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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The former chairman of the Republican National Committee says that new immigration reform efforts will give his a party a chance to soften its tone on the issue. Ed Gillespie said Tuesday the GOP should present itself as anti-illegal immigration but not anti-immigrant in the debate. Gillespie said he thinks some of the party's harshest voices were the loudest the last time Congress debated immigration reform. Gillespie, who also served as counselor to former President George W. Bush, said Republicans need to do a better job of reaching out to minorities.

After losing Virginia's governorship for the first time in eight years, some Democrats are trying to console themselves that Virginia is at its core a "red" state. This ignores not only that they won back-to-back governorships but also that Democrats defeated a sitting senator in 2006, took control of the state Senate in 2007 and won an open Republican Senate seat and three House seats in 2008 while carrying Virginia's electoral college votes for the first time since 1964. Some in the White House are trying to deflect blame for the defeat by saying that Sen. Creigh Deeds lost because...

Lessons from Virginia for the GOP By Ed Gillespie Thursday, November 5, 2009 After losing Virginia's governorship for the first time in eight years, some Democrats are trying to console themselves that Virginia is at its core a "red" state. This ignores not only that they won back-to-back governorships but also that Democrats defeated a sitting senator in 2006, took control of the state Senate in 2007 and won an open Republican Senate seat and three House seats in 2008 while carrying Virginia's electoral college votes for the first time since 1964. Some in the White House are trying to...

Over the past few months, a steady stream of journalists from mainstream-media outlets — at least eight, led by Time Washington-bureau chief Jay Carney — have abandoned journalism for positions in the Obama administration or with congressional Democrats. Fortunately for them, the difficult transition from objective reporting to ardent advocacy of a party’s agenda was made easier by the head start they got in last year’s campaign. Though there have long been concerns about liberal bias in the media, 2008 was the year the referees took off their striped shirts and donned a team’s jersey. Some say it’s a shift...

For Immediate Release: February 13, 2009 Contact: Phil Cox phil.cox@bobmcdonnell.com (804) 612.9111 McDonnell Announces Ed Gillespie to Serve as General Chairman of his Gubernatorial Campaign - Former RNC Chairman; A Principal Drafter of "Contract with America"; Former Counselor to the President- Richmond- Attorney General Bob McDonnell announced today that Ed Gillespie, former Chairman of the Republican National Committee and former Counselor to the President of the United States, will serve as General Chairman of his campaign for Governor. In announcing Gillespie's leadership position McDonnell noted, "Ed has a record of winning tough campaigns and helping to develop and enact policies...

The Talk Shows Sunday, January 18th, 2009 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Robert Gibbs, Obama's choice for press secretary.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Rahm Emanuel, Obama's choice for chief of staff.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Lawrence Summers, Obama's choice for director of the National Economic Council.THIS WEEK (ABC): David Axelrod, senior adviser to President-elect Barack Obama.LATE EDITION (CNN) : President-elect Barack Obama; Axelrod; Dana Perino, press secretary to President George W. Bush; Bush White House counselor Ed Gillespie.

Ed Gillespie, gaggling to reporters today in Saudi Arabia, said that the White House really meant to Get Carter, not Obama: "We did not anticipate that it would be taken that way, because its kind of hard to take it that way when you look at the actual words. ... There was some anticipation that someone might say you know its an expression of rebuke to former President Carter for having met with Hamas. that was something that was anticipated but no one wrote about it or raised it."

Watchdog groups say ties between a new White House aide and his former lobbying clients, including foreign governments, cast doubt on his ability to serve the American public. The White House announced yesterday it had tapped Ed Gillespie, a high-powered GOP operative and lobbyist, to serve as counselor to the president, replacing Dan Bartlett who recently resigned. But critics say Gillespie comes with strings attached, mostly to clients of his prospering lobbying firm Quinn Gillespie, which he co-founded in 2000 with former Clinton White House aide Jack Quinn. The firm retains active accounts to represent a Dubai-owned aerospace firm as...

