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Dude, where's my endorsement?
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Hollywood heartthrob Ashton Kutcher -- star of "Dude, Where's my Car" and its upcoming sequel "Seriously Dude, Where's My Car?" -- is endorsing Sen. John Edwards for president, according to the North Carolina Democrat's campaign. Kutcher is scheduled to attend an October 29 fund raiser for Edwards at the Hollywood home of Victoria and Dennis Hopper, along with former "West Wing" television producer and writer Aaron Sorkin. Jennifer Palmieri, spokeswoman for the Edwards campaign, said the event will be Edwards' "best Hollywood fund raiser so far." The Edwards campaign could use the money. Edwards raised just $2 million in the third quarter, beating only Dennis Kucinich, Al Sharpton, and Carol Moseley Braun. Palmieri said Kutcher, who was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is expected to join Edwards on the campaign trail in Iowa soon. The campaign is thinking about calling the Kutcher tour "Dude, Where's my Job," to highlight job losses under President Bush. Words that echoDemocrats are not about to let go of the furor over the leak of a CIA operative's name. That leak, allegedly by two senior administration officials, is now the subject of an FBI investigation. The Democratic National Committee recently sent an e-mail to 1.4 million activists attempting to raise money for a new TV ad that would criticize Bush about that leak. The planned TV ad, which has yet to air, would include footage of the first President's Bush's harsh comments about people who leak sensitive government information. Speaking at a 1999 dedication ceremony for the George Bush Center for Intelligence, the first President Bush expressed his "contempt and anger" for those who reveal CIA secrets. "They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors," Bush said. The ad, according to a script, goes on to call for an "independent investigation" into the leak. Democrats say Attorney General John Ashcroft has too many political ties to the White House to conduct a fair-minded probe, a charge rejected by the administration. Ties that bind?In the end, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison found she couldn't oppose a fellow Republican from Texas -- in this case, the president of the United States. During the debate on funds for Iraq, Hutchison was one of several GOP senators who argued that at least some of that money should be in the form of loans, not grants. But Hutchison was lobbied heavily by the White House to abandon that position, and she had a change of heart before she cast her vote. "I still believe the appropriations legislation should include a loan component, but the president believes he needs the authority to administer reconstruction funds as grants," Hutchison said in a written statement. "Now more than ever his efforts to stabilize Iraq, the primary battlefield in the war on terrorism, and bring in other countries are critical and I will not undermine them." Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania, had also voiced support for the loan provision, but he said he was convinced by Bush's argument and voted against the measure. -- CNN Congressional Producer Steve Turnham contributed to this report.
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