View full article and comments here http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/08/29/SlushFund/
By Elliot Feldman
Published: August 29, 2006
TheTyee.ca[Editor's note: On August 21 in Ottawa, the Standing Committee on International Trade heard a U.S. trade lawyer damn the proposed softwood lumber agreement as a terrible deal for Canadians. Elliot J. Feldman of Baker & Hostetler LLP argued that Canada caved at a moment of strength, given that international rulings continued to land firmly on our side. Instead, Feldman argued, this deal will kill the NAFTA process which has favoured Canada's position, and forfeit at least a billion dollars plus hundreds of millions of dollars more in interest that would have come our way had our negotiators hung tough.

Feldman, who is based in Washington, D.C., offered one more bit of startling analysis, excerpted below. The deal, he said, will funnel nearly half a billion dollars directly to George Bush's White House, creating a political "slush fund" available to the Republicans and the U.S. timber industry for waging future campaigns.]

Honorable members, responsibility for this deal ultimately resides with the government and with you, not the industry. It has been forced on the industry for political reasons. No one in the industry likes it, but many believe they have no choice and, therefore, many have already accepted it.

I want to talk for a few minutes about the genesis of this agreement and one of its most important and least discussed elements. There is a bit of Watergate in this story and, as in Watergate, it is essential to follow the money. Back before Christmas, David Emerson, then minister in a Liberal government, and his ambassador in Washington, Frank McKenna, were asking what it would cost to buy peace in softwood lumber. They were adhering to all of the usual Canadian negotiating positions on this subject: protecting Chapter 19 in NAFTA, fending off onerous anti-circumvention clauses, protecting Canadian prerogatives. But, unlike any previous dispute, this one involved the accumulation of over 4 billion, now 5 billion, dollars. And there was the Byrd Amendment, which led the U.S. industry to believe that if it could just stall long enough to wear down the Canadians, while claiming title to all of the money, they could settle for a lot of it. They knew the Canadians had brought a case in U.S. courts that could prohibit them from claiming any of the money pursuant to the Byrd Amendment. They demanded a 60/40 split back at Christmas.

Messieurs Emerson and McKenna negotiated to 50/50 and then asked industry. Industry calculated net present value against litigation prospects, and said "no." But, in the process, Messieurs McKenna and Emerson asked what would be enough. At that time, under those circumstances, they were told 70 per cent. Think, then of how impressed Mr. Emerson was with himself when in April, he could tell industry that he got 80 per cent. But, there were at least four huge problems, and he had neglected all of them.

'Legally entitled to not a penny'

First, on April 7, the United States Court of International Trade ruled that the U.S. industry was entitled legally to no money. None of it. It was not surprising then, that 20 days later, the U.S. coalition said that it would take $500 million. It was hardly a negotiating triumph to persuade them to take $500 million, when they had become legally entitled to not a penny.

Second, net present value at the end of April was not the same as it was at Christmas, especially as the pot kept growing. Canadian industry had in mind a fixed sum for the coalition, maybe as much as $150 million, not half a billion. Third, it was not quite as obvious in the two and a half page term sheet of April 27, that Canada would give away everything that the previous government had been defending in order to complete a deal, because political priorities had changed so radically. And fourth, the term sheet promised a major joint initiative to improve North American competitiveness. The "remainder" -- that was the word the terms said -- would go to so-called "meritorious initiatives" in the United States.

Industry was troubled by this last development. It wondered why it was providing foreign aid to the United States, but it was also reassured that the sum would be small. More impressively, Minister Emerson told CEOs that, as long as they were getting back 80 per cent of their money, it was none of their business what would happen to the rest. He was, by all accounts, very blunt on this subject. And, meanwhile, we were advised by negotiators that the White House had taken a direct and active interest in this money, but that Canadian industry ought to focus on other things. As the minister had said, it was not really their concern. The "remainder," then, became $450 out of $500 million dollars.

'Gift of $450 million to the president'

That, honorable members, is a colossal sum of money. It certainly got the U.S. government, as well as the coalition getting the other $500 million, committed to the deal. It is astonishing how little, nothing really, the Canadian Government got in exchange for it. And let's understand this money -- the $500 million -- not the coalition's money, about which you heard some on July 31, but the rest.

