Ex-Rep. Feighan chairs group running ads to discredit Dean

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Ex-Rep. Feighan chairs group running ads to discredit Dean

12/16/03

Stephen Koff
Plain Dealer Bureau Chief


Washington- Ed Feighan, the former Cleveland-area congressman who left Washington during the House banking scandal, is involved in politics - and controversy - again.

A Democrat from Lakewood, he is chairing a secretive campaign to slow the momentum of presidential candidate Howard Dean by running negative ads in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Feighan and his group won't say who's behind the ads.

One ad shows terrorist Osama bin Laden and suggests that Dean, a former Vermont governor, lacks the military and foreign-policy experience to "face the dangers ahead."

Other ads appear intended to question Dean's record as a progressive, noting that he, like President Bush, got "top grades" from the National Rifle Association and, like Bush, embraced the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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[KoKo]

1. Look at Feighan's Connections! Unbelievable. Where is he coming from

with this kind of bio?
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http://38.113.97.196/websites/Health/default.asp?ID=3
Former Congressman Edward Feighan is the President of Americans for Jobs, Health Care & Progressive Values. He is also currently the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of ProCentury Corporation, the parent of the Century Insurance Group based in Columbus, Ohio. The Century Insurance Group is a specialty-lines insurer, writing commercial property/casualty insurance for niche markets nationwide, operating in 49 States and has annual gross premiums of approximately $175 million. Mr. Feighan has served as member of the board of directors of ProCentury since October, 2000.
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Mr. Feighan is also a founding partner of American Foreign Capital Partners (AFCAP). Maintaining offices in Cleveland, Ohio and St. Petersburg, Russia, AFCAP represents several multi-national businesses in the former Soviet Union. From 1998 until Mr. Feighan joined the senior management of Century Insurance Group, he served as the Managing Partner of Alliance Financial, Limited, a Cleveland, Ohio-based firm specializing in mergers, acquisitions and merchant banking services.