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  • Swift Boat Member Skips Rally Over Fliers at Bush Campaign Office

    08/22/2004 12:28:40 PM PDT · by kristinn · 46 replies · 1,797+ views
    Monterey Herald ^ | Sunday, August 22, 2004 | Via AP
    GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A member of a group that has run ads attacking John Kerry's Vietnam War record pulled out of an anti-Kerry rally over the weekend after learning that it was promoted at the local headquarters for President Bush's campaign. Joe Ponder, wounded during the war in 1968 and now a member of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, said he backed out of the Saturday speaking engagement after learning that fliers promoting the event had been distributed Friday at Alachua County Republican headquarters, which houses the local Bush-Cheney campaign. "I had the assurance that the party and the Bush-Cheney...