"Swift Boat" flyer pictures from Republican Headquarters in FL

[DoYouEverWonder]

Last night after Skinner posted the press releases from the Kerry campaign about the Swift Boat Liars rally flyers, I decided to take a ride by Republican Headquarters to see for myself what was going on.

The Alachua County Republican Headquarters, which is also home for the Bush Campaign is located at 1212 N. Main St. in Gainesville. Of course, they were closed when I went by, at about 8:00 PM. Looking through the glass doors I could see an easel right inside the front door. Posted prominently on this easel is the flyer in question. Listed on this flyer has part of the event are Alachua County Republicans and Alachua Bush/Cheney Committee. Sure looks like they are supporting this event since these groups are listed on the flyer and they are promoting it from their headquarters.

Here are the pictures that I took to document this evidence. Please pass them along to anyone and everyone that you think will be interested.

Thanks
DYEW

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[mia]

1. Thank you!

It's amazing that this info is still on display.

[imax2268]

2. get these out to

all the talk shows and see who picks up on it...I have emailed the flyer skinner posted to most of the Sunday morning talk shows already...

Get it out there...!!!

[mia]

6. Gainesville Sun

http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=CONTACTUS

News tips: 352-374-5085

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. I called the Sun's tip line last night

what a waste of time that was.

The fellow on the other end kept trying to convince me there was nothing wrong with the local headquarters posting the flyer.

I told him a couple of times if they wanted to get the scoop to send a photographer over, but I doubt if they will do anything.

I did also try to contact our local TV 20 News but couldn't get an answer. I'll try again this morning.

[jimshoes]

16. Here is the flyer

someone posted here on DU last night.

[codegreen]

3. see if you can get a local news crew down there ASAP!!!!

call 'em up and say, "go look at this! film it for a minute! it will be national news!"

do it now before morning when the thugs get there to conceal the evidence!

i don't know if your photos would be admisable in law, or would get on the news... but if it were documented first hand by a reporter, that could make the difference!

[lapfog_1]

4. Email this to the Kerry legal team

and go back on Monday. I'll give you 10 to 1 odds that it's all
gone by early Monday morning (hell, it might be gone by NOW).

I'm pretty sure, along with all of evidence about the people
involved, that this is a clear violation of Federal Election law.

Remember, they hanged Clinton not for having sex, but for lying
about it to a grand jury... and thus breaking the law. Nixon was
forced to resign not because of the Watergate break in, but by
lying about the CREEPs involvement with the burglars.

[imax2268]

5. I'ts on Kerry's site...

so I'm sure they will make good use of it...!!!

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Cool, do you have a link?

Did someone post these pics there? That would be great. I just emailed them but any help getting these pics to the right people would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[demokatgurrl]

9. the pictures

Hi, I am on the Kerry forum all the time. The story is there, and a mention that the pix are here, but not the pictures themselves. I am computer inept but if someone tells me how, I'll happily post them over there. (I tried copy and paste and it doesn't work for me).

[Skinner]

15. Try this.

Go to the page on the kerry website that mentions the pictures. There will be a web address at the top of your browser, in the box that says "Address" or "Location". Select that with your mouse and then click the "Edit" drop-down menu on your browser, and then select "Copy".

Come to DU and reply to this post. Click the "Edit" drop-down menu again and this time select "Paste". That should copy the address into your reply.

You don't have to type any fancy HTML code. Just post the link.

[faithnotgreed]

46. hi demokatgurrl - welcome to du

[Skinner]

19. I've been looking everywhere.

I can't find any mention of the pics on the kerry site. :shrug:

[Stephanie]

22. Here is the Kerry forum

Is that what she's talking about? I can't find the pix though

http://forum.johnkerry.com/index.php?s=b62793efd36fc9e0c46da5d791fb5b61&showforum=99


Here is the Kerry blog:

http://blog.johnkerry.com/

[flordehinojos]

10. I knew that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth line that John Kerry is not

a hero and did not earn his medals struck a familiar ring to the GHWB WWII story by one veteran of that war who claims that Bush bailed out of his thin line of smoke plane(as opposed to the heavily engulfed in smoke and flames plane that Bush One describes), failed to land the plane on the water, and failed to rescue, or attempt to rescue his two crew members who were in the Barbara II with him over the water of ChiChi Jima. The link to that suspicion is in this story of the Swift Boat flyers from the Republican headquarters in Gainesville. NOW how to bring out to light how much they must have paid the original veteran from POPPY's day to use his same line - his same story...and how did they manage to convince the guy to let them use his story, if the story about Bush One is true.

