NY Post Richard Johnson's Thursday hit piece on John Kerry

[TheWebHead]

DEMOCRATIC presidential front-runner John Kerry and Richard M. Nixon have something in common - Sen. Kerry's political history is scarred by its own version of Watergate.
During Kerry's 1972 bid for Congress, his younger brother, Cameron Kerry, was arrested for "breaking into . . . the headquarters of a Kerry opponent," the New York Times reported on Sept. 19 of that year. Kerry's headquarters were in the same building in Lowell, Mass.

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Meanwhile, State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer might want to rethink his support for Kerry, considering the records being circulated by Howard Dean's campaign.

Spitzer, who endorsed Kerry earlier this week for the nomination, has crusaded against financial shenanigans on Wall Street. And some of his investigations have targeted the same firms that made big contributions to the Kerry campaign.

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http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix_u.htm

[cindyw]

1. Posting republican papers will win you no friends here.

[TheWebHead]

2. you'd prefer we bury our collective liberal heads in the sand?

[girl gone mad]

4. So..

ignore it and it will go away?

[DenverDem]

5. You have to stay abreast of the memes the wrong wing is floating.

You can't rebut effectively if you aren't prepared.

[La_Serpiente]

3. Here we go again

We discussed this a few weeks ago.

Look, the charges were dropped, and nobody was thrown into jail. The justice system did its work.

[DenverDem]

7. "Here we go again" my ass

this is only the beginning. The rethuglican media will gore the hell out of Special K before November. You better stop rolling your eyes and prepare an airtight rejoinder for each of these misrepresentations and be ready to repeat them a million times because we will have to go through civil war to win this election.

[sandnsea]

14. Pick your battles

This ain't one of them. Don't let them divert your attention off of jobs, taxes, education, health care, vets, war. Those are the battles. Get ready for them.

[MurikanDemocrat]

6. yawn

[bigtree]

8. Attorney General Spitzer says

"With his long record of standing up for all Americans against special interests, John Kerry is the best candidate for President,” said Attorney General Spitzer. “He and I have fought together against the violation of clean air laws and to resolve the mutual fund scandal and other corporate wrongdoings. I know that he will help small investors and consumers. John Kerry has a real plan to end the era of special interests and I am convinced he is the man to take back the White House from President Bush and his corporate allies.”

With investor confidence still rocked by corporate scandals and charges of illegal trading practices, John Kerry has taken aim at the mutual funds scandal and developed a plan to restore ethics, integrity, and honesty to business and government by holding corporate America accountable. His plan will stop unfair trading practices, protect shareholders, and assure that all investors get a fair deal. His three-point plan includes:

Ending Market Timing and Late Trading. John Kerry will put a stop to practices that allow big investors to get deals not available to average investors, curbing late-trading and market-timing abuses by fully prosecuting Wall Street insiders that steal from American investors.

Protecting Shareholders with Independent Oversight and Strong Penalties. John Kerry will develop an independent board to ensure that mutual funds are protecting their shareholders, and increase penalties for defrauding investors. John Kerry will help investors recover their losses by applying racketeering laws to late trading schemes.

Assuring Everyday Investors Pay Fair Fees. Kerry will make sure that mutual funds charge fair fees to all shareholders and disclose any significant relationships with companies that receive contracts.

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0202c.html

[La_Serpiente]

9. OK, here are the threads where we talked about it

have fun

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=195736

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=193939

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=194223

[David Dunham]

10. Cam Kerry Is Now a Leading Lawyer in Boston. He Should sue the Post

[papau]

11. this was a Globe story long ago - without the BS anti-Kerry spin!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=109&topic_id=4982

And "firms that made big contributions" refers to right wing GOP nut Maurice Greenberg's AIG - who made personal small contributions, and whose firm made $30,000 contrib to Kerry's Citizen Soldier Pac that does not fund his own election but which gives money away (albeit to other Dem party folk)

[AnnitaR]

12. Welcome to the Front-runner Fun Kerry!!

Hope you can handle it!

[sandnsea]

13. Kids set up...

by old time politicians. Charges dropped. Childhood foolishness. Makes Kerry even more human.

Not quite like a DUI and drunken brawl with your father.