Posted on 08/21/2004 7:39:27 PM PDT by LowNslow
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=741
J.H.: I’m a political activist, but on a very limited basis. I’ve had two politicians that I’m very fond of. One was Father Robert Drinan, who was a congressman from Massachusetts for ten years and whose campaign I got involved in. [Drinan retired from Congress in 1980 when the Catholic Church prohibited priests from holding public office]. And the second is John Kerry. I view them both as the non-typical politicians they are. I admire them for their character, their integrity, their honesty, their intellectual ability, and their sense of history. It’s not one specific issue, it’s the makeup of the whole individual that has attracted me to them.
I have been involved in John Kerry’s campaigns, starting when he ran for Senate in 1984, and then again in 1990 and 1996. In 2002, he had no campaign to speak of, no challenger. I don’t consider myself a political junkie; I consider myself to be somebody who is very admiring and very supportive of John Kerry and want to do everything I can. I think this is a critically important election for the country. I think the country is categorically going in the wrong direction under George Bush, and I have every confidence in the honesty, the integrity, the character, the principles, and the motivation of John Kerry. I support him without question, without reserve.
In one of the most-ignored stories surrounding the Swift Boat Vets flap, the head of "Veterans for Kerry" is himself a former Vietnam war protester, who has known Kerry since 1971, and worked on each of his campaigns since 1984.
"Veterans for Kerry" was started by, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of, Kerry for President. It really isn't an organization at all, but the name of the Kerry campaign's outreach program to veterans, and it's head, picked by John Kerry, was indeed a veteran, but he first met Kerry when they were both war protesters.
The head of the group, John Hurley, a semi-retired Wellesley lawyer, works full-time for the Kerry campaign, and has worked on Kerry's previous campaigns dating back to at least 1984, by his own account. He also marched in the John Kerry/VVAW-organized "Dewey Canyon III" in 1971. (The medal-tossing protest.) Read for yourself:
http://www.drredwood.com/interviews/hurley.shtml
Hurley also has reportedly made calls to try to strong-arm people into changing their recollections of Kerry's VVAW past (such as his presence at the meeting discussing the plot to assassinate Senators):
http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/03/22&ID=Ar00106
He even posted this note searching for one of Kerry's crew in November, 1996
- remember this when they suggest that Kerry's this "Band of Brothers" reassembled on their own:
http://www.vietvet.org/navy005.htm
In case it's purged later, here's what it says:
John / Billybob
Wonder how John Hurley voted in Kanas City? May be someone in the FBI or such Knows.
This info should be sent to Rush, Sean, Savage and all the talk shows ASAP.
Was he at the meetin of VVAW where ASSASSINATING SENATORS was discussed and VOTED ON?? John Kerry was...was Hurley??
Robert Drinan is a DISGRACE!!!!
Where is that Lambert that SIGNED Kerry's Bronze Star??/ Why hasn't HE COME FORWARD?????
I sent it to them a week ago. Before Hurley was on their shows.
I need to re-check out the New Soldier.
Anyone know anything about this issue? Reported on FNC couple of days ago.
WHY IS AN EXPERT ON THE SWIFT BOATS WHEN HE WASN'T THERE????
Hurley is chapping my a*s.
It was signed by John Lehman of the 911 Commission!! He was Secy of the Navy 12 years AFTER Kerry was in...so WHY did he sign a citation for Kerry???
Is this the same John Hurley?
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=000&invol=U10260
John Hurlery, Kerry spokesman - anti-gay?
Gee, John. He called you a baby killer. And what did you do with those testicles? Zap 'em?
Wow, good work.
Lambert was the only witness & a SBV. I think he was on Thurlows boat. BTW, he also got a bronze for the actions that day.
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