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Truth in 'web connections'
The Washington Times ^ | August 25, 2004 | Editorial

Posted on 08/25/2004 4:18:40 AM PDT by Elkiejg

Last week, the Kerry campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission arguing that the Bush campaign illegally coordinated with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in developing their TV ads attacking John Kerry's Vietnam record. To help them in their efforts, the New York Times devoted a Page 1 story revealing the "the web of connections" between the swift boat donors and the Bush campaign.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 527; 527groups; fec; kerry; swiftboatveterans; webofconnections
AMEN!!
1 posted on 08/25/2004 4:18:40 AM PDT by Elkiejg
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To: Elkiejg

Its about time someone else notice the slime coming from Kerry's camp.


2 posted on 08/25/2004 4:21:42 AM PDT by boxerblues
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To: Elkiejg

btt


3 posted on 08/25/2004 4:46:18 AM PDT by GulliverSwift (No tomatoes were harmed during the making of this post)
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To: Elkiejg

Ginsberg contends that by offering legal advice to both the Bush campaign and the Swift Boat group, he has done nothing different from other election lawyers, including attorneys for Kerry and the Democratic National Committee who have also advised soft-money groups. Representing campaigns, parties and outside groups simultaneously is legal and allowed under the Federal Election Commission coordination rules, he said.

Joe Sandler, a lawyer for the DNC and MoveOn.org, a group running anti-Bush ads, said there is nothing wrong with serving in both roles at once. Attorneys are ethically bound to maintain attorney-client confidentiality, and could lose their law licenses if they violate that, he said.


4 posted on 08/25/2004 4:48:58 AM PDT by dennisw (Allah FUBAR!)
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http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7012

A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP

On Friday, Kerry campaign spokesman Debra Deshong was telling any reporter who would listen that there was a big difference between the negative advertisements being run by George Soros-funded MoveOn.org and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: "MoveOn.org is an independent organization that existed well before the Kerry campaign," she said, whereas the veterans group "is not an independent group."

Deshong denied that the campaign had any knowledge about MoveOn.org's financing or motives or plans in its almost $20 million attacks against President Bush. Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has spent about $800,000 on its advertising.

In fact, according to a Kerry campaign volunteer, staff members and volunteers of the Kerry campaign in New York, Washington, and Los Angeles have been in almost constant contact with MoveOn.org staffers, including advanced viewing and reviews of MoveOn.org television commercials, online ads, and web content. As well, MoveOn.org staffers provided the Kerry campaign with opposition research within the past two months, as well as advance looks at speeches made by MoveOn.org speakers, including former Vice President Al Gore.

"We're always running into those guys," says a Kerry campaign volunteer in Washington, about MoveOn.org staffers. "We socialize with them, we see them at meetings, we can't avoid it. And of course we talk about the campaign. In some cities, we get our volunteers from MoveOn. No one has ever raised an issue about it."

In some cases, it isn't just volunteers that the Kerry campaign is getting from MoveOn.org. They are hiring them too. In April, the Kerry campaign hired MoveOn's special projects and research director Jack Exley to oversee Kerry's campaign's website. At the time, the Kerry campaign made a point of saying that Exley was joining the campaign with not a single scrap of paper or computer disk from his time with MoveOn.

But Exley didn't need to bring much. According to another Kerry adviser, there were already so many back-channel relationships between the two organizations, Exley's presence to foster more was unnecessary. "As soon as it was clear Kerry had the nomination, we began coordinating. It's all done through the DNC and the AFL-CIO, which is financing many of the other groups out there running anti-Republican advertising. We will sit on conference calls, but we won't take part. We just take notes, then confer with our folks inside the DNC. That's the way it's done."

5 posted on 08/25/2004 5:03:24 AM PDT by GailA ( hanoi john, I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
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To: dennisw
Freeper N. Theknow says:
"It’s faster than a checkbook, more powerful than a Democratic demagogue, able to lay waste to a liar Kerry with the single click of a mouse. It's a little bird of truth, it's plain to see Kerry's unfit... it's... it's...SuperFReep!

Want to join in the fun?
Click the logo to donate to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth!

6 posted on 08/25/2004 5:25:05 AM PDT by Chieftain (Support the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and expose Hanoi John's FRAUD!)
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To: Elkiejg
It doesn't really matter...Bush lied! Right?

These liberals are absolutely off the rails with their logic. I going to preach to the choir a bit, but it needs to be said and said and said.

This is beyond human logic. It is beyond "moving the goal posts". It is beyond the general partisan rancor that accompanies any political campaign. It has moved into the realm of illogic; where up is down and down is up, where white is black and black is white, and where the only 2 discernable "facts" seem to be George Bush is wrong and George Bush is wrong.

I lack a logical explanation and all I can come with is that these liberal democrats are, literally, mentally deranged.

7 posted on 08/25/2004 6:04:33 AM PDT by mattdono ([mattdono to John Kerry]: I voted for you...right before I voted against you.)
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