Rove associate backs group sponsoring ad attacking Lamont

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http://www.journalinquirer.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17333102&BRD=985&PAG=461&dept_id=161556&rfi=6

Rove associate backs group sponsoring ad attacking Lamont

A new television commercial that targets Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont as a "tax-hiking liberal" is being aired by a tax-exempt advocacy group funded by a major Republican donor from Texas who worked with White House political guru Karl Rove.

That funder, Bob J. Perry, also was the chief financial backer of Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth, another tax-exempt organization that attacked the reputation of U.S. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts in the 2004 presidential election.

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The Free Enterprise Fund subsequently reported spending $59,562 and $124,330, respectively, on "electioneering communications" related to Lamont's challenge to U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman in Connecticut and the election bid of another Democratic senate candidate, Jon Tester, in Montana.

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Lamont's campaign spokeswoman, Liz Dupont Diehl, said Friday that the connections between Perry, Rove, and the Swift Boat group, "really show whose Joe Lieberman's friends are.

"Here is proof positive that Lieberman is more likely to side with George Bush and Dick Cheney than people of Connecticut," she said. "And these are the very same people behind the swift boat campaign, one of the most disgraceful incidents in American political campaigning, which defined new lows, and they are choosing to focus on Connecticut and to focus on Joe Lieberman."

[xchrom]

1. i want bob j perry and the swift boaters destroyed.

their lives left in rack and ruin.

they are lower than pat robertson and rove combined.

[Bandit]

5. I would bet my annual pay check he has skeletons in his closet

He is one mean Republican so must have done things he could be convicted of. He needs to be investigated and prosecuted.

[xchrom]

7. oh i'm with you.

i donated to that patriot something -- anti-swift boater campaign -- but i want this fuck humiliated for what he has brought to politics.

[BootinUp]

2. I can't believe Democrats in CT

are going to still feel Joe is their man if they learn this, along with other recent statements from Joe.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Go figure?

I think the M$M is full of shit on this one.

[saigon68]

4. Joementum Limpmann is a member of the Repuke Party

There is no doubt

[sallyseven]

6. That is one romantic picture.

Look how he responds to him. Lamont has to get back on the Attack. Now.
He can't let lieberman win by default. Talk about the swift boaters and the people in CT will throw out Joe.

[krkaufman]

11. God that's a creepy photo. Anyone who can have that expression...

... gazing at Bush is lacking a basic understanding for what BushCo is doing to this country.

[BlueManDude]

8. It's pretty frsutrating to see how many CT Dems still support Liebs n/t

[robbedvoter]

9. Amazing how Joementum is entangled in the worst of the worst

of the BFEE! Not news of course, but still amazing to me.
And that there are dems in Connecticut who, in this day and age are blind to this shows how many sheep we have in this party...Sorry, but with all that's going on, I think people have a duty to stay informed.

[annabanana]

10. Anyone here surprised? Swiftboating was inevitable... n/t

[6000eliot]

12. Any Democrat who votes for Lieberman

is also voting for that scumbag Rove.