Sunday, August 29, 2004
 Washington Times Aug. 27: President Bush yesterday joined forces with Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, to mount legal and legislative challenges to third-party attack ads, including those that question Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam record...
The president wants to stop the ads, along with other spots by third-party groups, known as 527s because of their tax designation. Yesterday, he telephoned Mr. McCain, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, from Air Force One and enlisted him in a planned lawsuit to force the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) to quash the ads.
"Since the FEC failed to act, we would now be asking the courts to force the FEC to act to shut down all this activity," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. "There would be a lawsuit."
"The president said if the court action doesn't work, then he would be willing to pursue legislative action and work with Senator McCain on that," Mr. McClellan said.
Mr. McCain issued a statement saying: "I look forward to working with the president, both in the courts and through legislation, to force the Federal Election Commission to regulate 527s."
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Swift Boat Veterans spokesman Mike Russell said the group has no intention of halting their ads, including a third one released yesterday.
[...] Just some of the info about our "leaders" that these two clowns are trying to suppress:
- Ad detailing how John Kerry fraudulently obtained war medals
- This ad from MoveOn tells how Bush went AWOL from his National Guard duty (then precedes to whore for Kerry and McCain's shoddy war records).
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