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Heard of Watergate? Get ready for Lowellgate. On Sept. 18, 1972, the evening before the primary election during his second attempt for Congress, Kerry's brother Cameron and one Thomas Vallely, both part of his current campaign team, were arrested by Lowell police at 1:40 a.m. and charged with breaking and entering with the intent to commit larceny. The two were apprehended in the basement of a building whose door had been forced open, police said. It housed the headquarters of candidate DiFruscia. The Watergate scandal was making headlines at this time, and it was called the Lowell Watergate. "They wanted...

--The state Democratic party is tapping U.S. Sen. John Kerry's brother, Cameron Kerry, to co-chair a committee designed to help them win the one race that has eluded them for more than a decade: the governor's office Cameron Kerry, an attorney with the politically connected law firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, will co-chair the Massachusetts Victory '06 Coordinated Campaign with attorney Katherine Clark, a former Democratic candidate for state Senate. Tracey Lewis, deputy director for John Kerry's leadership committee, Keeping America's Promise, has been named the committee's campaign manager. Cameron Kerry served as an adviser and confidant...

You need to know only two words about Sen. John Forbes Kerry's little brother, Cameron. The words are ``break'' and ``in.'' In 1972, Cameron Forbes Kerry decided to break in . . . to the headquarters of a mere state rep who had the temerity to run for Congress against his brother John. In 2005, Cameron decides to break in . . . to politics. He wants to run for secretary of state because, well, you have to start somewhere. Just ask Max Kennedy. What I want to know is, why would you want to be running for secretary of...

Top strategists with John Kerry's presidential campaign are blaming his crushing defeat last week on bad advice from Clinton operatives who took over the campaign after Labor Day. "When [James] Carville and [Stan] Greenberg tell reporters that the campaign was missing a defining narrative, they forget that they were the ones insisting we had to keep beating the domestic-issues drum," complained David Thorne on Thursday. Thorne - a brother-in-law from Kerry's first marriage to Julia Thorne - was one of Kerry's closest advisors throughout the campaign. Thorne told political gadfly Arianna Huffington that because of the misguided Carville-Greenberg strategy, "We...

Still reeling from his loss to President Bush on Tuesday, Senator John Kerry is being urged by top advisers and friends to take a high-profile role as the Democratic Party grapples with issues like selecting its next chairman and shaping its identity and course. Unlike Al Gore, who made a tortured exit from the public stage after his loss to Mr. Bush four years ago, Mr. Kerry has a Senate seat to return to and is under no pressure to disappear from view for the sake of national unity and the legitimacy of the presidency, his advisers say. They argue...

To win the primary, the newcomer overcame the election eve arrest of his brother, Cameron, and campaign field director Thomas J. Vallely, both then 22, in the basement of a Lowell building that housed the headquarters of Kerry and another Democratic contender, state Representative Anthony R. DiFruscia of Lawrence. It was almost 2 a.m. - 30 hours before the polls opened - when the two were arrested on charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny. That day's Sun blared a memorable, double-deck headline: "Kerry brother arrested in Lowell `Watergate."' DiFruscia, getting some extra ink in the campaign's...

For Kerry’s Jewish brother, pickle choice is order of day By Uriel Heilman NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (JTA) — In a ritual well known to Jewish New Yorkers, Sen. John Kerry’s campaign participated in a tradition this week that long has been a prerequisite of campaigning in the city Rev. Jesse Jackson once infamously dubbed “Hymietown.” The campaign came to a kosher deli. The Democratic nominee himself was busy stumping in Florida — a state where, unlike New York, the vote actually may matter this year — so his Jewish brother, Cameron Kerry, was dispatched to eat the obligatory smoked-meat...

...........A dozen or more Jewish civic and political officials -- led by Steve Grossman, former chairman of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and Alan Solomont, Kerry's New England finance chairman -- will campaign in Florida, Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, where Jewish voters could well tip the balance and decide the presidential election. A key player in the effort is Kerry's brother Cameron, who attended the group's initial meeting a month ago in Solomont's offices to help plot strategy. The candidate's brother, who converted to Judaism more than two decades ago, returned two weeks ago from a visit to Israel...

BOSTON - When a young John Kerry launched his first election campaign in 1972, he tapped his 21-year-old brother, Cameron, to serve as his political director. More than three decades later, the soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee — now surrounded by a cadre of high-paid, high-powered political professionals — still relies heavily upon his little brother as a top adviser, fund-raiser, sounding board and confidant. Over the past two years, the Massachusetts senator has consulted with Cameron before making the most monumental decisions of his presidential quest: how to vote on the Iraq war resolution, whether to fire the manager of...

