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

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (44622)	8/23/2004 1:44:41 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 81568

Editors Note: An excerpt from William Rivers Pitt's story yesterday on the Not So Swift Boat Veterans: * Adding to the weight of evidence that the Swift Boat Vets were working fist-in-glove with the Bush campaign, an enterprising blogger named digby revealed that a member of the Swift Boat Vets steering committee, Ken Cordier, was listed on the Bush campaign website as a member of the campaign team until August 19th. His name has since been removed, but as digby points out, you can still see it there if you visit the cached version of the site. We have to ask: If Cordier's name wasn't discovered on the web site, would he still be employed by the Bush campaign? Since his role in the campaign was veterans outreach, was the formation of the Swift Boat Vets part of his campaign duties? Go to Original Bush Supporter Leaves Campaign Over Role in Ad By Reuters Saturday 21 August 2004 CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - A Vietnam veteran who worked with President Bush's campaign has left over his appearance in a commercial by a group challenging Democratic candidate John Kerry's war record, a campaign spokesman said on Saturday. Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said Ken Cordier was a Bush supporter during the 2000 election and served as a member of his steering committee to help reach out to veterans during this election. ``Col. Cordier did not inform the campaign of his involvement in the advertisement being run by (Swift Boat Veterans for Truth),'' Schmidt said. ``Because of his involvement with this 527 (group), Col. Cordier will no longer participate'' in the steering committee. The disclosure of Cordier's involvement came one day after White House spokesman Scott McClellan and Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot denied the campaign coordinated with the group on the ads, which claim that Kerry lied about his Vietnam War service. Kerry has called the ads inaccurate and accused the group of being a front for the Bush campaign. On Friday the Kerry campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission seeking to force the ads' withdrawal. New advertisements by the group are set to debut next week in states where Kerry has touted his military service. Kerry won several medals and his record is often contrasted with Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard during the war. McClellan has refused to specifically condemn the ads and instead has urged Kerry to join Bush in calling for an end to all commercials funded by unrestricted donations. U.S. advocacy groups can collect vast sums of money to run their own political advertisements but are barred from coordinating their activities with campaigns or political parties. ``There seems to be an increasing amount of evidence that the Bush campaign is behind this,'' Kerry campaign spokesman Phil Singer said. ``So it's no surprise that the president refuses to condemn these scurrilous ads.'' The Bush campaign has said Kerry ignores the fact that his backers run attack advertising aimed at the president. Over the last 12 months, groups favoring the Democrats have spent $63.5 million on ads attacking Bush, according to the Bush campaign, which filed its own FEC complaint earlier this year alleging coordination between Kerry and the left-leaning groups.