Some perspective. At the height of the Watergate scandal, focus was on an illegal slush fund available to the Committee to Re-Elect the President, that was thought to be tipping the balance of American politics. The fund never exceeded $20 million. One of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was that he received foreign campaign donations, perhaps as much as $50,000. Both by statute and by the United States Constitution, gifts of money to the United States must go to the treasury and be appropriated by Congress. The lone, aberrant and still controversial exception has been money donated in the immediate aftermath of the emergency created by Hurricane Katrina, and the sums involved were very small.

So, here we have the government of Canada requiring that Canadian private parties sign over $450 million to an escrow fund slated to be conveyed to the White House. The agreement does not mention Congress, and the Bush administration says that Congress will not be involved in any way with this agreement. The government of Canada thus is making a gift of $450 million to be spent by the president. That was more than a belt buckle, even more than a stetson, on July 6th. There is only one date certain in the deal: that the planned expenditure of the $450 million must be determined by September 1.

Political blowback?

Curious, that date, which traditionally is the kick-off for campaigns in the United States in election years. Yes, it's an election year, and the Republican control of Congress is considered in trouble. The entire Republican campaign war chest is less than $300 million. Canada will add to it by 150 per cent in funds to be expended for "meritorious initiatives." It does not require much imagination to foresee the strategic places where this money will be spent.

This peace on softwood lumber will probably not improve Canada's relations with the United States, because this colossal sum of money is going to the White House, not the U.S. Treasury. When the Democratic party learns of it and understands it, it's not likely to be pleased, and it's possible that, despite the infusion of such money, the Democrats nevertheless will win in November. Canada may then have much improved relations with the Republican party but not with the United States.

During questions following Feldman's presentation, NDP MP Peter Julian (New Westminster/Burnaby) noted the "quite a staggering revelation that the funding of $450 million would be, if I understand it, under the control of the White House; Congress would have no say and Canada would have no say as to the use of that money. And, hence, in a mid-term election year we would be giving $450 million to a massive political fund." Feldman responded:

This is in my view an historic, unprecedented, astounding intrusion into American politics. We searched all the way back to the Revolution and found nothing like it in American history. And the question that I came this morning to put is, "Will the Parliament of Canada accept responsibility for possibly tipping the balance in American politics in preserving the control of Congress by the president's party?" This softwood lumber agreement is an historic moment in part because of that proposition, and it's up to this Parliament to decide whether it will accept the responsibility. That responsibility cannot be shifted and, indeed, that money inevitably will go to shore up the electoral aspirations of the Republican party through the president -- it's not going to be touched by Congress -- it's going through an escrow fund. And these are questions that could impact American politics for generations and impact relations between Canada and the United States for generations to come. And that is entirely in the hands of this Parliament.

Mr. Julian: So what you're saying is that we are not only providing money to the coalition to fight further legal victories, for further legal battles -- giving half a billion dollars to them -- but we're also providing money that may go to political purposes for the re-election of Republicans, many of whom have been the most adamant against allowing free trade in lumber. It is ridiculous.

Mr. Feldman: The provision in Article 13.A.2 of the agreement, which recites the meritorious initiatives, is language which could be defined only as a slush fund for the president.

Elliot J. Feldman is a partner of the law firm Baker Hostetler and represents clients in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia. He is the former director of the University Consortium for Research on North America at Harvard University and is a director of the Canadian-American Business Council.

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Glad to help, General Clark!!
Transaction ID: 19754644
Date: September 7, 2006
Time: 10:29am (ET)
Payment Amount: $xx.00
Name: summercat
The General gets it right.
Competence--What a concept!

