Another reason to like Howard Dean
Dec. 14th, 2003 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusSecret organizations are out to get him!
No, seriously, there's an organization called "Americans for Jobs, Health Care and Progressive Values", whose membership and source of funds is kept secret. But they've been airing attack ads against Howard Dean in Iowa. One shows a picture of Osama bin Laden, and claims that Dean can't lead the country while he's out there because he has no military experience.
As suspicious as I am of Bush and the three separate PR organizations he's hired to promote his image (at taxpayer expense, I might add), this smells more of Clark, with its focus on Dean's lack of military career.
But it may come from the combined Kerry/Gephardt campaigns (the ever-changing president of the organization has been from each of them).
But, of course, nobody knows because under the law, sponsors of political ads don't have to reveal their identity until February of the year the election is in. So, as long as they pull these ads before then, we'll never know who ran them, or who's paying them to do so.
Anyway, you can see Dean's response here, which includes a link so you can see the ad itself, and the Washington Post editorial about the ads here.
No, seriously, there's an organization called "Americans for Jobs, Health Care and Progressive Values", whose membership and source of funds is kept secret. But they've been airing attack ads against Howard Dean in Iowa. One shows a picture of Osama bin Laden, and claims that Dean can't lead the country while he's out there because he has no military experience.
As suspicious as I am of Bush and the three separate PR organizations he's hired to promote his image (at taxpayer expense, I might add), this smells more of Clark, with its focus on Dean's lack of military career.
But it may come from the combined Kerry/Gephardt campaigns (the ever-changing president of the organization has been from each of them).
But, of course, nobody knows because under the law, sponsors of political ads don't have to reveal their identity until February of the year the election is in. So, as long as they pull these ads before then, we'll never know who ran them, or who's paying them to do so.
Anyway, you can see Dean's response here, which includes a link so you can see the ad itself, and the Washington Post editorial about the ads here.
