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Posted on 08/26/2004 11:48:53 AM PDT by The_Macallan
DNC admits it is "partnering" with MoveOn.org
Democratic National Committee Website, look near the bottom to find:
"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."
More... Kerry Campaign/MoveOn.org Connection
Kerry hires online chief from MoveOn
John Kerry has hired an Internet-savvy Democrat to run his presidential campaign's online communications, a move that raises new questions about the link between his campaign and the independent groups that run TV ads on his behalf.
Zach Exley, the director of special projects for the MoveOn PAC, is going to the Kerry campaign to become its director of online communications and organization.
And yet even MORE... Direct Connections Between the DNC, John Kerry and 527s
* Harold Ickes Is A Member Of DNC's Executive Committee And Head Of The Media Fund And Chief Of Staff To America Coming Together. Ickes "Admits That He Occasionally Tells The Kerry Camp What He's Up To, And He Insists It's Perfectly Legal."
(Jim Drinkard, "'Outside' Political Groups Full Of Party Insiders," USA Today, 6/28/04; Paula Dwyer, "Why 527 Is The Dems' Lucky Number," BusinessWeek Online, 7/28/04)
* Bob Bauer Of Perkins Coie Is Legal Counsel To Both Kerry Campaign And America Coming Together (ACT).
(Jim Rutenberg And Kate Zernike, "Veteran's Group Had GOP Lawyer," The New York Times, 8/25/04)
* Kerry Campaign Paid Bauer's Law Firm, Perkins Coie, $360,244.28 For Legal Services And Other Expenses.
(Federal Election Commission Records, http://www.fec.gov, Accessed 8/5/04)
* Joe Sandler Is General Counsel To DNC While Serving As Legal Counsel To 527s MoveOn.org And Moving America Forward.
(Jonathan Groner, "Power Punch," Legal Times, 4/26/04)
* Erik Smith Is The Media Fund's Executive Director And Worked With Steve Elmendorf, Kerry's Deputy Campaign Manager, On Dick Gephardt's Presidential Campaign.
(Jim VandeHei, "Kerry Expected To Emerge From Battle Stronger Than Ever," The Washington Post, 3/3/04)
* Minyon Moore, A Kerry Campaign Consultant, Serves On Executive Committee Of America Coming Together.
(Glen Johnson, "Kerry To Press 'Environmental Justice,'" The Boston Globe, 4/22/03; Lisa Getter, "Kerry Aided By 'Illegal' Soft Money, GOP Claims," Los Angeles Times, 4/1/04)
* Media Fund Ad Consultant Bill Knapp Hired By Kerry Campaign.
(Thomas B. Edsall, "Shifting The Money So The Votes Will Follow," The Washington Post, 5/11/04)
* Kerry's New Mexico Caucus Director, Geri Prado, Is Leading ACT's GOTV Effort In That State.
(Michael Finnegan, "Kerry's Low Profile May Cost Crucial Latino Votes," Los Angeles Times, 5/3/04)
* The Dewey Square Group Provides Political Consulting Services For Both Kerry Campaign And America Coming Together (ACT).
* Kerry Campaign Has Paid Dewey Square Group $194,936.48 For Political Consulting And Other Expenses.
(Federal Election Commission Records, www.fec.gov, Accessed 8/5/04)
* America Coming Together (ACT) Has Paid Dewey Square Group $51,808 For Political Consulting And Other Expenses.
(Political Money Line Website, www.tray.com, Accessed 8/5/04)
* At Least Four Kerry Advisors Are Associated With Dewey Square Group: Michael Whouley, Jill Alper, Minyon Moore And Joe Ricca.
(Glen Johnson, "Kerry To Press 'Environmental Justice,'" The Boston Globe, 4/22/03; Dewey Square Group Website, http://www.deweysquare.com/, Accessed 2/5/04; Peter Grier, "How Kerry Turned The Corner," Christian Science Monitor, 2/5/04; Glen Johnson and John Aloysius Farrell, "Kerry's New-Look Campaign Relies On A Few Key Players," The Boston Globe, 1/9/03)
* Michael Meehan, Now A Communications Advisor To Kerry, Was Hired By NARAL In 2003 To "Oversee Its Vastly Expanded Soft-Money Operation." His Hiring Was "Billed As A Two-Month Leave From His Job As Political Director Of NARAL."
(Carol Beggy and Mark Shanahan, "Names," The Boston Globe, 11/21/03; Chris Cillizza, "NARAL Plans Big '04 Effort," Roll Call, 5/8/03)
Follow The Money.........
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And we've all watched the lamestream press NOT report on the DNC/MoveOn connections.
Someday Old Media is going to wake up and find they've become as irrelevant as Old Europe and the UN.
Nice research especially about the DNC's own website. I hope you cached that page because if you didn't some DNC lurker will take that off the website.
The lamestream media would never do anything to create an issue with their annoited one... sKerry.
If this is accurate, it needs to go on Drudge.
Didn't JF'nK quip into the test mike at the DNC Convention?
"Members of the Fourth Estate, you days are over!"
Have you sent this to Drudge/Rush/Hannity yet?
If they plan on keeping this close they better start cheating better.
Thanks for your work --- o.k. freepers, let's send this well researched list to every MSM outlet we can. FLOOD THEM!!
It's from the GOP web site and I got it via e-mail the other day from either the GOP or the George W. Bush campaign mailing.
What is Drudge's e-mail address?
And we've all watched the lamestream press NOT report on the DNC/MoveOn connections
Chris Bury on Nightline did last night.Shocked the H*ll out of me.
Ginsberg tore his a** up in the interview.
I'd have paid good money to watch that!
Yeah, its just too bad the [partisan] media will not expose the the Democrats. They will censor by omission.
Go to his website and post it in the box underneath the words "Send news tips to drudge (anonymity guaranteed)."
And even these organizations admit they run their ads past the DNC first. The media is hung up on connections when the law says coordinate. There is no evidence the RNC has coordinated with 527's, but the Democrats clearly have.
DNC sides and partners with Pyongyang too. Nothing new to see here!
Will do.
I suggest we all do it so he pays attention.
You would have found it worth every dime.
I couldn't contain myself...had to email Bury to let him know how much I enjoyed his show.
Actually, much to my surprise, ABC news last night did mention the connections between the DNC, MoveOn, ACT, and the Media Fund. They even went through the main players on the Dem side that would be the equivalent of Ginsberg: Sandler and Bauer. I didn't have a timer, but I would say that they spent more time on the Dem connections than on the Ginsberg connection. I was dumbstruck because it was one of the few examples of a balanced story I have ever seen in the MSM. I had to check to make sure I wasn't watching Fox.
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