President Bush formerly received the Report On The Virginia Tech Tragedy today in the Oval Office. Read the full report here The president spoke live via satellite to the Southern Baptist Convention in San Antonio, Texas: “I thank you for your Christian witness, I thank you for your defense of religious liberty, and I appreciate your many good works that make our nation a stronger and more hopeful place. See, every day Southern Baptists are giving back to their communities and ministering to those in need. And you made our nation stronger as a result.” (Transcript) And this afternoon, President...

Former Republican national chairman Ed Gillespie has emerged as a potential replacement to Dan Bartlett as counselor to President Bush, friends say. Questioned about the prospect Saturday night at a fundraising dinner for the Virginia GOP, which he now chairs, Gillespie said he was “flattered at the notion.” “It’s not for me to rule it in or out,” he added. “You’ll have to ask the president.” Gillespie, a veteran GOP operative, now splits his time between a Washington lobbying practice and his role in Virginia as the leader of a party seeking to climb its way back after a succession...

Ed Gillespie Joins George Allen’s Team The chances that Virginia Senator George Allen will be a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008 took a leap forward with the announcement that former GOP National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie is taking on the job of treasurer of Allen’s Political Action Committee (PAC). According to Outside the Beltway, Allen lured Gillespie into taking on the key treasurer job several months ago when the then-treasurer resigned. While Gillespie was receptive, he was reluctant to make a commitment at the time because he was helping the White House get John Roberts' Supreme Court...

Ed Gillespie was called "President Bush's pit bull" during the 2004 presidential campaign, when as chairman of the Republican National Committee he seemed to live on cable television trading snarls with Terry McAuliffe, his attack dog of a counterpart at the Democratic National Committee. So Mr. Gillespie, 43, might seem a strange choice to manage the expected fight in the Senate over who will replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, since the job will include delivering moderate Democratic votes for whomever Mr. Bush selects as a Supreme Court nominee. But Republicans said that White House officials turned to Mr. Gillespie as...

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee is gearing up to end judicial filibusters, joining forces with professional Republican image-makers and prominent Christian organizations comparing Democrats to racial segregationists of the 1960s. Under pressure from within the GOP's conservative political base to counter Democratic PR successes in the fight over the filibuster, Frist is bringing on former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie to help refine the GOP's message. In addition - and in spite of misgivings from some prominent Republicans about picking a fight over the filibuster - Frist has agreed to appear with prominent Christian conservatives...

Karl Rove - The Architect," a documentary on PBS tonight, spins a story of astounding stupidity out of a career it insists is among the most influential in American politics. This is unpardonable. To hint at so much intrigue without dramatizing any of it - by hardly offering evidence - is a dereliction of duty; it suggests that even the most tendentious account of Mr. Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, as a redeemer or a rascal might have done his story greater justice. In harmony with dark synthesizer chords, the narrator speaks in haunted tones about Mr. Rove's "40-year...

Our nation united behind President Bush on Election Day because of his resolve in winning the War on Terror, his record of growing our economy and because he was the first President in recent history to campaign for a second term with a clear vision for the future. Your dedication to President Bush's agenda enabled him to establish a mandate by receiving more votes than any presidential candidate in American history, and he has already begun delivering on his plans for making America safer, stronger and better. The President campaigned on reforming our nation's intelligence gathering, and the House of...

For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary November 3, 2004 President Bush Thanks Americans in Wed. Acceptance Speech Remarks by the President in Acceptance Speech The Ronald Reagan Building Washington, D.C. 3:08 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thank you all for coming. We had a long night -- and a great night. (Applause.) The voters turned out in record numbers and delivered an historic victory. (Applause.) Earlier today, Senator Kerry called with his congratulations. We had a really good phone call, he was very gracious. Senator Kerry waged a spirited campaign, and he and his supporters...

Ed Gillespie was on Laura Ingraham just before the top of the hour and said the following (paraphrased): "It's my understanding that 60 Minutes is working on a new October Surprise story since they missed the explosives story. Your audience should be prepared for this. Don't worry, we'll be out there Monday on the talk shows to respond." Any ideas what he's talking about?