[TNMOM]

11. Good work DYEW.

Thanks.

[Exploding Kitchen]

12. You rock, sir.

I've posted a link back to here and pictures on the forum I frequent that houses both liberals and neocons.

That'll certainly give the conservatives on the boards something to wail and gnash their teeth over.

Thanks again!

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. I hope the pics

get their knickers in a twist.

Thanks for your help spreading this around.

BTW: I'm a mam, not a sir.

[Stephanie]

24. DYEW, I just sent these to BuzzFlash

And I told them I would supply your email address if they wanted it. But maybe you should just write them yourself:

[e-mail]

I sent a link to the thread, your entire post, and the pix.

Great work!

[DoYouEverWonder]

25. Thanks for the help

I just hope these pics end up doing some good for the Kerry Campaign and help put an end to this nonsense from the Swift Boat Liars.

[faithnotgreed]

45. welcome to du kitchen!

[Paradise]

13. wow! thanks dyew! n/t

[Zynx]

17. BUSTED!

I wonder if there have been other offices with the same types of fliers...

[Carni]

18. GREAT THINKING!

Yeah I would certainly say they openly endorse the SB liars!

[DoYouEverWonder]

20. Anybody familiar with campaign laws in Florida?

Would this flyer be subject to campaign laws since both, "Alachua Bush/Cheney Committee" and "Veterans for Bush", are listed has participating organizations?


If this flyer should be subject to campaign laws, then it is clearly in violation of those laws because there is no way to tell who is sponsoring this event and/or who paid for the flyers.

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(1) Any political advertisement and any campaign literature published, displayed, or circulated prior to, or on the day of, any election shall:

(a) Be marked "paid political advertisement" or with the abbreviation "pd. pol. adv."

(b) Identify the persons or organizations sponsoring the advertisement.

(c)1.a. State whether the advertisement and the cost of production is paid for or provided in kind by or at the expense of the entity publishing, displaying, broadcasting, or circulating the political advertisement; or

b. State who provided or paid for the advertisement and cost of production, if different from the source of sponsorship.


http://www.flsenate.gov/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0106/SEC143.HTM&Title=-%3E2002-%3ECh0106-%3ESection%20143#0106.143

[michigandem2]

21. oh wow...thanks for posting these! nt

[Stephanie]

23. I just sent this to BuzzFlash

I think we should send it out to all the blogs too and anyone else. Let it get picked up from there. This could be the key evidence in Kerry's FEC complaint.

[Kahuna]

26. You're our hero!!! Our own Woodward and Bernstein...

Have I told you how much you rock!!!! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[Kahuna]

27. Somebody contact Dem Strategist. He/She should be able to

get these into the right hands.

[Florida_Geek]

28. And they went to

[e-mail]; [e-mail]; [e-mail]; [e-mail]; [e-mail]; [e-mail]; [e-mail]


by Vilma in Florida with your DU handle and comments. :evilgrin:

[tandot]

29. This surely will be helpful in Kerry's complaint with the FEC

This just proves that the Bush campaign and the SwiftVets liars are working together.

Thanks for posting. This is great.

:yourock:

[Pobeka]

30. Proof the flyer was in the GOP campaign headquarters!

GREAT WORK! Because of you we have photographic evidence that the flyer was physically in the GOP headquarters.

They can't lie about it not being there now, and if they said it never was there then they are going to be involved in a cover up.

:toast: :thumbsup:

[rumguy]

31. excellent work!

[Kahuna]

32. Since the story is by AP, I just sent an email with the pictures..

to them. And one to the attention of Ron Fournier. If anybody wants to contact the AP, their email is, ap@org.

[grasswire]

51. direct addy

Ron Fournier's email address is [e-mail]. He reads his mail. Sometimes he writes back.

[Generator]

33. I love u & DU!

Thanks for doing your part to save Democracy.

