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20. I've added to Collusion section of Swift-Boat-Vets.-for-Truth file in DU's |
Editorial section. Please check it out and send me links of more such stories. Let's
make the file a good reference source for us: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x70032 IV. SBVT collusion with The Republican Party and/or Bush White House: A schematic showing basic associations (and some contradictions): http://nytimes.com/imagepages/2004/08/19/politics/campaign/20040820_SWIFT_GRAPH.html and <snip> How the group came into existence is a story of how veterans with longstanding anger about Mr. Kerry's antiwar statements in the early 1970's allied themselves with Texas Republicans. <snip> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/20/politics/campaign/20swift.html and: <snip> "A series of interviews and a review of documents show a web of connections to the Bush family, high-profile Texas political figures and President Bush's chief political aide, Karl Rove," the Times reported."Several of those now declaring Mr. Kerry 'unfit' had lavished praise on him, some as recently as last year. <snip> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5771731/ and: <snip> WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Public records reveal that two of the people in the new "Swift Boat Veterans for Bush" television ad are Republican activists . . . . This is just more proof that Bush's Republican allies are the ones behind this disgraceful smear of John Kerry (news -web sites)'s military record. It's pretty clear what's going on here. It's no wonder the Bush campaign refuses to condemn this smear. <snip> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=669&ncid=669&e=2&u=/usnw/20040820/pl_usnw/more_republican_ties_revealed_behind__swift_boat_vets_for_bush___says_kerry_campaign141_xml and: <snip> Mr. Bush's campaign confirmed on Saturday . . . that one of the veteran in that advertisement (SBV ad #1) was a member (of) the Bush campaign's veterans' advisory committee. <snip> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/22/politics/campaign/22swift.html DU's Mayberry Machiavelli pointed out in a post: Ken Cordier was on Bush campaign staff right up until his appearance in the second Swift Boat commercial, proving that Bush campaign denials of connection with the smear campaign are disingenuous (long word for "lies"): http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/21/edwards.swift... And Benjamin Ginsberg, the national counsel for Bush's re-election campaign had to resign due to connections with SBVT: <snip> The Washington Post revealed today that a top attorney to the Bush campaign, Benjamin Ginsberg, has been advising the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. <snip> http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000511.html and: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6067942 and: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5818634 Now the main SBVT backer, Robert Perry, is co-hosting Rove next week at a county fundraiser! (Additionally, Rove claims not to have spoken with Perry in a year. Ain't life grand!) <snip> . . . the Dallas Morning News yesterday reported that the man bankrolling the smear ads is hosting President Bush's top political adviser at a fundraiser in New York during the Republican National Convention. Robert Perry, the top Bush-Cheney fundraiser who is financing the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads, "is listed as the co-host" of an event whose guest list includes Karl Rove on September 1 <snip> http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df08252004.html and from the Dallas Morning News: <snip> Invitations to the Harris County reception and fund-raiser Sept. 1 at Tavern on the Green name Mr. Perry as an event sponsor, and those on the invitation list include former President George Bush, presidential adviser Karl Rove and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. <snip> http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/registration/register.jsp?fw=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/washington/stories/082404dnpolfundraiser.5ae2b.html Yet another conflict of interest, as DUs BurtWorm has it: SBVT Treasurer Administers GOP FEC Compliance Firm. Her name is Susan Artceneaux <snip> Political Compliance Services Inc. is a consulting company based in Fairfax, VA. On its website, it describes itself as "an accounting services vendor specializing in FEC regulations. Our comprehensive approach to your individual accounting needs will deliver you from the headaches and legal ramifications of FEC non-compliance." Its website says that it "serves the following political organizations": Candidate Committees Separate Segregated Funds Non-Connected PACs Party Committees In May 2004, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth paid $7500 to Political Compliance Services for what is described on its IRS form 8872 as "Compliance Consulting". Despite this, in August 2004 three campaign finance watchdog groups filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission arguing that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were in breach of restrictions applying to 527 committees On its website, Political Compliance Services boasts that: "Our consultants and analysts are career experts in campaign