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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.

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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 Ass: 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 Ass” 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."

[Bill Levinson]

This stuff should be shipped straight to the Federal Election Commission, by certified mail so it doesn't get "lost."

I sent some of this to Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage. Hopefully they will pick up on it. See http://www.stentorian.com/politics/kerry/moveon.html
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--Bill
http://www.stentorian.com/politics/kerry Growing dossier on John Kerry's lack of character, ethics, and integrity. Free leaflets, Election 2004

[Integrity]

I could be mistaken, but I don't believe there is anything illegal about coordination, etc between the 527's and the DNC. Only Kerry's campaign itself. Small, but technical, distinction.
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"What our enemies have begun, we will finish,"
- President George W. Bush

[rb325th]

Integity, the Kerry Edwards has two former high level people from Moveon.org on his Campaign Staff, one of whom says the other can still stay in touch with Moveon.org, as well as his former campaign manager now working for moveon.org.
Not to mention the connections and level of cooperation between Kerry and Moveon stated above.
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U.S. Army 1983-1995, 11C1P/11H2P NBTDT

[cstrick]

Not sure if they're in the Newsmax article.

Direct Kerry connections to the Media Fund. Basically, the Media Fund's advertising front grom Make America Work For Us, the group that puts out the Haliburton, little girl with the ball and chain, scare senior ads. The Media Fund receives consulting from The Thunder Road Group, provided over $1 million this year.

Bill Kapp was the Director of Advertising for the Media fund, Kerry hired him as his senior advisor.

Jim Jordon is the president of the Thunder Road Group, up until the end of the primaries, Jim Jordon was John Kerry's campaign manager.

Zack Exley was the Director of Special Projects for Moveon.org, he was the one who did the two ads comparing Bush and Hitler. He is now Kerrys Director of Online communication.

Harold Ickles, the founder and president of the Media Fund was Clintons Deputy Chief of Staff.

Cecile Richards is the president of America Votes, America Votes receives funding from the Media Fund and Joint Victory Campaign 2004 (which funds the Media Fund). Cecile Richards was an aide to Nancy Pelosi and daughter of Ann Richards.

The Joint Victory Campaign 2004 which provides funding to both the Media Fund and America Votes, treasurer is Janice Ann Enright. Ms Enright served as a non-attorney Senior Advisor for Government Affairs. At the White House, Ms. Enright was Mr. Ickes' Special Assistant.

It's a spiderweb of direct connections.

[Truegrit]

CNN, a very biased left-leaning news organization, gave plenty of coverage to Michael Moore's Bush-bashing Fahrenheit 911, with next to no criticism of the exaggerations and falsehoods in that movie. Basically CNN helped promote the movie. Nor did CNN try to uncover linkages with the Kerry campaign.

The hypocrisy and double standard of the liberal news media astonishes me. However, I believe in the "fighting heart" -- a saying of a now departed High school teacher from years ago. You need to keep fighting on. If you do, eventually the truth will win out.
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Ted Harwood, Ph.D.
Enlisted, U.S. Army ('57-'60)

[NavyBrat]

What is the Address of the FEC?
How does one file a complaint
with them or does one just 'send the stuff in"
As mentioned?

I'm tired of this uppity snobby,
burn the constitution and blow their
runny noses on the Bill of Rights,
in your face Lefists tudes and their hissy fits.

Time for them to receive their comeuppance.
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Laura~

[hanna]

Did you send it in Navy Brat? And did you see that screen print that was posted here yesterday concerning this issue?

Let us know what you hear.

[NavyBrat]

No, I didn't see the Screen print. What was it?
(am I in trouble??)

Unfortunately, I don't get to read
everything here in the forums
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Laura~

[hanna]

I will look for it....

[Bill Levinson]

[hanna]

There is now a thing on this site...a moveon site, asking people to contribute to the Kerry campaign, there is a letter printed there from John Kerry to moveon members and at the bottom it links to the Kerry website.

http://www.moveon.org/pac/cands/kerry.html

Now can this possibly be legal?

[jrsdad]

[cstrick]

Minyon Moore

Moore’s professional career has included roles in the Clinton White House, DNC, National Rainbow Coalition/DNC Voter Project and numerous presidential campaigns. Prior to her current position at the DNC, Moore served as Assistant to the President of the United States and Director of White House Political Affairs. In this capacity, she served as the principal political adviser to the President, Vice President, First Lady and senior White House staff. Previous to this, she held the position of Assistant to the President and Director of White House Office of Public Liaison, where she served as the Administration’s principal intermediary to non-government organizations and constituencies.

[P. Aaron]