...In Republican circles, election-time complaints about the mainstream media are a time-honored tradition. Back in 1992, as Mr. Bush's father was going down to defeat, Republican leaders charged the press with pro-Clinton bias. Four years later, Republican nominee Bob Dole accused reporters of not devoting enough attention to President Clinton's ethics troubles. "Where's the outrage?" he asked. "Where's the media?" The Kerry campaign has raised other complaints. Kerry aides loudly protested after Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. ordered its television affiliates to run a program that, among other things, questioned whether Mr. Kerry's antiwar activities during the Vietnam War conflict harmed...

Dear [E-mail recipients name], It's October, but it's no surprise. Remember last week, when I highlighted a quote by Newsweek editor Evan Thomas that the media's desire to see John Kerry elected may be worth five-to-twenty million votes, and urged you to be on the look-out for evidence of that desire in articles and news programs? Well, yesterday the front page of New York Times featured a flawed article asserting, "The Iraqi interim government has warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives — used to demolish buildings, make missile warheads and...

WASHINGTON -- RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie made the following statement today regarding a Democrat Party manual showing illegal coordination between the Kerry Campaign, the Florida Democrat Party and Democrat 527 shadow groups. Click here to read the manual. "Most people would be shocked to learn that the Florida Democrat Party has spent almost no dollars on federal election activity in the important battleground state of Florida.

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Chairman Gillespie Statement on DNC/Kerry Campaign Document Instructing Democrats to Make Up Charges of Voter Intimidation (titled edited for length)   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson 202-863-8614Washington, D.C. - RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie issued the following statement today regarding a Kerry/DNC campaign document that instructs Democrats to make up charges of voter intimidation even if no signs or evidence of voter intimidation actually exist. “This document proves the Kerry Campaign and the DNC are more interested in scaring minority voters than in working to reach out to them on Election Day, even if it means completely making things up....

TRENTON - .....Gillespie got his first taste of campaigning by working on his mother's successful nonpartisan bid to become the first woman elected to the local school board. During his senior year at Pemberton Township High School in 1979, Gillespie launched his own political career as president of the student council. Then, in college at Catholic University, he got a rather unusual start in Washington politics - as a Senate parking attendant. On Gillespie's 22nd birthday, he started a job running a district office for then-Florida Rep. Andy Ireland - a Democrat. In 1984, Ireland changed parties to run on...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson (202) 863-8614 WASHINGTON – Chairman Ed Gillespie made the following statement today:“Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski’s deeming as “immoral” John Kerry’s insult of Poland’s sacrifice in Iraq once again exposes the fallacy of the senator’s claim that he would be able to convince other countries to replace our troops in Iraq with theirs. President Krasniewski has been resolute in understanding the importance of achieving victory in Iraq, unlike Senator Kerry, who has vacillated with every shifting political wind.”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson 202-863-8614Washington DC – Chairman Gillespie made the following comments during today’s RNC conference call: “Many questions still remain. Was a crime committed? I believe so. Obviously, forgery is involved. But the Texas Legal Code also says it is a third degree felony if one ‘makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with knowledge of its falsity and with intent that it be taken as a genuine governmental record’ or ‘makes, presents, or uses a governmental record with knowledge of its falsity.’ “Did the Kerry campaign know about the existence of the...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson 202-863-8614Thanks everyone for coming. I am proud to announce that the RNC has met and exceeded our goal of registering 3 million new voters in this cycle. As of today we have registered 3,047,073 voters. The President is attracting new voters and has historic levels of support from Republicans around the country. We are expanding our party and building coalitions that will lead us to victory in November. Last week in Monroe, Louisiana, I welcomed Rep. Rodney Alexander to the Republican Party. He became the 200th elected Democrat to switch parties since President George...

