Group Running Anti-Kerry Ads Denies Ties to Republican Party
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John Hurley, the national director of Veterans for Kerry, called the Swift boat veterans group "a Republican smear campaign."
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A conservative anti-tax group Wednesday expanded its ad campaign against Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, helped by a major GOP donor who bankrolled ads that questioned Democrat John Kerry's war record during the 2004 campaign.
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BOSTON - John Kerry fought back Thursday against campaign allegations that he exaggerated his combat record in Vietnam, accusing President Bush of using a Republican front group "to do his dirty work" and challenging Bush to debate their wartime service records.   "Well, if he wants to have a debate about our service in Vietnam, here is my answer: Bring it on," said the Democratic presidential candidate, reviving an old war and campaign slogan amid strong urging from party leaders for him to respond to two-week-old GOP assertions...
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Republicans on Thursday tried to turn a controversial anti-war newspaper ad against Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama after neither voted to condemn it.
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John O&#39;Neill, a member of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, said in an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal that his group will continue to criticize Democratic presidential candidate
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John Kerry offers his service in Vietnam as proof that he can keep America safe. But in two TV ads and a best-selling book, an anti-Kerry group has accused the Senator of dishonesty and cowardice during the war.
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The Republican donor who helped bankroll the Swift Boat attacks on Democratic Sen. John Kerry's war record has given $5 million to a new group targeting Democratic candidates.
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The Democratic Party and 18 senators are objecting to a broadcasting company's plan to air on 62 TV stations a critical documentary about John Kerry's anti-war activities after he returned home from Vietnam three decades ago.
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By Mark Knoller. By Dotty Lynch. (CBS/AP) The Kerry campaign filed a complaint Friday with the Federal Election Commission alleging that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group behind
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Democrats on Wednesday charged that the national Republican party was linked to a group accused of trying to stop Democrats from registering to vote in at least two Western battleground states, Nevada and Oregon.
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The Bush campaign said late yesterday that it dismissed an adviser on veterans issues after learning that he is part of an independent group that has been running anti-Kerry ads.
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John Kerryâs campaign accused Republicans of trying to frighten voters about a terrorist attack being more likely if the Democrat is elected.
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The ad blames President Bush for a campaign by a "front group" of veterans that Senator John Kerry said had smeared his Vietnam record.
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Three campaign finance watchdog groups filed a complaint Tuesday accusing a group of Vietnam veterans of violating the campaign finance law by airing an ad that challenges Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's military record.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has requested that the Federal Election Commission force Republican groups to withdraw ads attacking his military service record.
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Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry&#39;s campaign spokesmen yesterday denied that there&#39;s a &quot;shake-up&quot; of the campaign, despite the infusion of new Democratic blood
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FORT MYERS, Fla./CRAWFORD, Texas  - Democrat John  Kerry asked the Federal Election Commission on Friday to force  a group accused of collaborating with the Bush campaign to  withdraw ads challenging his service in Vietnam as the  presidential race took a decidedly bitter turn.