Well folks it looks like not all of John Kerry's campaign workers are still waiting for their checks.
[i]WASHINGTON - All of John Kerry one-time rivals in the Democratic presidential primary eventually lined up to support him as the nominee, but only one got paid for it — Al Sharpton.
The Democratic National Committee paid Sharpton $86,715 in travel and consulting fees to compensate for his campaigning for Kerry and other Democratic candidates, according to reports to the Federal Election Commission.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Sharpton said he was paid for travel and he didn't know how much he had been reimbursed.
"They asked me to travel to 20 or 30 cities to campaign, and I did that," Sharpton said. "What am I supposed to do, donate the cost of air fare?"
But records show that while most of the money was to reimburse travel expenses, Sharpton was paid $35,000 as a "political consulting fee" 15 days after the election. The consulting fee was first reported in this week's edition of the Village Voice.
Democratic National Committee spokesman Jano Cabrera said the party paid Sharpton at the request of the Kerry campaign. [/i]
So it looks like Al got his check cut. Sadly I suppose the rest of the people that worked on Kerry's campaign simply don't rate that type of treatment. Anyone willing to bet that if the rest of Kerry's campaign workers had the ear of the national press and could play the race card at will they would have gotten paid too?
