AP and misleading titles - Kennedy, Kerry flew private jets

[Mass]

By Andrew Miga, Associated Press Writer | February 13, 2006

WASHINGTON --Sen. Edward Kennedy was whisked to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic aboard a Fisher Scientific International Inc. corporate jet last winter.


Sen. John Kerry and two political aides flew from Salt Lake City to a retreat for campaign donors and staff at his family's Ketchum, Idaho, vacation home last fall on a plane supplied by Boston Capital, a nationally prominent real estate financing and investment firm.

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Kennedy, D-Mass., reimbursed Fisher $2,097 for his trip, which included visits with a nephew, Peace Corps volunteers and the Puerto Rican governor's inaugural. New Hampshire-based Fisher is a Fortune 500 firm providing products and services to the scientific community. Fisher spokeswoman Gia Oei said the company on "rare occasions" makes its corporate aircraft available to lawmaker

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Kennedy and Kerry each took three trips in 2005 on corporate aircraft that they reimbursed at equivalent first-class fare rates. They paid with campaign funds. The companies have not asked the senators for any legislative favors, aides said.

So where is the impropriety?? Seems AP really wants that to be a bipartisan scandal.

[ProSense]

1. Isn't this the same thing

Romney tried to pull, which means this was already in the news. Why bring up a non-issue again and try to disguise it as something else? Then again, they keep doing it with the Abramoff story. From Media Matters:

AP continued to mislead on purported Abramoff-Reid link

Summary: Two days after an Associated Press report ignored crucial details that undermine a link between Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a follow-up AP article misrepresented new evidence, which the AP suggested provides further confirmation of such a link but, in fact, casts additional doubt on whether such a link exists.

Seems AP is pushing the GOP agenda.

[Mass]

2. I missed the best part, at the end: Kerry used his wife's plane!

What terrible favors does he give her in exchange? :sarcasm:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/02/13/kennedy_kerry_flew_private_jets/

Kerry also travels on his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry's private jet. His campaign pays for political trips aboard the plane, but not when he is on official Senate business, according to Boyd.

AP is really pushing the GOP talking points. At least, we are clear concerning AP being balanced and all that :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

[karynnj]

3. Traveling on Teresa's jet!

Gee next they'll complain that she has his private telephone number. I bet he may have even stayed with her in Davos - saving an expensive hotel charge.

These all certainly look like they were done within the law for both Kennedy and Kerry. (It looks like Romney didn't pay Pfiser back though.