Michels' margin of victory brings national GOP backing Nominee already trading barbs with Feingold National Republican leaders were making tentative promises Wednesday to provide Tim Michels with new resources and support, a day after the construction executive and former Army officer from Oconomowoc captured the party's U.S. Senate nomination by storm. Michels' primary victory sets up a November showdown of crystal-clear contrast with two-term Democratic incumbent Sen. Russ Feingold. "This is a race of national significance. That's why I'm here today," said Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, standing beside Michels and two of his fallen challengers at...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson202-863-8614Washington, DC—Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie today announced that Bush Cheney National Spokesman Terry Holt will join the staff of the Republican National Committee as Senior Advisor to the Chairman beginning this week. “I’m excited to have Terry joining our efforts here at the RNC as we make our final push to Election Day. Terry will assist with message development and communications as we work to deliver our message in the last 56 days of this election. We’re grateful Terry has agreed to return to the RNC for a second tour of duty after...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 - Just last week, Stanley Greenberg was the polling mastermind guiding the way three liberal groups spent tens of millions of dollars attacking President Bush and registering voters. But he quit that position to be an unpaid adviser to the Kerry campaign as it presses to sharpen its message in the final 56 days before the election. Mr. Greenberg is just the latest in a procession of top strategists who have moved between the campaigns and advocacy groups called 527's - the very organizations that are not supposed to coordinate their activities under campaign finance rules. The...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson202-863-8614Washington, DC—The former Clinton staffers riding to the rescue of the floundering Kerry campaign this week were earning a living coordinating attack ads against the President at MoveOn.Org and other groups just last week. Stanley Greenberg has worked for MoveOn.org, the Media Fund, and America Coming Together. Howard Wolfson and Joe Lockhart have worked for the Glover Park Group, a company that created attack ads about the Patriot Act for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, a 501(c) 3 group. “We’ve seen Kerry’s former campaign manager go to work for 527s. We’ve seen a MoveOn.org...

To: Congressional Leadership, RNC Leadership & Members of Congress From: Ed Gillespie Subject: Kerry Campaign as Inside Joke Responding to the fact that Senator Kerry missed 76% of the of the Senate Intelligence Committee's public hearings, his campaign’s senior adviser called the statistic “misleading” because it represents only public hearings and not the numerous non-public hearings the committee holds. So surely Senator Kerry will authorize the Senate Intelligence Committee to make public his and his running mate’s record of attendance at non-public hearings, right? Don’t bet on it. Their campaign thinks they can cite non-public hearings as discounting a dismal public attendance...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson(202)-863-8614 Washington, DC—“John Kerry and his surrogates have a mounting credibility problem on the issue of homeland security and protecting America from terror threats. “John Kerry said weeks ago that ‘the threat of terror is exaggerated,’ and Kerry surrogate Howard Dean said yesterday that he thinks President Bush plays the terrorism ‘trump card.’ “John Kerry can’t articulate a consistent or credible message to the American people on the threat of terror--one week it’s exaggerated, one week, it’s the President’s ‘trump card’ and one week it’s John Kerry’s campaign message of the week. John Kerry does...

Boston- Below is a transcript of today’s 10:30 a.m. Republican press conference. (Due to technical difficulties, the transcript starts during Lt. Gov. Healey’s remarks.) Transcript:LT. GOV. KERRY HEALEY (MA): ... the Democrats have misrepresented the President’s record just as they have tried to obscure the Senator’s record on so many important issues. In speech after speech we have heard nothing about Senator Kerry’s votes on the issues. We’ve heard nothing about his votes to raise taxes on social security that will hurt our elders. We’ve heard nothing about his votes to raise taxes on small businesses. We have heard nothing...

TO: Interested Parties FR: Marc Racicot, Chairman, Bush-Cheney '04 Ed Gillespie, Chairman, Republican National Committee DT: 7/29/04 RE: Preview of John Kerry's Acceptance Speech After 18 months on the campaign trail and more than $100 million in paid advertising, John Kerry's chief objective this evening will be to introduce himself to Americans. Again. We can expect John Kerry to deliver a well-crafted speech that pleases Democrats and attempts a pivot to more moderate rhetoric designed to appeal to independent voters. If his convention meets the historical standard for moving a challenger campaign in the polls, the Kerry-Edwards ticket will...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lindsay Taylor/Mark Pfeifle202-863-8614/212-356-2300 Washington, DC - Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie today announced the addition of Anne Phelps and Ginny Wolfe to the 2004 Republican Platform Committee staff. Phelps will serve as Executive Director and Wolfe as Communications Director for the 2004 Republican Platform to be chaired by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D. (TN), Congresswoman Melissa Hart (PA) and Colorado Governor Bill Owens. "We are fortunate to have such talented people join us as the 2004 Platform Committee works to craft a proposal that reflects the president's goals and the beliefs of our party,"...

