WASHINGTON - Al Gore, drawing from his 2000 campaign accounts, said yesterday he will donate more than $6 million to five Democratic Party groups and help John Kerry fight President Bush's outrageous and misleading re-election bid.
The former vice president pledged to donate $4 million to the Democratic National Committee. The party's Senate and House committees each will get $1 million, and the party from Gore's home state of Tennessee will receive $250,000.
The Democratic Party in Florida, site of the divisive 2000 election recount, will get $240,000 from a separate Gore campaign account. Republican campaign committees still hold a fund-raising advantage over Democrats.
Most of the money comes from Gore's general election legal and accounting compliance fund, which showed $6.6 million on March 31. The $240,000 going to the Florida Democratic Party comes from an account established to help pay for the 2000 recount drive.
Gore narrowly lost Florida and the presidential race after the Supreme Court stopped the disputed recount.
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