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:Americans Tired of Lawsuit Abuse WA PAC, with an Alexandria, Virginia, address, also links with VOTINGFORJUDGES.ORG. It shows a single contribution of $355,000.00 from Americans Tired of Lawsuit Abuse, also located in Alexandria, Virginia [http://www.vpap.org/donors/pac_soo.cfm?ComID=05-100&FmKey=ORP000240881]. "Advocacy" expendures total $320,000.00: $80,000.00 to support John Groen and $240,000.00 to support Stephen Johnson in Washington. [http://www.votingforjudges.org/finance/tired.html]
Other ads attacking Washington state "Supreme Court Justice Tom Chambers and backing challenger Jeanette Burrage" were "placed by a committee named [[Citizens for Judicial Integrity]]," Connelly wrote. "Public Disclosure Commission records reveal that the 'citizens" group has a single contributor: It " On August 25, 2006, it received $72,000 on Aug. 25 from a political committee called [[Constitution First]]PAC," which "also has a limited list of contributors. It received " Richard Roesler, staff writer for the ''Spokesman Review'', [http://www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/olympia/archive.asp?postID=3945 wrote] August 31, 2006, in the ''Eye on Olympia'' Blog that CIJ, which had then been "formed just a week ago", was bankrolling the ads with $72,000 it had raised "in just a few days", with all the money coming "from yet another week-old [[political action committee]]: the Constitution First PAC", in turn supported by "just three donors: $50,000 from Sabre Venture , Inc. of Poulsbo and $2512,000 500 each from J.R. Sherrard and Alyce A.L. Sherrard , also both of SilverdalePoulsbo. (The Sherrards also donated the maximum $1,400 each to Burrage's regular campaign fund.)"
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