Wednesday, October 20, 2004
More Republican fraud
The Signs that read Kerry/Specter are fakes, thanks to Roger Stone.
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The Signs that read Kerry/Specter are fakes, thanks to Roger Stone.
The mystery of the John Kerry-Arlen Specter lawn signs in Northeast Philadelphia is solved.
They're indeed the work of national Republican consultant Roger Stone, who has worked with Specter in the past. Specter campaign manager Christopher Nicholas said yesterday that he called Stone last weekend and asked him to put an end to the campaign.
"I made the call Saturday morning," Nicholas said. "We asked him to stop and he agreed."
Nicholas said that Specter opposes independent advocacy organizations - so-called 527 groups - and that the campaign knew nothing of the controversial signs until it got calls from the media. Nicholas said he learned of Stone's involvement from the Daily News.
The signs appeared in Northeast Philadelphia about a week ago, apparently linking Specter, Pennsylvania's Republican incumbent U.S. senator, with Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee.
The signs read "Kerry & Specter for Working Families."
A notation on the signs said they were paid for by the Philadelphia Education Project, a political group registered three weeks ago to Carla Bartz, a woman associated with Republican attacks in a Florida election, and Gary Parenti, a Democratic operative from New York with ties to Stone.
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