Triple_a made a post today on KvM talking about the irresponsible "blogger" campaign finance legislation (which, ironically, has very little to do with actual bloggers). One of the opponents to this legislation, the Hon. Marty Meehan D-Mass, made an excellent point about this legislation opening up a huge loophole that would allow corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on internet advertising in exchange for Congressmen like Kennedy supporting friendly legislation. Kennedy v. Machine thinks this is a good thing; go figure. Anyway, Triple_a then went to show Rep. Meehan's campaign finance records for 2004 (below), implying that Meehan only listens to political action committees. Triple_a said, "Maybe it’s time to start a Blog PAC…"

Maybe it's time to understand what that information means when you cut and pasted it without actually reading it. By my count, in 2004, Meehan took $7,010 from PACs. Screech Kennedy, on the other hand, took $1,186,150 from PACs in the same year. Almost all of Meehan's money came from individuals, nearly half of Screech's money came from special interest political action committees.

Behold, the truth:

This is the PAC/Individual breakdown for Kennedy:

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This is the PAC/Individual breakdown for Meehan:


Source: Opensecrets.org [Meehan] [Kennedy]