Pro-Bush 527 MoveOnForAmerica.Org caught in a resume lie

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/extra/archives/000813.html

Who is Stephen Marks?
Over the last few days, several leading news organizations have run stories about the creation of a new 527 'advocacy' group called MoveOnForAmerica.org. Not to be confused with the anti-Bush MoveOn.org, this new group headed by GOP consultant Stephen Marks hopes to pull a "Willie (sic) Horton"-style attack on John Kerry with two TV ads -- one linking Kerry to the parole of an escaped-on-furlough convicted cop shooter (somebody else made a deathbed confession) and one chronicling the most nefarious side of Kerry supporter Al Sharpton.

The story was run by the Associated Press, and versions of it were carried in the New York Daily News. USA Today, the Charlotte Observer, the Kansas City Star, and even India's Hindistan Times. Marks claims 522,636 Internet hits over Labor Day weekend.

He also made some interesting claims about his resume. The one that caught the eye of Campaign Extra! was that he'd been an "investigative reporter" for New York Newsday. We worked at Newsday during all of the New York edition's 10-year run, and were in the NY newsroom for five of them. The name of Stephen Marks didn't ring any bells. It also didn't get any valid hits on a Nexis search of the Newsday data base.

Marks claims "he has also been a press secretary in GOP campaigns (including Jeb Bush's bid for governor in 1994)." But if he was a press spokesman, he must have been a very soft-spoken one, because again there were no Nexis hits for Marks and the Jeb Bush campaign. So then Campaign Extra! tracked down the man who really was Jeb Bush's 1994 press secretary, Florida political consultant Cory Tilley. Here's some of what he told us in an email:

"I have to admit -- it has been 10 years so I guess I could have met Mr. Marks --- but I honestly have no memory of him at all -- and as far as I know he did not work on Governor Bush's 1994 campaign. I was his Press Secretary -- and since we had an unusually small staff -- the only spokesperson." Tilley went on to say it's possible that Marks could have been a county-level spokesman, saying "I am searching for some explanation."

[Lex]

1. Another LIAR affiliated with Bush.

How many are there now? I'm losing count.

[LTR]

2. Newsday Reporters and Press Secretaries for Truth?

Oh brother! :eyes:

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. I'd send a handwritten thank you note

to whoever got started with what's behind this 527! Thank you to the unknown(s) in the Kerry Campaign! Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!

[stevedeshazer]

4. Just when you think the BS can't get any deeper...

Some new poseur comes along. How many of these people are on the GOP payroll?

[Spinzonner]

5. Karl really needs to start recruiting a higer quality of liar

though I suppose they are hard to come by in the Republican party.

Perhaps we could start a liar search and recruiting firm.

[0rganism]

6. Why? The current batch is doing fine for them

Once they realized they owned the media, the GOP decided to outsource a lot of their smear agent background checking to destitute chickens in Zimbabwe, although they've kept the front-end distribution centers in the states. Quality control for lies is unnecessary, once you have a lapdog media that refuses to question the lies once they've been exposed.