and PAC accounting, finance, administration and compliance." <11> However, it appears shy of disclosing who exactly those consultants are. No information is given on the site regarding who works for the company. Fortunately, its entry in the WHOIS database is more informative. It lists Susan Arceneaux as the administrative contact for the company. . . . Susan Arceneaux is also the treasurer of The Majority Leader's Fund, a PAC affiliated with the former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas <13>. Interestingly, the Majority Leader's Fund has been a client of Political Compliance Services <14>. Arceneaux is also listed as the contact person for the recently-formed right-wing PAC FreedomWorks, on its IRS form 8872 for the first quarter of 2004 <15>. <snip> http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x69684 We may get to know much more very soon since Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has filed a Freedom of Information Act request investigating links between the WH and the SBV for Truth group: <snip> (Melanie) Sloan (CREW's exec. director) decided to send the FOIA after reading that, upon being asked whether she had worked with White House officials, SBVT public relations coordinator Merrie Spaeth said "The answer is 'no' unless you refresh my memory." (NYT 8/20/04). Sloan said that she was also skeptical of Bush political advisor Karl Rove's claim that he has not spoken with his friend and large Republican donor Bob Perry in over a year. The FOIA was sent, said Sloan, "to gather the information Ms. Spaeth, Karl Rove and others may need to have their memories refreshed as to whether or not SBVT illegally coordinated with the White House." <snip> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=669&ncid=669&e=1&u=/usnw/20040824/pl_usnw/crew_foias_white_house_contacts_with_swift_boat_veterans_group137_xml Du's own Skinner (!) is doing a state-by-state search for collusion between local and state Republican committees and the SBVTs in terms of rallies, links and ads on web-sites and selling of SBVT materials, incl. Unfit for Command. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=649597&mesg_id=649597 such as . . . <snip> "Bush Campaign Caught Promoting "Swift Boat Vets for Truth" While National Campaign Denies Coordination, Campaign in Florida Promotes Rally Tallahassee -- On the same day that the Bush-Cheney campaign repeatedly denied coordinating attacks with the anti-Kerry group "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," the Bush-Cheney campaign in Florida was caught promoting a rally in Gainesville for the group <snip> http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_08_15_atrios_archive.html#109303885084378264 Example of Bush campaign rally in collusion with SBVT: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4439188,00.html and DU's fine posts and members . . . on the job with cameras!! Wow! Check it out: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x657176 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x646015 http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040821/LOCAL/40821006/1078/news&template=printart And the Official Minnesota Republican Website links the SBV ad: <snip> Webpage "Prepared and Paid for by Republican Party of Minnesota" Found to Be Linking to the Swift Boat Ads. In Minnesota . . . an official Republican Party webpage was recently found to be linking to the Swift Boat Ads. The webpage goes on to . . . question . . . John Kerry's service in Vietnam: SWIFT VETS ARE GETTING TO KERRY; DID HE LIE ABOUT HIS SERVICE, repeatedly, in an effort to embellish it? DID HE TAKE CREDIT for engagements fought by other men . . .? The website also contains a link to purchase the book produced by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, "Unfit For Command". <snip> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=669&ncid=669&e=1&u=/usnw/20040823/pl_usnw/kerry_edwards__reports_detail_even_closer_ties_to_bush_campaign__no_wonder_bush_won_t_condemn_this_smear_his_campaign_is_behind Or even the right-wing affiliations (O'Neill with Charles Colson in the Nixon WH) of those making the charges as these: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x647917 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=647199&mesg_id=647199 http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_9865.shtml The similarity between the attack on Kerry and the attacks on other Bush opponents, including McCain, as well as those who've opposed Karl Rove's candidates, suggests on-going and systematic collusion: <snip> "It's amazing how similar this type of attack is to the pattern of attacks I have seen over two decades -- in some cases involving Bush's campaigns, in other cases they involved campaigns in which Karl Rove was a participant,'' said Wayne Slater, senior political writer at the Dallas Morning News, who has covered Bush since his early days in Texas politics and is author of the book "Bush's Brain,'' about Rove. "In every case, the approach is the same: You have a surrogate group of allies, independent of the Bush campaign, raising questions not about the opponent's weakness but directly about the opponent's strength,'' Slater said. "In every case it works." <snip> http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/24/SWIFT.TMP |
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