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truthpusher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-24-04 01:27 PM
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Election tactics push envelope
Article Published: Sunday, October 24, 2004

Election tactics push envelope

By Michael Riley
Denver Post Staff Writer


Post / Helen H. Richardson


Littleton teenager Aaron Oster-Beal woke up one morning last week to find the family's Kerry-Edwards yard sign on the porch covered with a rude surprise - a pile of dog excrement.

Voters in Jefferson County have received calls from someone posing as an election official and instructing them to throw away their absentee ballots.

A Colorado Springs woman recently received a call from someone claiming to be from Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign who expressed condolences about the death of her husband in Iraq. When
the woman said she knew her husband was still alive, the caller said a vote for Kerry would help keep him that way.

The Kerry campaign said the stunt was so outrageous that it could only have been staged by someone trying to discredit the Democrat.

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http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E64%257E2488266,00.html



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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-24-04 05:14 PM
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1. Dirty Trix Are For Kids
GOPers always waste the whole box just to get the silly prize inside.

What's really dispicable is that they justify these actions and still consider themselves to be the real patriots. Sick minds flock together.
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