Hmmm. Gee...Which way does a progressive turn?
Smash-mouth, real-world Democrats fighting for human
decency and common sense or effete turncoats who
couldn't even win the nomination of their own party
and are accepting money from the "vast reich-wing
conspiracy"? Throw your lives, fortunes and sacred
honor in with Mary Beth Cahill instead of
the-shell-of-a-man-formerly-known-as-Peter Camejo...
Mary Beth Cahill, Kerry Campaign Manager: We also
wanted to wish you a happy anniversary. As we are sure
you and the attorneys representing the President,
Vice-President and other White House officials are
aware, today marks one year since Administration
sources leaked the identity of a covert CIA agent to
Bob Novak in an effort to retaliate against a critic
of the Administration.In light of the fact that the
Administration began gutting the laws protecting the
nation’s forests yesterday, we hope you will accept
the paper on which this letter is written as an
anniversary gift. (The one year anniversary is known
as the “paper anniversary.”)
Cleanse the White House of the Chickenhawk Coup and
Its War-Profiteering Cronies, Show Up for Democracy in
2004: Defeat Bush (again!)
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0713b.html
Kerry Campaign Urges BC04 to Release Documents Relating to Bush’s Performance in Office
July 13, 2004
For Immediate Release
Washington, DC
Kerry-Edwards campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill today
sent the following letter to Bush Cheney ’04 Campaign
Manager Ken Mehlman in response to a letter Mehlman
sent yesterday:
Ken Mehlman
Campaign Manager
BUSH-CHENEY '04, Inc.
P.O. BOX 10648
Arlington, VA 22210
"Dear Ken:
Over the past several months, allies of the President
have questioned John Kerry’s patriotism while your
staff has criticized his service in Vietnam.
Republicans and their allies have gone so far as to
launch attacks against his wife and your campaign has
run $80 million in negative ads that have been called
baseless, misleading and unfair by several independent
observers.
Considering that the President has failed to even come
close to keeping his promise to change the tone in
Washington, we find your outrage over and
paparazzi-like obsession with a fund-raising event to
be misplaced. The fact is that the nation has a
greater interest in seeing several documents made
public relating to the President’s performance in
office and personal veracity that the White House has
steadfastly refused to release. As such, we will not
consider your request until the Bush campaign and
White House make public the documents/materials listed
below:
Military records: Any copies of the President’s
military records that would actually prove he
fulfilled the terms of his military service. For that
matter, it would be comforting to the American people
if the campaign or the White House could produce more
than just a single person to verify that the President
was in Alabama when said he was there. Many Americans
find it odd that only one person out of an entire
squadron can recall seeing Mr. Bush.
Halliburton: All correspondence between the Defense
Department and the White House regarding the no-bid
contracts that have gone to the Vice-President’s
former company. Some material has already been made
public. Why not take a campaign issue off the table by
making all of these materials public so the voters can
see how Halliburton has benefited from Mr. Cheney
serving as Vice-President?
The Cheney Energy Task Force: For an Administration
that claims to hate lawsuits, it’s ironic that the
Bush White House is taking up the Courts’ time to keep
the fact that Ken Lay and Enron wrote its energy
policy in secret behind closed doors. Please release
the documents so that the country can learn what
lobbyists and special interests wrote the White House
energy policy.
Medicare Bill: Please release all White House
correspondence between the pharmaceutical industry and
the Administration regarding the Medicare Bill, which
gave billions to some of the President’s biggest
donors. In addition, please provide all written
materials that directed the Medicare actuary to
withhold information from Congress about the actual
cost of the bill.
Prison Abuse Documents: A few weeks ago, the White
House released a selected number of documents
regarding the White House’s involvement in laying the
legal foundation for the interrogation methods that
were used in Iraq. Please release the remaining
documents.
We also wanted to wish you a happy anniversary. As we
are sure you and the attorneys representing the
President, Vice-President and other White House
officials are aware, today marks one year since
Administration sources leaked the identity of a covert
CIA agent to Bob Novak in an effort to retaliate
against a critic of the Administration.
In light of the fact that the Administration began
gutting the laws protecting the nation’s forests
yesterday, we hope you will accept the paper on which
this letter is written as an anniversary gift. (The
one year anniversary is known as the “paper
anniversary.”)
Sincerely,
Mary Beth Cahill
Campaign Manager"