Transaction ID: 19756943
Date: September 7, 2006
Payment Amount: $XX.00

Thank you General for all you are doing to get Democrats elected and to take back the Hill (and the Senate)!!

despite the fact wes is obviously a dynamo-unto-himself, im wondering if it will ever be disclosed here, which dems in-particular the general is stragtegizing with, toward what long term goals, and where he will be postured within the grand scheme of things. we can assume these issues have been discussed at some length behind closed doors. the company we keep is the policy we reap. im just wondering, because it seems to me the dc dems have created a party of entrenched losers often posturing their own interests, and therefore we are looking at a strategy that will ensure dem success in elections through maintaining the most right-wing-posible position. biz as usual, is it wes? thats all im wondering...whatz coming? nothing but the same team in different colored jerseys? strategically speaking, there needs to be high ground first, before any hills can be taken.

Transaction ID: 19758581
Date: September 7, 2006
Time: 4:20pm (ET)

"decent wages, education and health care for every American is "not just an opportunity, but a right."--Wes Clark

By golly!

...at this rate maybe we can bring the hill to you, General Clark.

:)

...fascist is, as fascist does, mr. preznit

Clarkies....a bunch of over-achievers if ever I saw 'em! LOL!! Way to go!

"Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words."

this gal from SC appreciates all you do -- so i tossed some funds your way! (we gotta fight the Mitt Romney PAC -- he raised over $200,000 when he came here to SC)

Since SC is now part of the early primary schedule (right after NH and Iowa caucus), how about coming down and help out our Dem house candidates...especially the "Fighting Dem" in the third district.. (it would be good exposure for that presidential run in 2008!!!)??
i know, i'm dreaming, you're a busy man.

just keep it up. America needs to see what a man with integrity looks and sounds like!

I would like to contribute to "take the hill with me" ....but am home this week on old computer that is not secure enough for posting credit card info. Is there a telephone number I can call tomorrow and give the information and contribution over the phone? Impeach Cheney First!

tomorrow at a fundraiser that costs $1,000 to get in and is being held at a mansion in a neighborhood where people probably like their tax breaks. The DSCC has finally started running some ads here and McCaskill is running hers. Claire needs to work the hardest to get the vote in the rural areas and southern MO. She should do well in the cities. Missouri will be a nail biter.

...to all of you and those in the Yahoo! groups for stomping all over the goal. On the assumption that the fundraiser continues 'til midnight Friday, we're gonna double the goal.

Hillary, Mark, John -- take notice. This little exercise was only 2 1/2 days long. Think what a year-long (before the shooting starts) campaign will do.

I've never quite believed that money donated in one place necessarily meant money not donated in another place. There is money out there if people have a good reason to part with it. Think 9/11. Think Katrina. Think "Taking the Hill." Think...well...you know.

Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
BE THE CHANGE you wish to see in the world.
If not us, WHO? If not now, WHEN?

Sir, thank you for all that you do to protect us all. Thank you for being honest. Thank you for your experience, your intelligence, and your dedication. General Clark, you will always be a hero with your words and your deeds.

$100 donation 9/8 Transaction No. 19769107

J. Davies

"If you can do good, you should," Wes Clark

It's a pleasure to help you to do the wonderful work of helping the candidates. I feel certain that you will have a very positive effect on the coming election for all of them.

Transaction ID: 19770459
Date: 9/08/06
Amount: $XX.OO

StvyY19

Transaction ID: 19774160

Ollie

the big $FIVE-OH! by midnight!

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

                         -- Albert Schweitzer

Transaction ID: 19774232
Date: September 8, 2006
Time: 6:43pm (ET)
Payment Amount: $xxx.xx
Campaign: Contribute | WesPAC
Name: msbehavinforclark :)

done -

Rose DeWitt Bukster: So this is the ship they say is unsinkable. Cal Hockley: It is unsinkable. God himself couldn't sink this ship. - Titanic ( Action Hero's Handbook )

Transaction ID: 19775773
Time 10:48PM
$XXX.00

I suddenly pictured the General going to Connecticut and telling Leiberman, ONE MORE TIME, that going to Iraq has made us LESS SAFE!

Thank you, General!

Well, I don't know if it was I or not, but I kicked in some more at 11:50 p.m. Mountain Time, and Kat said it counted.

No matter. It took each and every donation to get there.

Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
BE THE CHANGE you wish to see in the world.
If not us, WHO? If not now, WHEN?

Thanks to everyone who contributed!