Ready to Rumble: More than 20 Jewish Democratic lawmakers are volunteering to debate President Bush's Jewish Republican partisans on any aspect of John Kerry's record. "The Bush-Cheney campaign thought they could get away with mischaracterizing Kerry's record. Let's do Israel. Let's do domestic policy. Bring it on," said the executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, Ira Forman, who extended the invitation to debate in a letter to Bush's campaign manager, Ken Mehlman, and the Republican Jewish Coalition. "I can't tell you how easy it was to get them," Forman said of the Democratic lawmakers who volunteered. "We're not...

<p>DEMOCRATIC presidential front-runner John Kerry and Richard M. Nixon have something in common - Sen. Kerry's political history is scarred by its own version of Watergate.</p> <p>During Kerry's 1972 bid for Congress, his younger brother, Cameron Kerry, was arrested for "breaking into . . . the headquarters of a Kerry opponent," the New York Times reported on Sept. 19 of that year. Kerry's headquarters were in the same building in Lowell, Mass.</p>

South Florida's Jewish retirees may not live to see the day the country elects its first Jewish president, but they could settle for the next best thing: a president with a Jewish brother. Presidential candidate John Kerry's younger brother, Cameron Kerry, brought that message to town Monday when he campaigned as a Jewish convert in Palm Beach County Democratic Jewish strongholds west of Boca Raton and in Boynton Beach. It was the first time that many of the politically active retirees in Century Village and Westchester Country Club had heard about Cameron Kerry's unorthodox credentials. Reared Catholic like his older...

Cameron Kerry, the younger brother of Democratic presidential nominee in the United States, Senator John Kerry, is expected to visit Israel next week. He is scheduled to meet with Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, the director of the Prime Minister's office, Dov Weisglass, head of the opposition MK Shimon Peres, and others. Accompanying Cameron Kerry on his tour of the country will be Senator Kerry's adviser on Israel affairs, Jay Footlik. Cameron Kerry converted to Judaism when he married Kathy Weinman of Michigan, and later learned that his paternal grandparents were Czech Jews who had converted to Christianity before immigrating to...

John Kerry's younger brother Cameron will be the presidential candidate's emissary to Israel this week. And it's a job that turns out to have surprising resonance for the 53-year-old Boston Brahmin, who converted to Judaism in 1983 when he married his wife, Kathy Weinman. "It's an opportunity for Cam Kerry and his wife to develop a deeper understanding of Jewish life, and to get a firsthand look to see how Israel is coping with the challenges of terrorism," said Kerry campaign spokesman Luis Vizcaino. It's also an opportunity for the younger Kerry to get in touch with some unexpected roots....

Fri., July 09, 2004 Tamuz 20, 5764 Kerry's Jewish brother to visit Israel By Aluf Benn Cameron Kerry, the younger brother of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in the United States, Senator John Kerry, is expected to visit Israel next week. He is scheduled to meet with Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, the director of the Prime Minister's office, Dov Weisglass, head of the opposition MK Shimon Peres, and others. Accompanying Cameron Kerry on his tour of the country will be Senator Kerry's adviser on Israel affairs, Jay Footlik. Cameron Kerry converted to Judaism when he married Kathy Weinman of Michigan, and...

Cameron Kerry As many of you know, one of the things John Kerry's leftist base is most uncomfortable about is his strong support (at least on paper) of Israel. In fact, his pro-Israel policy paper last week caused severe consternation among Kerry supporters. There is a little secret that the media has kept from the people, in deference to the anti-Israel stance of the left wing of the Democratic party, and that is the existence of the Jewish brother of John Kerry, Cameron Kerry. Not only is he a converted Jew, he is a prominent lawyer for a major Boston...

WASHINGTON, May 7, 2003 — Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., whose largest campaign contributor lobbies on behalf of telecommunication interests, pushed the legislative priorities of its clients in the wireless industry on several occasions, a Center for Public Integrity analysis of campaign, lobbying and congressional records has found. That analysis is part of the Center's research for The Buying of the President 2004 (to be published by HarperCollins), which tracks the financial backers and interests of the major candidates for the White House. Kerry, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, has sponsored or co-sponsored a number of bills favorable...

As Cameron Kerry could learn, it's not easy being the president's brother. Richard Nixon had his embarrassing brother, Donald, who used the Nixon name to get a $200,000 "loan" from Howard Hughes. Jimmy Carter had Billy, who hired out as a lobbyist to Libya, then had Billy Beer named for him before he sobered up. Bill Clinton had cocaine-snorting Roger—although Roger may claim that he, too, was sometimes embarrassed by his brother. Then there's George W. Bush, who has one brother who is the totally reputable governor of Florida. But then there is Neil Bush, who seems too casual about...