A Run for the Money

Democratic presidential contender John Kerry is loaded. Congress' richest member, he reported assets worth up to $688 million (gained, in part, from his wife's inheritance of the H.J. Heinz ketchup fortune), according to The Center for Public Integrity's "Buying the President" database of candidate wealth. But he's not alone: of the eight men who've already declared their interest in running for president, seven are multimillionaires. With biographies of the declared candidates and a searchable database of nearly 200 financial documents, the site will be an invaluable tool in deciding who we the (poor) people want to be our next president.