NewsMax Uncovers Kerry's Ties to Anti-Bush Groups
Chuck Noe, NewsMax.com
Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2004
Even as Sen. John Kerry and his cheerleaders in Big Media try to
associate President Bush with the modestly funded Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth, they remain silent about the links Kerry and the Democrat party have
to multimillion-dollar Bush-hating groups. But they cannot keep concealing
these ties, because NewsMax has uncovered multiple examples.
Thanks in part to tips from readers nationwide who are outraged about the
blatant bias of the media establishment, we have found the following:
From Democrats.org, a Web site of the Democratic National Committee, May 9,
2003:
"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. On
Wednesday, May 14, join us by calling and emailing your representatives in
Congress to let them know that the majority of Americans oppose more
irresponsible tax cuts that go overwhelmingly to the wealthiest sliver of
Americans."
"In their own words, DNC coordination with MoveOn.org," noted a reader from
Florence, S.C., one of several who sent this tip.
http://www.democrats.org/wvc/weekinreview/200305120002.html
From the same Web site's unironically named "Kicking *****: Daily Dispatches
from the DNC," here's the ultimate in hypocrisy last Nov. 13 from one of
Vermont's more extreme ideologues:
"Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee,
took a short break from the 30-hour Republican hypocrisy-a-thon to come and
see the results of the DNC's petition drive. We collected more than 310,000
signatures and comments from Americans who stand with Senate Democrats in
the fight to keep ultraconservative ideologues off the federal bench."
An accompanying photo has this caption: "DNC Chief Operating Officer Josh
Wachs (left), Senator Leahy, and Zack Exley from Moveon.org pose with the
more than 310,000 signatures."
http://www.democrats.org/blog/display/00010183.html
In its push to obstruct judges who follow the U.S. Constitution, DNC
admitted elsewhere on its site that same day, "The DNC is also conducting a
major petition drive in partnership with MoveOn.org. More than 310,000
Americans have signed the petition to protect our courts - with more than
172,000 of those signatures coming in the past 36 hours."
http://www.democrats.org/news/200311140002.html
And here's DNC's "Kicking *****" item from Jan. 31:
Catch the Moveon ad during the Super Bowl
Here's a message from Moveon.org:
This Sunday, during the Super Bowl half time show, join us in changing
channels on CBS. At 8:10pm and 8:35pm EST, switch over to CNN to watch
"Child's Pay" on a channel which doesn't censor its ads. We'd like to keep a
tally of the number of people who participate - you can sign up here.
Posted by DNC Research
http://www.democrats.org/blog/comment/00010377.html
MoveOn's Web site admitted Aug. 9, "We're running a contest to help us
choose the ads that will best convince undecided and swing voters to vote
for John Kerry."
http://www.moveon.org/pac/news/best-ad.html
The same site still posts a "letter to MoveOn members from John Kerry,"
dated June 17, 2003. "Make no mistake, we need to take back the White House
in 2004 and that's why I'm running for President," Kerry writes.
http://www.moveon.org/pac/cands/kerry.html
A posting on "the official Kerry-Edwards blog" last Dec. 11 includes this
boast from one Fe Bongolan of Berkeley, Calif.:
"The East Bay for Kerry/MoveOn House party on December 7th combined the
forces of two grass-roots organizations based in San Francisco East Bay
Area. We had 200 guests eating, drinking, and watching the MoveOn
Documentary 'Uncovered' featuring Joseph Wilson and Rand Beers from the
Kerry campaign.
"When Teresa Heinz-Kerry arrived, she handed me a pin that read in the
center: 'Asses of Evil' with 'Bush', 'Cheney', 'Rumsfeld' and 'Ashcroft'
surrounding it. She met, greeted and talked to a jam-packed room of Kerry
supporters and others who came for the MoveOn documentary. .
"Thanks to Teresa, we kept the party going on, and she helped us here at
East Bay for Kerry, throw the Mother of All House Parties."
http://blog.johnkerry.com/blog/archives/000871.html
From the liberal Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Sam Kaplan, one of Kerry's
biggest and earliest fundraisers in Minnesota, said he plans to continue
raising money working with Americans [sic] Coming Together." (Hint to the
Star Tribune: That pro-Kerry group calls itself America Coming Together.)
The reader from St. Louis Park, Minn., who sent this tip pointed out, "This
is a more direct, admitted coordination link than anything asserted in the
New York Times."
As NewsMax.com reported Sunday, Kerry refuses to fire Zach Exley, a campaign
staffer who was a director for MoveOn.org.
And, of course, Jim Jordan, formerly Kerry's campaign manager, continues his
work at the pro-Kerry Media Fund.
Although the Times and its countless imitators have for days made Kerry's
latest attacks on Bush and Swift Boats Veterans for Truth their lead story,
note that they didn't offer similar publicity when Bush's campaign and the
Republican National Committee on March 31 accused Kerry's campaign of
illegal coordination with anti-Bush groups.
"Senator Kerry, who supported the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act, is
now the beneficiary of the single largest conspiracy to violate
campaign-finance laws in history," RNC Chief Counsel Jill Holtzman Vogel
said at the time.
Kerry's adviser Michael Meehan claimed at the time: "This frivolous
complaint is not worth the paper it is written on. John Kerry and his
campaign have nothing to do with these ads or the groups that run them."
But as NewsMax has now proven, DNC's own Web site and Kerry himself disprove
that assertion. The chief question that remains is how the Times and the
rest of the media establishment can continue to ignore the Democrat deceit.
Instead of doing research into Kerry's questionable ties, the Times today
was content again to parrot his latest attack ad as one of the lead stories
on its Web site: "Kerry TV Ad Pins Veterans' Attack Firmly on Bush."
Yet the Times did not run a lead headline when Steve Schmidt, a spokesman
for Bush-Cheney '04, neatly summed up the Democrats' desperate tactics on
Friday:
"Real coordination is what John Kerry's campaign has been engaged in with
the Media Fund, America Coming Together, and MoveOn.org. The revolving door
of personnel, coordinated strategies and overlapping fundraising between the
Democrat 527s and the Kerry campaign is a flagrant disregard of the spirit
and letter of the campaign finance reform law."
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