GILLESPIE SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHTChairman Ed Gillespie on CBS' "Face The Nation"________________________________________________CBS' BOB SCHIEFFER: And both of our combatants are in the studio with us this morning. On the right Ed Gillespie. On my left Terry McAuliffe. Let's start with you Mr. Gillespie. The Democrats are going to hold their convention next week. And their theme is going to be "Stronger At Home, Respected In The World." After three-and-a-half years, do you believe that this country is stronger at home and respected in the world, because obviously that's not what the Democrats mean?RNC CHAIRMAN ED GILLESPIE: Well I do. And...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson202-863-8614 Washington, DC—“For more than a year, Joe Wilson led Democrats to make allegations against the President that have now been proven false. Senator Kerry embraced and repeated these false charges and continues to post them on his campaign website. “Perhaps he is as proud of his repudiated national steering committee member who has been exposed as a liar as he is of his vote against funding our troops in the field.”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson202-863-8614 Washington, DC—RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie made the following statement today after it was revealed that MoveOn.org is still posting a video comparing the President to Adolf Hitler on its website. “Last week we saw Hollywood entertainers call the President a ‘killer’ and a ‘cheap thug’ while John Kerry looked on smiling. Now, six months after it was first discovered, MoveOn.org still refuses to acknowledge that it is wrong to compare the President to Adolf Hitler by removing this reprehensible ad from their website. “John Kerry has a responsibility to release the tape of his...

Remarks As PreparedPortland, OregonThank you for inviting me to be with you this evening.There’s a lot at stake in this election. This presidential election presents the clearest choices we’ve seen in 20 years—since Ronald Reagan ran for re-election against Walter Mondale in 1984. And today, like then, American’s standard of living is on the rise. In the past year: Disposable personal income is higher now than in 2000, when President Bush took office; More Americans own a home today than at any point in our history; Household wealth is at its highest level in American history; American investments are now...

Dear FReeper,Many Republican State Party Chairs sent the following letter to their Democratic counterparts today:America Coming Together (ACT) has claimed to reach over 2 million targeted households in their efforts to register Democratic voters to defeat President George W. Bush. This week in Arkansas the Kerry campaign hired a senior member of the ACT team to lead their stateefforts. Recently in Ohio the state Democratic Party declared that ACT will run the ground game for them.Furthermore, today's Kansas City Star reports that Charlene Davis, director of the Jackson County election board, said "many of the voter registration forms ACT workers...

Remarks As PreparedWest Virginia State ConventionBeckley, West Virginia It’s great to be here in Beckley. This is an exciting time in West Virginia: Republicans are challenging every federal, state and legislative office on the November ballot. I want to thank Kris Warner for doing an outstanding job as Chairman. This is an important election and West Virginia is a critically important state for us—the races we win here will help us expand our majorities in the U.S. House and Senate and retain the White House in November! It all starts right here in Beckley. I know the people of West...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson202-863-8614 Washington, DC—RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie issued the following comment on George Soros’ statement today that he “does not equate the abuse in Abu Ghraib with the terror attacks of September 11.” "John Kerry forgot he voted for the Patriot Act and No Child Left Behind. Al Gore forgot he was Vice President when Osama Bin Laden declared war on the United States five separate times and when terrorists killed Americans. Now George Soros can't remember what he said yesterday," said RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie. A transcript of Soros’ comments yesterday and audio of his...

