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Sept. 13 issue - John Kerry wanted to hit back. It had been a miserable August as he took incoming fire about his military service from a gang of hostile Vietnam vets. But no, campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill and other staffers argued, the Swift Boat ads would blow over. Finally, Kerry had had enough. For three or four days, as he campaigned across the country, Kerry ripped into Cahill, furious that the mostly baseless attacks on his valor were driving his numbers down. "He was very angry," one old friend says. "The calculation had been made that this wasn't...

It'll never happen, but at some point over the next 48 hours or so, President Bush [related, bio] really ought to publicly acknowledge and thank the one group most responsible for making the Bush dynasty possible. Namely, the Massachusetts Democratic Party. Let's face it, without Michael Dukakis and John Kerry [related, bio], there wouldn't have been one, let alone three, Bush administrations. These two ACLU crybabies from the Bay State go down in history as the Laurel and Hardy of American politics, human sacrifices who to this day can't figure out why Americans didn't want to vote for Ivy League...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, under pressure to bring new focus to his campaign, added a veteran political strategist to his travelling campaign entourage, rounding out changes to his senior staff. Democratic National Committee General Election Manager John Sasso will become the senior campaign staffer aboard the Kerry campaign plane, a key role in the final weeks leading up to the election as the campaign. Sasso's résumé includes a stint managing the failed 1988 presidential campaign of Michael Dukakis.[snip]These changes come on the heels of the addition of several former top Clinton administration staffers to the Kerry...

The man tapped by Sen. John Kerry to enforce loyalty at the Democratic National Committee had to resign in disgrace from Michael Dukakis' 1988 presidential campaign, after revealing that then-Dukakis presidential rival Sen. Joe Biden was a plagiarist. John Sasso, who managed the failed Dukakis campaign, has been installed as Kerry's key man at the DNC, the New York Post reported Friday, in a bid to keep an eye on Clinton loyalist, DNC chair Terry McAuliffe. "[Sasso] is totally loyal to Kerry," the Post's source said. But what the Post didn't say was that the top Kerry aide was forced...

Popular Denver Radio Host Dies KOA's Ken Sasso Succumbs To Congestive Heart Failure POSTED: 3:04 pm MST March 25, 2004 UPDATED: 4:03 pm MST March 25, 2004 DENVER -- KOA Radio talk show host Ken Sasso has died. Ken Sasso Sasso died of congestive heart failure at a Colorado Springs hospital Wednesday night at the age of 57. KOA issued a statement following his death that said, "Ken was a masterful talk show host. He could take any topic and use his wit and humor to make it entertaining and informative. We will remember Ken as a kind, humorous, insightful...