Arnie hires Swift Boat Smearers public relations firm

[realFedUp]

http://www.cadem.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=fvLRK7O3E&b=190089&ct=311297
and
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/v-print/story/11676960p-12565967c.html

The Buzz: Governor taps Swift Boat group's consultants
By J. Peder Zane -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 am PST Monday, December 6, 2004
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger likes to talk about his bipartisan attitude and his longtime personal friendship with failed Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
But when Schwarzenegger decided to raise campaign cash last week during a trip to Texas, he turned to a group called the Mc- Intosh Company. That's the same professional fund-raising firm used by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the advocacy group funded largely by conservative supporters of President Bush that ran controversial television ads during the campaign questioning Kerry's service in Vietnam.

A McIntosh spokeswoman referred all questions about the event to Schwarzenegger aides. Schwarzenegger fund-raising liaison Marty Wilson said he hadn't known about the Swift Boat connection.

"They're a Republican fund-raising company based in Dallas," Wilson said of Mc- Intosh. "They were referred to us by one of our supporters in the area."

Wilson wouldn't say who made the recommendation, but the Buzz is looking forward to cross-checking Schwarzenegger donors from the Dallas event against donors from the Swift Boat ads.

[clydefrand]

1. With friends like that...one certainly needs no more enemies

"his longtime personal friendship with failed Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts."

Bet it doesn't last now if it ever existed!

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Does anybody have any idea how deep this McIntosh family

is in Republican affairs? Is it just a coincidence? Or is this family spread across the nation?

[realFedUp]

3. Do a google for us.

Take a bite out of that apple.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. If it were an uncommon name, I would.

But if it is a name that someone knows of personally, then I'd like to hear their experiences. I'm looking for extensions of the family, and that is something that would be difficult to determine doing searches on the net.

For example, the name of the lawyer that represented Sandra Gourd in Seminole County, Florida in 2000 was McIntosh. But I would not hazard to guess that it's the same family.