"Concerned Women": Kennedy sinks to NEW LOW defaming Alito!

[Bluebear]

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To: National Desk

Contact: Stacey Holliday of Concerned Women for America, 202-488-7000 ext. 126

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Concerned Women for America (CWA) says that Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) is displaying the depth of his desperation to sink the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court by linking him to the alleged discriminatory policies of the Conservative Alumni of Princeton (CAP), an organization that disbanded nearly 20 years ago.

“Kennedy will fail to discredit Alito, however, because reasonable people will never believe this good man would discriminate against anybody,” said Jan LaRue, CWA’s Chief Counsel.

Judge Alito has repeated in two days of questioning, “I wasn’t a member of CAP,” and “I don’t have any recollection of having any involvement with CAP.” He repeatedly said that he would never knowingly involve himself with a discriminatory organization.

“Kennedy repeatedly asked Judge Alito whether he had read specific articles about CAP and he said he hadn’t,” said Jan LaRue. “I’d like to ask Kennedy if he read his favorite newspaper, The New York Times, when it reported last November that it had examined the records of CAP and there’s virtually nothing there to tie Alito to CAP. Kennedy is sinking to a new low trying to defame Alito, distort his record and deceive the public. It’s disgusting,” LaRue concluded.

The New York Times reported on November 27, 2005: “emorandum and other records of Concerned Alumni are contained at the Library of Congress in the papers of William A. Rusher, a leader of the group and a former publisher of National Review. Those records and others at Mudd Library at Princeton give no indication that Judge Alito … was among the group’s major donors. He was not an active leader of the group, and two of his classmates who were involved and Mr. Rusher said they did not remember his playing a role.”

“Sen. Kennedy’s demand that papers that have already been reviewed be subpoenaed from the Library of Congress is shameless grandstanding,” stated Wendy Wright, CWA’s Executive Vice President. “Kennedy fails to realize that his questioning of Judge Alito’s exemplary ethics naturally causes people to reflect upon Kennedy’s own less-than-stellar ethics.”


http://www.earnedmedia.org/cwfa0111.htm

[tuvor]

1. I'll bet a CWA donation campaign's coming up. n/t

[Wilms]

2. Oh my my. Oh, dear.

"the depth of his desperation"

"this good man"

"It’s disgusting"

"shameless grandstanding"

:eyes:

[Bluebear]

10. "VIRTUALLY" no proof he had ties. nt

[tnlefty]

3. Did I hear correctly on c-span that Ms. LaRue had an illegal abortion??!!!

I'll try to find a link of some sort for it, but I almost choked when I heard it and I think that Pedro read it from the WaPost style section.

If this is true why is she still a lawyer?

edit: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyb/content/article2006/01/08/AR2006010801256.html

[AX10]

5. probably.

[Skip Intro]

4. self delete

[TahitiNut]

6. They're saying he LIED??

'Judge Alito has repeated in two days of questioning, “I wasn’t a member of CAP,”'

Really? I didn't hear that. If he said that, then he LIED on his application during the Reagan adminstration.

[napi21]

7. Where have these women been living?

I applied for a job working NIGHT TURN at the Federal Reserve Bank many years ago, and they contacted my school, interviewed my neighbors, and checked with our local police to make sure I was an acceptable job candidate before they offered me the job!

I really don't know what might have disqualified me other than some criminal association, but these idiots are complaining about scrutiny into the past of a candidate for the SCOTUS????
WHY?

For some jobs, it doesn't matter how long ago it was, if you did something questionable, people are going to investigate it! I think he's lucky they haven't dug up something from when he was 16!

[cry baby]

11. They live in their gated communities on the golf course.

Kennedy and the other dems are only asking the tough questions because the repubs won't.

[Erika]

8. You mean a women is actually speaking for this radical outfit

It's normally men. They are a right wing fanatic joke.

[global1]

9. Yeah - Like I Believe The NYT........ (sarcasm) ..... n/t

[Erika]

12. Bring up the CWA home page and send them an email

Ask them why they think fetuses should become property of the government as well as their mothers.

At least I did.

[kevinbgoode]

13. wow...and Jan LaRue is such a reliable source for a statement like this. .

after all, the gender-confused organization known as "Concerned Women For America" has a sterling reputation to believing in equality and freedom...LOLOL

[progressivebydesign]

14. From the Daily Princetontonian (in November) xtlnt CAP info!

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/11/18/news/13876.shtml

[unhappycamper]

15. Good article.

Thanks! :thumbsup: