Here's what Zell said about Kerry in 2001

[wiggs]

Part of longer speech by Zell in March 2001, from a mass email I receive (sorry if dupe...didn't see elsewhere):

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"My job tonight is an easy one: to present to you one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders - and a good friend.

He was once a lieutenant governor - but he didn't stay in that office 16 years, like someone else I know. It just took two years before the people of Massachusetts moved him into the United States Senate in 1984.

In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington.

Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so.

John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment. Business Week magazine named him one of the top pro-technology legislators and made him a member of its "Digital Dozen."

John was re-elected in 1990 and again in 1996 - when he defeated popular Republican Governor William Weld in the most closely watched Senate race in the country.

John is a graduate of Yale University and was a gunboat officer in the Navy. He received a Silver Star, Bronze Star and three awards of the Purple Heart for combat duty in Vietnam. He later co-founded the Vietnam Veterans of America."

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The time for the Kerry camp to put Zell's previous statement out there is NOW. Why this wasn't shown by "journalists" on all the post-speech analysis is beyond me. Seems pertinent. I would have thought Kerry surrogates would have been reading this on the air BEFORE the convention. In any case, add this to the SBV folks who, before this election cycle, also praised Kerry but now spend all their time trying to denigrate him and you can easily show a pattern of about-faces for political or financial gain.

[underpants]

1. Spit Ball Veteran for Truth

:bounce:

[Trajan]

2. IS there SOMEONE from the Kerry Campaign who reads DU ?? ...

ANYONE from that campaign who can heed THIS call?: GET THIS OUT THERE NOW .....

Thank You ...

[Killarney]

3. anyone have a link for this? i'd love to send it around. thanks.

[wiggs]

5. sort of

I sent the text to Media Matters, TPM, Franken, and Randi. I received the text from someone who sends out mass emails every day....no hard link, but his email is

[e-mail]

[wiggs]

7. here

Turns out Truthout distributed it today. The original link can be found there.

www.truthout.org/docs_04/090304Y.shtml

[chelsea0011]

4. "It's a metafa. You know what a metafa is"?

In four more years Zell from Hell will be doing the nomination speech for Alan Keyes and the newly revived Whig Party.

[Merlin]

6. Wach it! You jes mite git challunged to a DOOOOOOLLLLLLLL! n/t

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