Arkansas outrage over "vicious" material, voter reg. forms mailed from RNC

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Publication:Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Date: 04 September 2004 ; Section:Arkansas; Page:13

Daniels: Mailers not from his office

BY MICHAEL R. WICKLINE ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE

Secretary of State Charlie Daniels wants to make clear that he has nothing to do with some mailed material that includes a voter-registration application and a preprinted address to send the application to his office. (Daniels is a Democrat. The mailing has a return address for the Republican National Committee.)

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The material says: "Not far from where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center once stood...They dishonored the country’s highest office with words like ‘killer’ and ‘another cheap thug who sacrifices our young.’...

At their $7.5 million fundraiser in New York, Liberal Democrats said those hateful, vicious things ... then they said they represent ‘real American values,’ the ‘heart and soul of our country.’ Don’t let the Liberals speak for you. Register to vote."...

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(Janet Miller, deputy secretary of state for elections and public affairs) said an e-mail from one man illustrates the tone of the complaints. It said that the man was disappointed that Daniels’ office "would allow a voter registration form to go out attached with such biased information....I received this hateful, vicious form through the Republican National Committee ... and was very dismayed. Does this mean that your office is endorsing this?"...

(The article quotes Fred Short of North Little Rock, who served with John Kerry in Vietnam, as saying the mailing reflects "the same Taliban logic that I keep hearing. People say, 'If you don’t agree with me, you’re not an American. If you’re not a Republican, you’re not an American. You can’t be a Democrat and be a soldier.'")

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