Posted on 08/21/2004 11:57:21 PM PDT by FairOpinion
CRAWFORD - The Bush campaign said late Saturday that it dismissed an adviser on veterans issues after learning that he is part of an independent group that has been running anti-Kerry ads.
The Bush campaign said Kenneth Cordier, who appears in a new advertisement to be aired by the anti-Kerry group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, will no longer serve in his voluntary position on Bush's veterans steering committee.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
I think this election campaign reform didn't reform anything. Obviously isn't stopping the Democrats...
Democrats only legislate for the rest of us sheep to follow. They don't actually have to follow their own laws, remember?
Another article with more info:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1131&slug=Bush%20Cordier
"Retired Air Force Col. Ken Cordier, resigned as a member of the Bush campaign's veterans' steering committee after it was learned that he appeared with other former POWs in a 30-second ad, produced by the Swift Boat group, criticizing Kerry's congressional testimony.
Cordier spent six years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp."
He has good reason to be anti-Kerry. Is that now not allowed? Are Bush volunteers supposed to be Pro-Kerry now?
I know.
It is just frustrating, that the Dems get away with everything, and at the same time the Republicans get scutinized with a magnifying glass over anything.
The real relevant issue is whether the accusations against Kerry are true or not. Kerry could just release ALL his military service records. The Dems of course want to make everything else and everyone else the issue.
CRAWFORD, Tex. -- The Bush campaign said late yesterday that it dismissed an adviser on veterans issues after learning that he is part of an independent group that has been running anti-Kerry ads.
The Bush campaign said Kenneth Cordier, who appears in a new advertisement to be aired by the anti-Kerry group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, will no longer serve in his voluntary position on Bush's veterans steering committee. A Bush spokesman said Cordier had not previously informed the campaign that he had been involved with the group, but the Kerry campaign said the matter provides evidence supporting its complaint to the Federal Election Commission alleging illegal cooperation between the campaign and the independent group.
''Col. Cordier did not inform the campaign of his involvement in the advertisement being run by a 527 organization,'' Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt wrote in a statement, referring to the technical name for independent groups such as the Swift boat organization. Schmidt said Cordier ''will no longer participate as a volunteer for Bush-Cheney '04.''
Cordier's connection to the Bush campaign was made public by the Kerry campaign, which found that Cordier had been named on the Bush Web site earlier this month as a member of the veterans committee but that his name had subsequently been removed. A Bush aide said Cordier, who spent six years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and was a Bush supporter in 2000, called the campaign to disclose his involvement on Friday and was told he could no longer serve as an adviser to the campaign.
The ads by the Swift boat group, named for the type of boat Kerry commanded during the Vietnam War, caused a furious debate between the campaigns last week, with Kerry demanding that Bush condemn the ads, which suggest that Kerry did not earn his war decorations and that he betrayed his fellow veterans by his later antiwar activity. The Bush campaign has said it opposes ads by all outside groups but declined to specifically criticize the Swift boat ads.
The Swift boat veterans ad featuring Cordier, to air this week in Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Nevada, shows footage of Kerry's antiwar testimony from 1971. ''He betrayed us in the past -- how can we be loyal to him now?'' Cordier said in the ad.
Cordier could not be reached at his home in Dallas last night.
Kerry campaign spokesman Chad Clanton said the Cordier matter added more weight to its complaint filed last week with the FEC. ''This is another brick in the wall of evidence that the Bush campaign is behind this smear,'' he said. ''No wonder the president won't condemn the ads.''
Under law, political campaigns cannot coordinate with the 527 organizations, which are funded with unregulated ''soft'' money and have proved to be an enormous loophole in the new campaign-finance legislation. Bush aides have said there has been no coordination with the Swift boat group. ''We've already said we weren't involved in any way in these ads,'' White House spokesman Scott McClellan said last week. ''We've made that clear.''
But the Kerry campaign said that claim is put in doubt both by the Cordier issue and by various news accounts demonstrating close relationships between the Swift boat veterans and key Bush advisers. The Kerry campaign also asserts that a Kerry campaign volunteer picked up a Swift Boat Veterans for Truth flier at the Bush-Cheney office in Gainesville, Fla.
The Morning Journal
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1699&dept_id=46371&newsid=12751620&PAG=461&rfi=9
If he was going to associate with a 527 then he should have resigned his position before the ad came out. Forcing the Bush campaign to dismiss him only makes it look worse.
If he was going to associate with a 527 then he should have resigned his position before the ad came out. Forcing the Bush campaign to dismiss him only makes it look worse.
Where is the outrage about that?
Public relations woman has central role in Kerry ad controversy*** "These guys have a mission," Spaeth said of her role with Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group of Vietnam veterans who question the senator's claims of heroism. "I believe in them. I'm convinced they're telling the truth." ***
And I just read somewhere on FR today that Kerry has hired someone from Moveon.org. I don't recall in what capacity. Is that not collaborating and coordinating?
I feel for this veteran. Mr. Bush's campaign needs no ties with the vets for truth giving credence to Kerry's accusations. It is not right though.
However ties with Michael Moore, and the Bush lied Stuff seems to be just fine with everyone.
It's our job to make sure the MSM reports on this:
"The Democratic Party is partnering with MoveOn.org, People for the American Way, Campaign for America's Future, and dozens of other groups representing millions of Americans to organize a massive public mobilization. On Wednesday, May 14, join us by calling and emailing your representatives in Congress to let them know that the majority of Americans oppose more irresponsible tax cuts that go overwhelmingly to the wealthiest sliver of Americans."
Message sent by Democratic Party Women’s Vote Center in May, 2004.
Thank you Johnny McCain, "speech" god. Time for McCain to be held account for his lunacy.
Interesting times when people who normally could never get a "security" clearance get elected and automatically get to see the "secrets" that are held to protect a nation.
Maybe this should be "STEP" 1 in being eligible for elected office.
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