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Flashback (April 7, 2004)Kerry Campaign Hires MoveOn Director Zach Exley, the director of special projects for the MoveOn PAC, is going to the Kerry campaign to become its director of online communications and organization. MoveOn is 527 group behind attack ads on Bush.

Exposed: Scandal of double voters With debate over the 2000 election still raging, thousands of people illegally register in both New York City and Florida, which could swing an election. By RUSS BUETTNERDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER With debate over the 2000 election still raging, thousands of people illegally register in both New York City and Florida, which could swing an election. Some 46,000 New Yorkers are registered to vote in both the city and Florida, a shocking finding that exposes both states to potential abuses that could alter the outcome of elections, a Daily News investigation shows. Registering in...

Dear MoveOn Members, Three words sum up why we need to take action today: The Supreme Court. I need you to join me in keeping the Supreme Court out of the hands of right wing ideologues. I am prepared to filibuster, if necessary, any Supreme Court nominee who would turn back the clock on a woman’s right to choose, on civil rights and individual liberties, and on the laws protecting workers and the environment. If you agree with me that there should be no equivocation, no double-speak, no avoidance of the issue, then sign my online petition today at: http://petition.johnkerry.com...

Boston, MA, Jul. 29 (UPI) -- Third-party anti-Bush groups -- Democrats' financial benefactors -- tiptoed a careful line during the Democratic National Convention in Boston, skirting any inkling of the coordination forbidden by campaign-finance regulations. Several 527 organizations, so-called because of their designation with the Internal Revenue Service, wined and dined donors alongside Democratic and Kerry campaign officials at top-dollar hotels in Boston. America Coming Together and the Media Fund, two of the largest 527 organizations, held a news briefing early in the week at the Four Seasons, the same hotel where top party donors were picking up their special...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former POW resigned as a volunteer to President Bush's re-election campaign Saturday after it was learned that he appeared in an anti-John Kerry ad sponsored by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The Bush campaign has claimed no connection with the group which has led an attack on Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, questioning his war record in Vietnam and criticizing his testimony at a congressional hearing in 1971 in which Kerry alleged U.S. troops committed atrocities. Retired Air Force Col. Ken Cordier, resigned as a member of the Bush campaign's veterans' steering committee after it...

Presidential candidate John Kerry can count on the support of at least one group of Vietnam Veterans – and they're still in Vietnam. Following Kerry's denunciation of the ad by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, criticizing him for exaggerating his war record, a group of former U.S. soldiers gathered in Hanoi to express their support for Kerry and to call President Bush a "draft dodger" for his service in the Texas Air National Guard during the war. And they were selling T-shirts to tourists to raise money for Kerry's campaign. The $5 shirts sport a picture of President Bush with...

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY--oops!-- ACKNOWLEDGES 527 COLLUSIONthx to DallasMike for this find The Democratic Party is partnering with MoveOn.org, People for the American Way, Campaign for America's Future, and dozens of other groups representing millions of Americans to organize a massive public mobilization. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WOMEN'S VOTE CENTERCopyright © 1995-2004 DNC Services Corporation Paid for by the Democratic National Committee 430 S. Capitol St. SE, Washington DC 20003.     YOO-HOO! followthemoney.org. . .over HERE! The Left's Fatally Flawed "Animal Farm" Mentality(Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President) WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA by Mia...

The Kerry campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission that alleged the group behind the ad was illegally coordinating its efforts with the Bush-Cheney campaign. It cited "recent press reports" and the group's own statements. The Bush campaign denied the allegation. Campaigns often file complaints with the FEC, but the agency rarely intervenes quickly enough to alter the course of a race. Kerry campaign spokesperson Stephanie Cutter sought to turn the argument over presidential readiness back on the White House. "Mr. McClellan needs to understand that John Kerry is not the type of leader who will sit and...

SPARTANBURG, SC (Talon News) -- Liberal political action group MoveOn.org, which has stepped up their efforts on behalf of likely Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry in recent weeks, is urging Kerry in a petition to "go big" by aggressively campaigning for president on an overtly liberal agenda. MoveOn.org believes that President George W. Bush is vulnerable because of some recent polls that show his approval ratings have dropped. They assert in an e-mail sent to supporters on Monday that Kerry has two options about how to conduct his campaign through November. "[Kerry] has to decide whether, as some consultants...

