Backers of the Smear Boaters: Spaeth, Perry-----M&M, L'Oreal !!!???

[UTUSN]

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http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth

.... History

The website for SBVT was registered on April 14, under the name of Lewis Waterman, the information technology manager, Gannon International, a St. Louis company that has diversified interests, including in Vietnam. Joe Conason wrote in Salon that "although Waterman wouldn't discuss why he had set up the Web site, he didn't deny that his boss, Gannon president and CEO William Franke, had asked him to do so." <2> <3> H3 "The information about my client is confidential," Waterman told Conason. "He acknowledged knowing, however, that his boss Franke is a Navy veteran who served in Vietnam on swift boats. Gannon vice president Stephen D. Hayes, who oversees the company's office in Alexandria, Va., is likewise a swift boat veteran who first met Franke when they served together in the Mekong Delta."

According to the Dallas Observer's John Gonzalez, the newly formed group hired former FBI agent turned private investigator Tom Rupprath, "to locate swift boat vets and to dig up whatever he could regarding Kerry's service record." <4> ....

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http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Merrie_Spaeth

Merrie Spaeth

Merrie Spaeth is "the public relations consultant representing" Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT). "According to CBS television news, election commission records gave the maximum possible £2,000 donation" to the Bush-Cheney '04 Inc. re-election campaign in June 2003. <1>

Her role with the SBVT attack on Kerry prompted the Kerry campaign allegations that she played a role in attempting to discredit John McCain in the Republican presidential primary in 2000. Spaeth told National Review that she was approached to provide PR support after the two Texas millionaires Sam and Charles Wyly, created the front group Republicans for Clean Air to attack McCains environmental policies.

Spaeth said that she agreed to field press inquiries for the group. It "turned out to be the biggest mistake, at least one of the top five," of her life, she said. "I regret being involved in any way," she said. <2>

Spaeth, founder of Spaeth Communications, Inc., "served as a White House Fellow and was assigned to FBI Director William Webster. She was the first Fellow and one of the first two women on the director’s staff. From the FBI, she served two years at the Federal Trade Commission as director of public affairs, and in 1983, President Ronald Reagan named her director of media relations at the White House. Merrie introduced satellite communications to the White House, and the electronic White House News Service. One newspaper headline said she 'took the White House into the Space Age.' <3>

----------Gannon, International--------

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Gannon_International

Gannon International

Gannon International, founded in 1983 by William Edward Franke, describes itself as "the classical model of a holding company, with the principal of Gannon International, or Gannon International itself, owning interests in many other corporations, partnerships or companies. Gannon International provides administrative support for many of the companies or partnerships within the three operational groups." <1> ....

The Gannon Pacific Group is "engaged, in conjunction with local partners, in the distribution of products from around the world into the Asian marketplace. Included within its portfolio of approximately 300 products are such brands as L'Oreal, Lancôme and Maybelline cosmetics, M&M/Mars confectionary goods, Stanley tools and hinges, Mohawk carpeting and Wyeth milk and formula products.

"The Gannon Pacific Group is currently expanding into both the packaging and processing of select consumer products and the development of mixed use developments, including resort hotels and retail facilities, within Thailand." <3> ....

"The Gannon Technologies Group has provided the software support and services for several United States federal and state agencies, including an extensive staffing commitment to the Anti-Trust Division of the United States Department of Justice. ....

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[joefree1]

1. Good stuff, we need to out these swift liers

I'm glad Kerry is no longer ignoring this repukes. Great to see a vigorous Kerry all over the news today.

[CatWoman]

2. Hey Sweetie

:hi:

you see this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x763818

[UTUSN]

4. Thanks, My Last CatWoman----I'm Doing the Show Prep

to send to the local radio talkshow wingnut, who is going to host one of the smear boaters tomorrow or the next day. I'll send this article you linked. Not that the wingnut yakker will have a conscience about it, but I'll make him notice anyway.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. These are the finest colas of information.

Just beautiful buds. No seeds, stems or shake. Excellent.

The Mars Family(M&M/Masterfoods) are right shits, especially the children of the old man. Treat their people like shit.

[Democat]

5. We should organize some contact campaigns with the companies

No company would want to be associated with these guys - someone should organize some bulk callings of these companies to let them know what we think of their people being involved in lying about veterans.