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Coastie for Truth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 10:25 AM
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A New Target for Advisers to Swift Vets (USA Next)
Edited on Mon Feb-21-05 10:39 AM by Coastie for Truth
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/politics/21social.html?hp&ex=1109048400&en=31aa371bb47479ad&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Quick summary (by appender) - USA Next - who ran the SWifties campaign, is now targeting AARP and AARP's campaign against Social INSecurity Piratization,

    A New Target for Advisers to Swift Vets
    By GLEN JUSTICE

    WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 - Taking its cues from the success of last year's Swift boat veterans' campaign in the presidential race, a conservative lobbying organization has hired some of the same consultants to orchestrate attacks on one of President Bush's toughest opponents in the battle to overhaul Social Security.

    The lobbying group, USA Next, which has poured millions of dollars into Republican policy battles, now says it plans to spend as much as $10 million on commercials and other tactics assailing AARP, the powerhouse lobby opposing the private investment accounts at the center of Mr. Bush's plan.


    USA Next has been portraying AARP as a liberal organization out of step with Republican values, and is now trying to discredit its stance on Social Security. USA Next's campaign has involved appearances by its leaders, including Art Linkletter, its national chairman, on Fox News and various television programs. Its commercials are to be broadcast around the country in coming weeks.


    To USA Next, the battle lines have already been drawn, and it does not shy away from comparisons to the veterans' campaign against Senator Kerry. "It's an honor to be equated with the Swift boat guys," Mr. Jarvis said.
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 10:26 AM
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1. Poor AARP...
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Coastie for Truth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 10:29 AM
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2. Is Charlie Jarvis, the President of USA Next, related to California's
Howard Jarvis of Cooper-Jarvis Prop XIII infamy.
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 10:34 AM
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3. Linkletter

Charlie Jarvis, left, the president of USA Next, with the group's national chairman, Art Linkletter.

Linkletter was on O'Reilly last Friday night, if anyone is tracking his group.
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Coastie for Truth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 10:35 AM
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4. To see the kind of dirt bags Jarvis and USA Next and O'Neill defend
(cover up) - click here--

1. http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBCUTTERS/Point_Welcome.html

2. http://www.aug.edu/~libwrw/ptwelcome/PointWelcome2.html

3. http://www.usni.org/navalhistory/Articles98/NHwells.htm

These scum bags covered up the August 11, 1966 "friendly fire" deaths of Dave Bostrom and Jerry Phillips. It was a screw-up by one of the Swifties for UNTruth that caused the deaths of Dave Bostrom and Jerry Phillips. In the Navy, Marine, Corps, and Coast Guard we call that "Buddy Fxxking".

"The Coastie for Truth tells it like it really was."

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