Film `exposes' Kerry's '72 loss (brother broke into Dem rival's office)

[papau]

http://news.bostonherald.com/election2004/view.bg?articleid=35559



All the senator's men, coming to a theater near you: Film `exposes' Kerry's '72 loss
By Elisabeth J. Beardsley Wednesday, July 14, 2004

A rich booster of President Bush will unveil a documentary about Democrat John F. Kerry days before his convention coronation - sparking cries of ``political shenanigans'' over its focus on Kerry's sole campaign defeat 32 years ago.

Three days before the Democratic National Convention's kickoff, more than 200 political and media glitterati are expected at the premiere of ``Eclipsed by the Sun: The Political Education of John Kerry ,'' which details Kerry's 1972 congressional loss and the role of news coverage by The Sun of Lowell in his demise.

Democrats are alarmed the film by Christopher Egan - who has raised more than $200,000 for Bush - aims to create a Watergate-style frenzy over a 32-year-old scandal in which Kerry's brother, Cameron, and an aide were arrested for breaking into a rival's campaign headquarters. <snip>

Egan, son of top Republican fund-raiser and former ambassador to Ireland Richard Egan, said the 28-minute film is no hatchet job, but rather a timely tale of Kerry's struggle with a skeptical blue-collar community and an onslaught by an arch-conservative newspaper. <snip>

Egan said he paid for the film out of his own pocket, but would not say how much it cost - noting he's negotiating with local and national networks to air the film during the next three weeks.

[shoelace414]

1. what about Rove's

planting a bug in his own office?

[Ganja Ninja]

2. I can't find much on this story other than Cameron Kerry pleaded

not guilty on the charge. Is there anything (from a reputable source) as to the outcome of the charge?

[papau]

4. The Lowell Sun has it in its archives

He was quilty of being in the office at night with a friend when he should not have been.

But it was shown Kerry had to fore-knowledge of the plan (indeed as I recall the brother did it on the spur of the moment).

In anycase the GOPer Lowell Sun hated - and still hates - Kerry, so they'd be the place to get data if Google does not bring it up.

[JohnKleeb]

3. and Bush was snorting coke at that time and fleeing the national guard

Would be nice if they focused on the actual issues instead of just saying John Kerry is out of the mainstream and out of touch with American values, I personally would like Kerry to that ad Franken recommends in lying liars, you know the pirate one.

[Ganja Ninja]

10. Bush's brother Neil has admitted to having sex with prostitutes ...

in his recent divorce. So I guess we can say that makes GWB guilty as well. After all that's the Boston Herald's implication here. Whatever someone's brother does is a direct reflection on them.

[JohnKleeb]

11. precisely

Werent those whores underaged too. Of course if we brought that up, we would be insulting the president, and thats bad, well if a republican does it to a democrat, its not only ok but the right thing to do, but if a dem does it to a republican, its unpatriotic and the democratic party should be ashamed of themselves. Republican logic gotta love it.

[emulatorloo]

5. Memo to Boston Herald: Americans don't have Coronations

So I am sorry, I don't see much need to read beyond your first sentence.

[Zorra]

6. Probably just a college kid prank. Cameron Kerry was about 21 or

22 yrs. old at the time, I believe.

[JohnKleeb]

12. yeah Cam is John's younger brother by about 7-8 years

which makes Cam my dad's age, and this was 72 so yeah Cam was 21-22.

[flpoljunkie]

7. Bush has NO record to run on, his campaign has spent $80M+ on negative ads

This is more of the same pathetic campaign from George "I'm a Uniter, not a Divider" Bush. They grow yet more desperate every day.

[mzmolly]

8. I was waiting for this to come to light. Time to dig up the Bush Abortion

scandal from that same year.

:shrug:

[Zorra]

9. Found an article. The charges were dropped.

First campaign ends in defeat
By Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff, 6/18/2003
snip-----
Kerry's brother today declines to elaborate on the circumstances surrounding the arrests and the charges, which were dropped a year later.

"It was an impulsive, rash thing that we did and that John Kerry ended up having to deal with," said Cam Kerry, now a partner at the Boston law firm of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo. "That's all we're going to say on that one."

Vallely, a former Marine who served in Vietnam and later became a state representative in Boston, had more to say.

"I kicked in the door," he said, and then, police swarmed the area. Vallely said DiFruscia's office was of no interest; the Kerry phone lines were. In hindsight, he said, "We probably were overreacting to someone who was joking."

http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061803.shtml

Looks like we are going to see another piece of worthless RW propaganda, full of distortions and innuendo, about an inconsequential incident. Due to the undeniable dishonesty and complete failure of the Bu$h administration, republicans have no positive accomplishments to campaign on. So they have to dig up unimportant little incidents that took place more than three decades ago, or they would be totally helpless.

They make republicans look so sad and pathetic.

It is well documented that Bu$h helped Enron sell our country out, and took our nation to war through, at the very least, incomprehensible stupidity. And these guys are worried about some minor error in judgement made by a couple of kids over thirty years ago?

That's what I call desperate.

Bwaaaahaaaahaaaahaaaa.

[genius]

13. MAybe we should do a film about Bush's grandfather and Hitler

[DrFunkenstein]

14. Karl Rove's Watergate "Shenanigans" Exonerated By Papa Bush

In 1973, he and the College Republicans were accused of encouraging dirty tricks during the Watergate campaign year of 1972. The Republican National Committee, which was then chaired by Bush's father, investigated and eventually exonerated Rove, who blames political opponents from his chairmanship race for spreading false allegations.

But Rove acknowledges that, in 1970, he used a false identity to gain entry to the campaign offices of Illinois Democrat Alan Dixon, who was running for state treasurer. Once inside, Rove swiped some letterhead stationery and sent out 1,000 bogus invitations to the opening of the candidate's headquarters promising "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/rove072399.htm

[TexasSissy]

15. Not good. But it doesn't sound like much is there. They're grasping

at straws, it seems.

[bushwakker]

17. Trust me - this is nothing*

[bushwakker]

16. What's next - JK's steamy fling with Morgan Fairchild?