Something to Yak About – Kerry Backers UnhingedJust when you think John Kerry’s core supporters can’t get any wackier, they do. At the left wing confab called the Take Back America Conference, billionaire lefty George Soros compared the Iraqi prisoner abuse controversy with the terrorist attacks of 9/11! “The picture of torture in Saddam's prison was a moment of truth for us," Soros said at Thursday’s TBA session in Washington, DC. "I think that those pictures hit us the same way as the terrorist attack itself.” ‘Outrageous’ Soros Comments Blasted by RNC Chief Upon hearing the remarks of George Soros...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson202-863-8614 Washington, DC-RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie issued the following statement in response to comments made today by John Kerry supporter George Soros comparing prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison to the terror attacks on 9-11. “Abu Ghraib was bad and the soldiers involved are rightly being punished, but for Democrats to say that the abuse of Iraqi fighters is the moral equivalent of the slaughter of 3,000 innocent Americans is outrageous. Their hatred of the President is fueling a blame America first mentality that is troubling.”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson202-863-8614 Washington, DC-"Unfortunately for angry Democrats like Tim Johnson, Nancy Pelosi and Ted Kennedy, terrorists aren't responsible for the deaths of U.S. soldiers, their commander-in-chief is. Thanks to the President's strong and principled leadership, the Taliban is on the run and women in Afghanistan are now able to attend school, hold jobs and participate as full citizens of their country. "We can only assume that Tom Daschle and Stephanie Herseth's silence on this issue means they agree with Senator Johnson. If they do not they should repudiate these comments immediately. This kind of political hate...

Joint Statement by Bush-Cheney Campaign Chairman Marc Racicot and RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie on Today’s FEC Ruling on 527 Groups (title edited for length)  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson202-863-8614 “The FEC’s decision today to do nothing to stop the massive spending of soft money “527” committees to influence the 2004 elections is unfortunate, but provides clarity. “It has always been clear to us that the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (“BCRA”) and its subsequent affirmation by the Supreme Court would limit the role of political parties in the political process and allow special interest “527” groups to proliferate. We had...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson202-863-8614 Washington, DC—RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie made the following statement today on a conference call with reporters regarding the politicization of the Iraqi prisoner issue by Democrats. “The day before Senator Kerry stated publicly that the prison abuses at Abu Ghraib constituted ‘a moment for America to try to deal with this without partisan politics’ (CNN.com 5/10/2004) his campaign engaged in a mass e-mail campaign attacking the President politically and initiating a petition drive in support of Kerry’s call for Secretary Rumsfeld to resign-along with a ‘DONATE NOW!’ appeal for campaign contributions. “Senator Kerry also...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nicole Guillemard202-863-8614 WASHINGTON – The Republican National Committee joins Hispanics in celebrating Cinco de Mayo as “Reggie the Registration Rig” continues to register new voters in the Southwest.“Today, we honor the courage and sacrifice of General Ignacio Zaragoza and the small army of soldiers who fought against incredible odds for liberty, opportunity, and hope, and triumphed at the Battle of Puebla in 1862,” said RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie. Cinco de Mayo has become an integral part of American society and culture.” “On this fifth day of May, we recognize the invaluable contributions Mexican Americans have made...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson202-863-8614 Washington, DC—It was revealed yesterday that the bus leased by the Kerry campaign for his ‘Real Deal Express’ bus tour was made in Canada. “It appears John Kerry was for Canadian buses before he was against them. Or maybe his campaign didn't lease the Canadian bus. Maybe his campaign's family leased it,” Gillespie said.

To: RNC Members, House & Senate Leadership, Republican MOC From: Ed Gillespie Subject: The Cherry Tree This week Vice President Cheney examined John Kerry’s Senate record of opposition to weapon systems critical in the War on Terror. Democrats defend Sen. Kerry by suggesting Republicans are “cherry picking” votes from the Senator's long career to portray him as weak on national security. Senator Kerry says using specific votes from his long career somehow distorts his approach to national defense and intelligence. While Senator Kerry's rationale has evolved over his four terms, his record is clear. Senator Kerry recently voted against $87...