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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (973)	2/6/2004 8:07:44 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 81568

John Kerry’s Special Interest Hypocrisy Feb 5, 2004, 18:52 HALLOWELL -- Massachusetts Senator John Kerry’s tendency to flip flop on issues was detailed once again this morning in a report by the Associated Press. On the campaign trail Kerry says he is not beholden to special interests. However, the report shows that Kerry assisted a contractor from whom he took large donations and money for trips. “John Kerry’s rhetoric doesn’t match up with the facts,” said Peter Cianchette, Maine BC-04 State Chair. “Contributors with direct interests before him have flown him on trips and lined the pockets of his campaign. John Kerry is demonstrating the ultimate hypocrisy by campaigning on something that contradicts his record.” As detailed in the AP report, Kerry blocked an effort to rein in the $15 billion Big Dig highway project in Massachusetts and interceded on behalf of insurer American International Group (AIG) so that they could funnel $130 million in excess government payments into private investments. Despite Kerry's claims that special interests haven't influenced him, AIG subsequently paid some of his travel expenses, and AIG executives have maxed out donations to his campaign fund. In 2002, AIG gave $30,000 to Kerry's unlimited soft money fund for his presidential run. In addition, other “Big Dig” contractors contributed at least $60,000 in soft money to Kerry’s 527 Citizen Soldier PAC. (Political Money Line Website, www.tray.com Accessed 2/4/04) In 2001, Kerry even warned his Senate colleagues of very thing he did on “Big Dig.” In March 2001, he said that “When somebody sitting on a particular committee has to go out and raise money from people who have business before that committee, or when someone in the Senate has to ask got money from people who have legislative interests in front of them on which they will vote, there is almost an automatic cloud.” (Charles Lewis And The Center For Public Integrity, The Buying Of The Presidency 2004, 2004, pp. 364-365) “John Kerry has repeatedly shown that he will say one thing and then do another. This is not leadership, and it is definitely not what voters in Maine want,” concluded Cianchette magic-city-news.com