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Democrats seek to curb attack ads ( Dukakis and Kerry )
Boston Globe ^ | July 9, 2006 | Frank Phillips

Posted on 07/09/2006 6:01:09 PM PDT by george76

Democrats seek to curb attack ads... Dukakis heads watchdog panel...

The state Democratic Party has created a four-member panel, headed by former governor Michael S. Dukakis, that will review campaign advertisements and publicly rebuke candidates who use negative attacks.

Party chairman Philip W. Johnston created the panel and will serve on it, along with Dukakis and Cameron F. Kerry, brother of US Senator John F. Kerry; and Katherine M. Clark of Melrose, a former state Senate candidate who is chairing a statewide campaign effort for the Democratic Party.

Johnston, elected party chairman in 2000, said he believes that a major reason many Democratic nominees for governor have failed to win in general elections is the barrage of negative ads that fill the airways and are mailed to voters during primaries.

``I believe the party has a real responsibility to do what it can to minimize the political damage to our nominees during the primary," Johnston said.

``This initiative can act as a deterrent to candidates and make their media consultants think twice before they produce harshly negative commercials attacking their opponents."

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: cameronfkerry; democraticparty; democrats; dukakis; electionads; heinzkerry; johnston; kerry; michaeldukakis; philipwjohnston; teresaheinz; teresaheinzkerry; teresakerry
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To: Lancey Howard; Grampa Dave

Good find !

"culture of corruption"


21 posted on 07/09/2006 6:51:02 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Andy'smom
Good memory !

Did Cameron expose Joe Biden on his plagiarism ?
22 posted on 07/09/2006 6:52:37 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: C210N
...so the penalty for a 'pub using an "attack ad" is for the 'rats to "rebuke" with an ad attack in return.

I guess so, but honestly, who cares? The dems are going to attack anyways whether they are "justified" or not since they get to set the ground rules. The truth doesn't matter to them, especially if it paints them guilty of something. They'll just whine about the republicans being mean and muddy the waters to conceal the truth.

23 posted on 07/09/2006 6:55:17 PM PDT by infidel29 ("Growing old is inevitable ... growing UP is optional.")
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To: SandRat
They always try to do that when they're on the receiving end; but never when they're on the transmitting end. Then they say "Hey! Politics is a Rough-n-Tumble affair. If you can't take it you shouldn't be in Politics."

Sounds like Hamas and the Palis, demanding a ceasefire because the Israelis are kicking their butts all over Gaza. Losing hurts.

24 posted on 07/09/2006 6:57:30 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: george76

25 posted on 07/09/2006 8:27:13 PM PDT by mirkwood (Gun control isn't about guns. It's about control.)
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To: george76

Dukakis!? thats rich. Anyone who has heard him speak at a dinner has heard how partisan and attacking he can be.

This is very "Jimmy Carter" of him.


26 posted on 07/09/2006 8:36:13 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: george76

Michael Dukakis is STILL ALIVE?


27 posted on 07/10/2006 12:18:38 AM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Has the New York Times ever thwarted a top secret AL-QAEDA operation?)
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To: george76

The MoveOn ad attacking Thelma Drake has hurt.

....the democrats. LOL!


28 posted on 07/10/2006 2:26:03 AM PDT by OpusatFR ( ALEA IACTA EST. We have just crossed the Rubicon.)
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To: george76

As this is in Mass, the only negative ads they are looking to thwart are those against the incumbent. The negative ad is critical to the challenger attempting to kill off an incumbent.

Clearest indication of incumbency protection I've seen since McFeiGold.


29 posted on 07/10/2006 2:41:52 AM PDT by steveyp
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To: george76
Mommy! Those nasty Wepubwickans are picking on me! Make 'em stop it, Mommy! Tell the Boston Globe to make 'em stop it!

Republican Governor Ed King (who deposed Dukakis after his first term as Governor) won a liable action against the Boston Globe showing they had acted with "actual malice" in printing untruths about him during his rematch with Dukasis, a rematch which the little twerp won. Nothing negative there, no sir, just rock solid journalism in the vaunted traditions of Mary Mapes.

30 posted on 07/10/2006 2:59:03 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
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To: mirkwood
Post #25

Priceless...

But, please tell me that your pic of Kerry is reversed. He wouldn't dare salute with his left hand, or would he?

31 posted on 07/10/2006 3:52:11 AM PDT by Texas Jack
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To: george76
Dukakis heads watchdog panel...

Who?

32 posted on 07/10/2006 3:53:43 AM PDT by Allegra (A Journey of 1,000 Miles Begins with A Bunch of Security Hassles at the Airport)
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To: george76
Post #4...the (in)famous Mike-in-a-Tank shot.

The picture that just keeps on giving (good laughs).

33 posted on 07/10/2006 3:56:31 AM PDT by Allegra (A Journey of 1,000 Miles Begins with A Bunch of Security Hassles at the Airport)
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To: smoothsailing

34 posted on 07/10/2006 4:00:12 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: george76
The DUmmie strategy is to be against everything... and to offer nothing serious.

And now they are cutting off the one area of political discorse they have. If a Donk can't say something negative, he can't say anything at all.

What are they going to do, come out foursquare for blue skies and fluffy bunnies? They got nothing to say.

35 posted on 07/10/2006 4:00:54 AM PDT by gridlock (The 'Pubbies will pick up two (2) seats in the Senate and four (4) seats in the House in 2006)
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To: george76

....In other news, wheel chair bound quadraplegics all walked home from the John Edwards for President campaign stop in a socially decrepit neighborhood of Detroit where woman, infant and children have been most effected by the Republican "Big Oil" tax policies of the now much warmer world of the 2000's..


36 posted on 07/10/2006 4:00:54 AM PDT by IamConservative (Who does not trust a man of principle? A man who has none.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Cameron Kerry was arrested after breaking into one of his idiot brother's opponent's campaign office with the intent of wiretapping the phones.

But it did not happen at the Watergate Hotel, so the MSM can be forgiven for not seeing that this was "Another Watergate"...

37 posted on 07/10/2006 4:02:44 AM PDT by gridlock (The 'Pubbies will pick up two (2) seats in the Senate and four (4) seats in the House in 2006)
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To: mirkwood

Hey, at least Benny Hill is funny (Not really fair to compare him to Kerry. taints his name.)


38 posted on 07/10/2006 4:27:53 AM PDT by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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To: george76
Democrats seek to curb attack ads...

They could begin by stopping their use of them. But the sad thing is, they work, so both parties will never completely drop them from their play book.

It seems more likely that they're interested in devising some method to silence the American people in general, such as the Swift boat veterans. The dems do not really believe in free speech.

39 posted on 07/10/2006 4:37:04 AM PDT by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: Andy'smom

"...didn't he get caught breaking into the headquarters of his brother's opponents?"

Sounds like Watergate to me. But wait, this about democrats, so it was just an innocent misunderstanding.


40 posted on 07/10/2006 5:40:42 AM PDT by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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