CORPORATE CONDUCT: THE POLITICS; Secretive Group Re-emerges With Advertising Hostile to Bush
*Please Note: Archive articles do not include photos, charts or graphics. More information. July 10, 2002, Wednesday
By DANIEL ALTMAN (NYT); Business/Financial Desk
Late Edition - Final, Section C, Page 6, Column 1, 588 words
Correction Appended
DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - American Family Voices, small, secretive group that used television advertisements to attack George W Bush during his campaign for president, re-emerges to point links between oil companies with questionable accounting practices and Bush administration; group has paid for 30-second commercial on cable news programs in New York that calls Bush 'sly like a fox' for talking down his dealings with Harken Energy, oil company on whose board he once sat; Bush sold stock in Harken twelve years ago just before it reported $23.2 million loss, and he reported sale to Securities and Exchange Commission eight months late; commercial also criticizes Vice Pres Dick Cheney for his ties to Halliburton, oil services company that SEC is investigating; commercial suggests that SEC chairman Harvey L Pitt is unfit for job because he was once lawyer for several accounting firms, including Arthur Andersen; group's president Michael Lux declines to say who donated money for television time, but group and its ad agency Glover Park Group have significant links to Clinton administration; Lux was aide to Clinton, and partners at Glover Park include Joe Lockhart, who was once Clinton's press secretary, and Carter Eskew and Michael Feldman, who advisers to Al Gore's unsuccessful campaign for president in 2000; Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri says committee has nothing to do with commercial; adds James Carville, once top campaigner for Clinton, is involved with American Family Voices
Correction: July 11, 2002, Thursday An article in Business Day yesterday about a television commercial highlighting the Bush administration's links to companies involved in accounting investigations included one political strategist erroneously among those involved with American Family Voices, the group that produced it. James Carville said he had not participated.
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Any idea who fronts the money for Lux and his spinoff groups?
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