Posted on 06/04/2004 4:48:26 PM PDT by Kaslin
The man tapped by Sen. John Kerry to enforce loyalty at the Democratic National Committee had to resign in disgrace from Michael Dukakis' 1988 presidential campaign, after revealing that then-Dukakis presidential rival Sen. Joe Biden was a plagiarist.
John Sasso, who managed the failed Dukakis campaign, has been installed as Kerry's key man at the DNC, the New York Post reported Friday, in a bid to keep an eye on Clinton loyalist, DNC chair Terry McAuliffe.
"[Sasso] is totally loyal to Kerry," the Post's source said.
But what the Post didn't say was that the top Kerry aide was forced to resign from the Dukakis campaign in Sept. 1987, after admitting he distributed a videotape that proved rival candidate Biden had been using verbatim excerpts from speeches of British Labor political leader Neil Kinnock without attribution.
The revelation prompted increased scrutiny of Biden's record, which turned out to include a case plagiarism committed in law school. Biden was also forced to admit he had lied about his academic record.
The Delaware Democrat withdrew from the presidential race on Sept. 23, 1987.
After firing Sasso, Dukakis told angry Biden supporters, "There is no place in American politics for this type of thing."
Apparently Sen. Kerry disagrees.
Apparently Sen. Kerry disagrees
I thought this was especially interesting
No holds barred this time around. We're in for a ride...
I sent email to about 10 places about this (alphabet channels, fox, drudge, etc) and never heard a word. I'm happy that newmax (who I failed to write) found this story. It says more about Kerry and how he will run his race than anything else.
Hey - the wrong guy resigned!! It should have been Joe Biden. The RATS are still voing him in. They have no morals - do they?!
Plagiarism? I don't think that really means much in the face of what is likely to come from Kerry.
Election fraud, campaign finance laws broken, and intentional dis-information campaigns....
Does that surprise you?
Did they ever?
sasso did nothing wrong in exposing biden. the dems are weird, even toward each other.
Sadly, no.
You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly -- Tom's Aunt Polly, she is -- and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.
Election fraud? You betcha and he's already on the way of breaking campaign finance laws, and into intenional dis-information campaigns
Yes, they did. There were many honorable Democrats before Billy Blythe and Miss Hitlery took over the party and trashed it.
You got that right .. it's very interesting .. in lieu of the fact that Biden is all over the TV calling everybody in the Bush admin liars. The next time I see him on TV making some disparaging remarks, I'm going to contact the media outlet and remind them that Biden has admitted he lied about his academic record.
It may seem like a small item, but sometimes when these idiots find out the public knows their backgrounds, they back off.
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