MoveOn.org Staffer Moving Over to Kerry Campaign

CNSNEWS.com ^ | 4/08/04 | Susan Jones

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CNSNews.com) - The campaign of Democrat John F. Kerry has hired a new director of online communications -- and the new guy comes from MoveOn.org, the anti-Bush group that Republicans view as a shadow Kerry campaign.

In fact, the Republican Party recently filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, accusing the Kerry campaign of illegally coordinating its political advertising and other campaign activities with groups such as MoveOn.org.

The Kerry campaign denied coordinating anything with those groups, which use "soft" (unlimited) donations to pay for anti-Bush ads.

But Republicans say Democrats are violating the new campaign finance law -- making a "mockery" of it by using soft money to influence a federal election.

Under the new law, groups such as MoveOn.org are supposed to be entirely separate from the Kerry campaign, but Republicans say there's cross-pollination - and having MoveOn.org's Jack Exley move-on-over to the Kerry campaign is raising Republican eyebrows.

Anticipating such a reaction, the head of the MoveOn.org PAC, Eli Pariser, on Wednesday indicated there's nothing wrong with a MoveOn.org operative coming over to work for the Kerry campaign.

"To guard against any risk or appearance of improper coordination between MoveOn and the Kerry campaign, steps are being taken to make sure Exley doesn't communicate with anyone at MoveOn until after the November election," Pariser was quoted as saying.

Wire reports said Zack Exley worked as a special projects director for MoveOn.org's political action committee. Pariser said he did research and worked on mobilizing MoveOn.org supporters.

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"To guard against any risk or appearance of improper coordination between MoveOn and the Kerry campaign, steps are being taken to make sure Exley doesn't communicate with anyone at MoveOn until after the November election," Pariser was quoted as saying.

And they wouldn't lie, would they?

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[samtheman]

Internal lateral transfer. Why is this news? Every organization allows employees to transfer jobs from time to time. Why should the MoveOn.Org.Kerry.Campaign be any different?

[prairiebreeze]

ping

[boomop1]

Scumbag moves on.

[MrB]

Amazing how they can't "move on" from Fla 2000.