[Justice]

34. Outstanding - Investigative Journalism

Send to Washington Post

Send to New York Times

Send to FEC

[blondeatlast]

35. Someone in Gainesville get a copy ASAP;

although by now they have probably destroyed them all.

[blondeatlast]

36. I did a simple PSP (don't have Photoshop) brightness adj.

and saved it.

I don't have a page so I'm not sure how I can publish to DU, though.

[gulliver]

37. Not sure it proves anything.

Unfortunately, someone could have just stapled the flyer up on that board. The flyer partially obscures two other posts. Without independent media confirmation, this could easily be sold as a dirty trick on our part.

If the flyer is still there, you might want to call in the local newspaper. Is there more to authenticate this?

Sorry to play the devil's advocate on this one.

[BlueCollar]

39. there's a story

in the Gainesville paper about the flyers...they were present all day at GOP HQ

[gulliver]

42. Thanks.

That's what I hoped to hear.

[BlueCollar]

43. here's a link

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129642,00.html

and since it's from fox news it must be true "n'est ce pas"?

:evilgrin:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=646203

edit : to add du link

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

40. It is INSIDE the headquarters during hours they are closed

it PROVES that an official Bush site was hawking this group and demonstrates a working relationship via promoting the event.

[DoYouEverWonder]

41. I did call my local paper and TV station

and asked them to send someone over to get pics. They didn't seem too interested.

[gulliver]

44. Is the flyer still there by chance? n/t

Heck, I'll call the Gainesville press too if it is still there? Or maybe take a notary or something.

[DoYouEverWonder]

47. I just went by their office again

The flyer has been removed from the easel. I took a few more pictures to document it's removal.

[Stephanie]

49. AP Story:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x648664

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[Cha]

48. Thank you, DYEW! For being such a

a Major Sleuth Noir!

This is incredibly Good Work! Monster! }(

[flpoljunkie]

50. AP has picked up the story! Volunteer Links Anti-Kerry Flier to GOP!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22290-2004Aug21.html

By PETE YOST
The Associated Press
Saturday, August 21, 2004; 7:37 PM

CRAWFORD, Texas - A volunteer for John Kerry said Friday he picked up a flier in a Bush-Cheney campaign office in Gainesville, Fla., promoting Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group the Bush campaign has insisted for weeks it has no connection to.

The Kerry campaign e-mailed the flier to news organizations Friday, declaring that the Bush-Cheney campaign was "busted" for coordinating "in their smear campaign against John Kerry."

At Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters outside Washington, spokesman Steve Schmidt said: "The Bush-Cheney campaign has nothing to do with that piece of paper. ... I don't know how it showed up at the campaign headquarters."

"The Bush-Cheney campaign would object to any flier like this being displayed in any Republican headquarters," said Schmidt. He characterized the campaign operation in Gainesville where the flier was found as county GOP offices used by Bush-Cheney volunteers.

The flier distributed at Alachua County Republican Party headquarters promotes a weekend rally sponsored by "Swift Boat Vets for Truth" and other groups. Bill Shilling, a Kerry volunteer in Gainesville, says he went to the GOP offices there Thursday and picked up the flier from a pile of literature on the table.

more...

[grasswire]

52. excellent job!

By the way, make sure you don't have a way that freepers can find out your identity, because they're on this like white on bread.

[spanone]

53. Great Work!!! A true citizen reporting the truth. It can't hide forever.

[Beetwasher]

54. Whoop! There It Is! How Friggin' Stupid Can They Be? The LEFT IT UP?!

Incredible...You friggin' ROCK DYEW!!!!!

[Proud2BAmurkin]

55. Someone MUST get photos of them taking it down if they haven't!!!

.......even if you or someone from the Kerry campaign has to camp out there. They'll probably do it in the dead of night!

[DoYouEverWonder]

56. The flyer has already been taken down

I went by there around 5:00 PM and it was gone.

I also went by the Not So Swift Boat Vets Rally. What a hoot. The Kerry supports outnumbered the Bu$hbots by about 3 to 1.

Any official presence that may have been planned was no where in sight.

[Stephanie]

57. kick

:kick:

[tjanuranus]

58. Something look off?

On a similar note, tell me if something in this picture just seems a little off for it to be on a news organizations website. Since Fox News isn't really news i guess it's not a problem to them. lol

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