Berkeley, CA - PipeLIneNews - Evidence continues to mount detailing the degree to which the hard left socialist dominated, anti-Bush street thug movement, has been taken under the wing of the John Kerry campaign. One would think that associating with groups which are essentially Stalinist in their perspective would be be of concern to the junior Senator from Massachusetts as he tries to flip-flop his way to the political middle, but apparently that is not the case. Psssssssst, lefties...we have moles everywhere! Dear MoveOn member, In the wake of revelations of torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners, John Kerry has...

WASHINGTON -- A strategist with MoveOn.org, a group that Republicans accuse of being too closely tied to Democrat John F. Kerry's presidential campaign, is leaving to work for Kerry. Zack Exley will be the Kerry campaign's director of online communications and organizing. He was the MoveOn political action committee's special projects director, focusing on research and mobilizing MoveOn supporters, Eli Pariser, the PAC's executive director, said yesterday.

CNSNews.com) - The campaign of Democrat John F. Kerry has hired a new director of online communications -- and the new guy comes from MoveOn.org, the anti-Bush group that Republicans view as a shadow Kerry campaign. In fact, the Republican Party recently filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, accusing the Kerry campaign of illegally coordinating its political advertising and other campaign activities with groups such as MoveOn.org. The Kerry campaign denied coordinating anything with those groups, which use "soft" (unlimited) donations to pay for anti-Bush ads. But Republicans say Democrats are violating the new campaign finance law --...

MoveOn.org- Campaign Finance Law Violation? I received an e-mail from MoveOn.org describing a unique fund-raising campaign by MoveOn's Section 527 organization to fund ads opposing the re-election of President Bush. This in itself seemed a little sketchy to me, considering the solicitation came through MoveOn's normal 501(c) mailing list. I'm not sure if that's a violation, though. Here's what gets me, the campaign claimed that if I contributed, my contribution would be matched if I was in the first $300,000 of contributions. The wording was slightly confusing, so I asked MoveOn whether this meant they would receive a $300,000 contribution...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MON DEC 15, 2003 17:00:05 ET XXXXX CAMPAIGN CASH RACE TURNS INTERNATIONAL; MOVEON.ORG CENTER OF INTRIGUE; CLARK SEEKS CANADIAN SUPPORT, WEBSITE SHOWS **Exclusive** Frustrated with the lack of domestic support, left-leaning website MoveOn.org has apparently been reaching beyond American borders to generate cash revenue over the internet! The provocative international fundraising strategy threatens to embroil the presidential candidacies of General Wesley Clark and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean. Both men are named on international fundraising websites suggesting donations to MoveOn.org. MORE Meanwhile, MoveOn.org, which has been running ads critical of the Bush Administration, has named an...

Tell the Federal Election Commission to STOP MoveOn's Illegal Ad Campaign From Newsday:A Democratic-leaning online group will run television commercials in 17 presidential battleground states starting Thursday to counter President Bush's multimillion-dollar advertising blitz that will begin the same day. The MoveOn.org Voter Fund has been airing commercials assailing Bush for months in several swing states, but this $1.9 million, five-day effort will be its most far-reaching. The ads will ensure that there is a Democratic presence on the TV airwaves in key states as Bush begins to make his case for re-election.This is illegal and violates a recent FEC advisory...

Carl Cameron reporting Zack Exley (sp?) of MoveOn.Org has been hired by the Kerry campaign to work on their internet stuff. Republicans protesting, which of course is being ignored.

CALGARY (CP) - U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites)'s campaign veered north into Canada on Tuesday as his sister appealed to expatriate Americans to register for their absentee ballots. With all expectations of a tight election fight this November, the Democrats are looking everywhere for votes, Diana Kerry said during a stop in Calgary. "We do know that there's going to be battlegrounds in lots of places and we're fighting on every front," said Kerry, who chairs a group called Americans Overseas for Kerry. While there are no official numbers, estimates suggest there are upwards of 400,000...

Protesters have been targeting government and corporate websites for years. But when online activists strike at Republican domains during the G.O.P.'s convention later this month, the digital demonstrations might turn out to be more than symbolic, for once. In the past, activists have been able to shut down the website of, say, the World Economic Forum for a few hours. But the impact of such a takedown was nebulous at best: It's hard to argue the organization really suffered from a few-hour lag in posting its press releases online. In this year's presidential race, however, campaign websites have moved beyond...

http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/ Explaining quick polls and exit polls Now I understand a little better what Carter and Gaviria said. Let me explain. You vote in an electronic machine. At the end of the day the machine has a total that is transcribed and then transmitted to the CNE. There were three exit polls performed and there were various quick polls performed. In an exit poll you ask voters how they voted. In the quick poll you check that the total at the machine level is the same registered at the CNE after transmission. What the Carter Center did was quick polls...