Posted on 11/06/2004 5:14:19 AM PST by Founding Father
This is running in tomorrow's Philadelphia Daily News. It is a joint effort of Campaign Extra! and ace Daily News reporter Dave Davies (who's also the substitute host of NPR's "Fresh Air.") We wanted to get this online before the weekend officially starts: Lurking behind those mysterious John Kerry-Arlen Specter yard signs in Northeast Philadelphia is yet another spectre: Notorious national GOP consultant Roger Stone.
A political operative with some ties to Stone told the Daily News last night that the consultant — who chaired Pennsylvania GOP senator Specter’s abortive 1996 presidential bid — had been actively recruiting people to join a group called the Philadelphia Education Project. The group’s lawyer - who contacted the Daily News yesterday — is another political operative named Paul Rolf Jensen, who has worked with Stone on several campaigns. Jensen is also known for his efforts to file lawsuits against gay and gay-friendly Presbyterian ministers. The treasurer and assistant treasurer of the committee — a so-called 527 advocacy group — both have connections to candidates also closely linked to the Florida-based Stone. Efforts to contact Stone, whose phone numbers are not listed, were not successful last night.
The 52-year-old GOP stalwart was in the headlines most recently to deny widespread rumors that he was behind the likely forged memos about President Bush’s National Guard service aired by CBS News. Stone, who started in politics as a youthful aide to Richard Nixon, has also been tied to a 2000 melee in Miami that disrupted the Florida recount. (Web only: Stone also has a somewhat interesting personal history.) The yard signs have been slammed by the campaign of Specter’s Democratic rival, Joe Hoeffel, as a trick aimed at the city’s overwhelmingly Democratic ticket. Kerry has campaigned with Hoeffel in his visits to Philadelphia. Specter’s campaign again insisted last night it had no knowledge of either the Kerry-Specter yard signs or any campaign role for Stone.
In 1995, Stone chaired a presidential bid by Specter, who dropped out before the 1996 primary season. “Everything I know is from you guys [reporters],” said Specter campaign manager Christopher Nicholas. Jensen, the lawyer for the Philadelphia Education Project, said in an e-mail to the Daily News last night, that its activities and those of California-based assistant treasurer Carla Bartz, are not “‘shadowy’ or improper under the law.’ He said it is no different from liberal committees funded by billionaire George Soros. “It is the committee's position that Senator Kerry and Senator Specter have both supported policies that are beneficial to working families including expanded stem cell research, health care reform, tax reduction for the middle class and raising the minimum wage,” wrote Jensen.
A New York state Democratic operative said he was contacted by Roger Stone several weeks ago and asked to participate in a political commitee Stone was forming, which would support both Kerry and Specter. The operative declined the offer. The Democratic source said committee treasurer Gary Parenti, who has worked for former Erie County Democratic chairman Steve Pigeon, got to know Stone two years ago when they both worked on the gubernatorial campaign of Tom Golisano. Stone hosted a fundraiser for Specter in Buffalo last year, the source said. Parenti and Stone also worked on Rev. Al Sharpton's presidential campaign earlier this year -- a bizarre turn of events that some saw as a plot to disrupt the Democratic Party. Jensen, the Philadelphia committee lawyer, donated $250 to Sharpton's campaign. Parenti did not return repeated phone calls this week.
“It is the committee's position that Senator Kerry and Senator Specter have both supported policies that are beneficial to working families ..."
Just what we need--defeat Kerry then put his soulmate in as chairman of the judiciary committee.
Thank God that Specter didn't keep his big mouth shut. Open mouth, insert foot.
If only we could do some party switching. We had success while Clinton was in office. Our RINO'S for their conservatives.
How about we trade Snarlin' Arlen for Evan Bayh?
We must also contact the conservative media in addition to the politicians. They both feed off of the other.
Keep up the pressure...we will hit critical mass if we keep pushing.
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Won't happen. Evan Bayh loves the Democratic Party and is extremely popular. If the Rats were smart they'd make him their leader.
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