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Senator Do-Nothing
Posted on 08/22/2004 3:19:29 AM PDT by dread78645
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former POW resigned as a volunteer to President Bush's re-election campaign Saturday after it was learned that he appeared in an anti-John Kerry ad sponsored by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
The Bush campaign has claimed no connection with the group which has led an attack on Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, questioning his war record in Vietnam and criticizing his testimony at a congressional hearing in 1971 in which Kerry alleged U.S. troops committed atrocities.
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.
"Col. Cordier did not inform the campaign of his involvement in the advertisement," the Bush campaign said in a statement. "Because of his involvement (with the group) Col. Cordier will no longer participate as a volunteer for Bush-Cheney '04."
Cordier spent six years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.
The White House and the Bush campaign have denied any direct connection with Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which is funded in part by a top GOP donor in Texas.
"The president has made it repeatedly clear that he wants to see an end to all" advertising from outside groups, said Brian Jones, a Bush campaign spokesman.
Kerry, at a fundraiser in East Hampton, N.Y., on Saturday called on Bush to "stand up and stop" what he called personal attacks on him over his combat record in Vietnam by the Swift Boat group.
The president needs to stand up and stop that. The president needs to have the courage to talk about it," said Kerry.
Then the dems will have to explain why directors for moveon.org are higherups in the Kerry campaign.
This is garbage. SO if I want to volunteer for a campaign...I can no longer exercise my right to be heard?!
MoveOn.org official joins Kerry campaign staff - GOP has assailed group for links to the senator (April 9, 2004)
Not through a 527 organization, no.
Well then it's our job to freep the MSM with this news:
"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.
the law is not written that way.
The law deals with the financial end of it.
He is not in a paid position with the campaign.
Money from the Bush campaign is not being used in the 527
He does not appear in the ad on behalf or at the behest of the Bush campaign.
A casualty of CFR.
But hte preception is there. I have no problem with him appearing in the ad, but he should have resigned first rather than make Bush's people boot him out.
http://www.democrats.org/wvc/weekinreview/200305120002.html
Kerry will mishandle this. And it will blowup in his face like everything else.
He has many people who work on his staff who are with moveon.org. Paid campaign folks who have given money to moveon.
I talked with a gentleman the other night about filing a freedom of information request on Kerry. For his records in relation to the actions which the Swifties have brought up. Also for the adjustments made to his write up for the Silver Star. It seems it has the signature of a Sec. of Navy from 1980/81ish. If he sent a request for changes...it would go in the FOI. Same with who signed on it. The FOI covers all but classified material.
I need to get a group together and work on that.
Anybody got any ideas?
Bttt
Cordier is a member of a 527 organization. Unions aren't 527s.
Once can only hope.
Tell Kerry to condemn MoveOn.org and their OBVIOUS collusion with the DNC:
Ask the media why they haven't reported on this:
DNC Chief Operating Officer Josh Wachs (left), Senator Leahy, and Zack Exley from Moveon.org pose with the more than 310,000 signatures.
http://www.democrats.org/blog/display/00010183.html
Kerry needs to quit the cheap shots and release his records.
bttt
More self-flagellating behavior from the Bush campaign.
The question should be: Does Bush really even want to win this thing? [And I don't just mean the war against terror, either]
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