[Flashback to: March 7, 2004] RNC tells TV stations not to run anti-Bush ads

CNN ^ | Sunday, March 7, 2004 Posted: 12:07 AM EST (0507 GMT)

[uncbob]

The Campaign Finance Law is silly.

And Bush signed it and those of us who predicted it would be a disaster especially since Bush promised to veto it were vilified as Bush Bashers

[AndyJackson]

I can't find anything too recent that would prove Sandler is still a member of the DNC.

From February 1993 until May 1998, Mr. Sandler served on the staff of the DNC as general counsel. He continues to serve in that position through his law firm.

[AndyJackson]

If this article was originally posted on March 7, 2004, then that is a horse of a different color. The question now becomes: why is CNN putting it on their web-site now?

This is an old article. The point wasn't about the topic of the article but the fact that Joseph Sandler is the DNC general counsel, represents MoveOn.org and wrote a letter representing the Kerry Campaign.

[TommyDale]

If Sandler was the attorney for MoveOn.org, and the attorney for the DNC, doesn't that make the case that the DNC and MoveOn.org are guilty of coordinating their campaign advertising illegally?

[AndyJackson]

Well, a reasonable person might draw that conclusion. Furthermore, it puts Sandler in a very difficult position. He cannot defend himself, MoveOn.org and the DNC all at the same time, all of which are separate legal entities.

[TommyDale]

Have you sent this information to any of the lackluster news media?

[Jim Robinson]

Woo hoo!! Go Pat Go!!

[Jim Robinson]

(Pat Buchanan just came out pounding the table air, calling Kerry a traitor!)

[js1138]

Does this mean that all those Palm Beach folks who voted for Pat in 2000 will vote for Bush in 2004?

[Jim Robinson]

I think Pat just endorsed GWB. He's fighting mad. LOL

[js1138]

Check this out:


http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=John+Hurley+VVAW

[RightthinkinAmerican]

The Rats will be screaming for it if the Swifties torpedo their "man". Tens of millions of dollars in anti-Bush 527 ads haven't done a thing to Bush, and a few hundred thousand in Swiftie ads may ruin Kerry. 527's will be DEADLY to the weak candidate who has a lot to hide, and the Dimwits will finally realize that they are their own Achilles heel. The media can only cover so much for them if 527's continue exist and can expose what they want to hide so badly. They wanted their 527's as a way to muzzle Repub donations, intending to "go around" and exploit the law all along. Well, they got them, and now they regret it. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

[Mo1]

The above Article identifies MoveOn.org's attorney as Joseph Sandler. Joseph Sandler, is general counsel for the DNC. It will be recalled by all on this forum that Joseph Sandler was co-author of the hit-piece on the Swift Boat Vets written to TV stations warning them not to run the ad.

That sure looks like a direct connect to me

But hey .. what do I know

[RightthinkinAmerican]

My thoughts exactly.

[NurdlyPeon]

I have the same question that TommyDale does. Why would CNN print an article that appears to be damaging to the RATS. I understand what you are saying, but why is CNN doing it?

[RightthinkinAmerican]

But it's backfiring on them beautifully, so who cares. Maybe Bush foresaw this as a way to damage the incredibly weak candidate, who wasn't touchable by normal means. After all, tens of millions in anti-Bush 527 ads, and Bush is still ahead. One little Swifty 527 in three states, and Kerry is teetering.

[AndyJackson]

Why would CNN print an article that appears to be damaging to the RATS

This is an old article. I posted it because it demonstrates the connections between DNC, Kerry and MoveOn.org through Sandler. I don't think the full article, at the time it was published was damaging. If anything, at the time it would have made the RNC look like a bunch of whiners.

[RightthinkinAmerican]

It wasn't damaging to them when they printed it, it was meant to smear the Repubs for trying to stifle Dim 527's. He is merely renminding us of the old article, and the significance of the comments made by Dims THEN, and how they show hypocrisy by their recent anti-Swifty statements. They sang a different tune when the shoe was on the other foot.

[NurdlyPeon]

Okay. Finally, the light just went on in my head that this did not come from TODAYS CNN web-site. Sorry everybody, I think I need to just go to bed.

[combat_boots]

Don't forget Kerry's former campaign manager, Jim Jordan:

"......well-organized web of groups with deep pockets and, they say, 20 million members, mobilizing liberals and like-minded voters to they hope oust President Bush.

"Jim Jordan, Kerry's former campaign manager and now a consultant to the groups, refers to the coalition as "sort of a campaign without a candidate."

"We hope obviously to help elect John Kerry, and there's no doubt that what happens at the top of the ticket influences races everywhere," he says. "By putting together real effective and efficient turnout operations, we're hoping to elect Democrats down at the courthouse level, the city council level."

"The groups have names like America Coming Together, the Media Fund and the MoveOn.org Voter Fund. An umbrella organization that keeps the coalition organized is called America Votes.

"Many of the leaders have personal or professional ties to Kerry, former President Bill Clinton, organized labor and just about every leading liberal political organization.

"They are mobilizing volunteers and registering voters, using computers and Palm Pilots in gathering data from each household, broadening their membership and fine-tuning what they hope is a compelling message.

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