From the American Spectator:
In fact, according to a Kerry campaign volunteer, staff members and volunteers of the Kerry campaign in New York, Washington, and Los Angeles have been in almost constant contact with MoveOn.org staffers, including advanced viewing and reviews of MoveOn.org television commercials, online ads, and web content. As well, MoveOn.org staffers provided the Kerry campaign with opposition research within the past two months, as well as advance looks at speeches made by MoveOn.org speakers, including former Vice President Al Gore.This is the counter-argument for the nonsense coming out from the mimes at Kerry/Edwards about their black helicopter conspiracy theory involving Bush/Cheney and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
"We're always running into those guys," says a Kerry campaign volunteer in Washington, about MoveOn.org staffers. "We socialize with them, we see them at meetings, we can't avoid it. And of course we talk about the campaign. In some cities, we get our volunteers from MoveOn. No one has ever raised an issue about it."
In some cases, it isn't just volunteers that the Kerry campaign is getting from MoveOn.org. They are hiring them too. In April, the Kerry campaign hired MoveOn's special projects and research director Jack Exley to oversee Kerry's campaign's website. At the time, the Kerry campaign made a point of saying that Exley was joining the campaign with not a single scrap of paper or computer disk from his time with MoveOn.
But Exley didn't need to bring much. According to another Kerry adviser, there were already so many back-channel relationships between the two organizations, Exley's presence to foster more was unnecessary. "As soon as it was clear Kerry had the nomination, we began coordinating. It's all done through the DNC and the AFL-CIO, which is financing many of the other groups out there running anti-Republican advertising. We will sit on conference calls, but we won't take part. We just take notes, then confer with our folks inside the DNC. That's the way it's done."
The out and out ARROGANCE of these people is just amazing. THIS should be THE issue in the coming weeks. It won't be because the mainstream press is too partisan to care about, you know, objective journalism and integrity.
Hat Tip
Kitty at KerryHaters had the link for this one.
Mark's Remarks
This is in patent violation to the campaign finance laws. However, you do not hear the media carping on about how Kerry's people are flouting the law. No, instead let's raise the spectre of conspiracy on a group of decorated veterans who decided to exercise their rights to free speech (shame on them, don't they know only liberals have that right! The sheer gall to think the Constitution applies to them, I mean, they are babykillers, right Mr. Kerry?)and to attack them for having the same contributors as GW Bush. Hmmm.....what about George Soros and all of the 87% of 527s that are liberal, eh? What about carousing together and being in constant contact? The laws in question say no personal contact or coordination with a candidate and one of these groups.... Mr. Kerry's campaign flouts the law and the media does nothing. However, if you speak out against Mr. Kerry, you must be violating campaign finance laws. Let the liberals win, and this will be codified...Welcome to the liberal vision for America: Stalinist Society.
