Republican Bad Deeds for 10-17-06

Bob “Swift Boat” Perry is finance chairman for Sekula-Gibbs’ congressional campaign
Houston homebuilder Bob Perry funded the “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” ad campaign questioning Democratic nominee John Kerry’s Vietnam War record. Perry’s new group for spreading lies is “Americans for Honesty on Issues”, which is led by Sue Walden, who is a close ally of Tom DeLay. She was also an adviser to Ken Lay, the former chief executive of Enron. What a nice group of human-beings that is.

Tom DeLay announced he was not a candidate on April 4th, but paid his daughter with campaign contributions through September, and then gave her three months severance pay and three months of reimbursement for health insurance
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Republican shows videos which portray Democrats as opposing integration in the 1950s while presenting Republicans in a favorable light with respect to African-Americans and promotes Christianity on city-owned TV station

Videos created by David Barton, Vice Chair of the Texas Republican Party and a close colleague of disgraced former House Leader Tom DeLay, have now been removed from a city-owned TV station in El Cajon, California. Barton has also been linked to groups with racist and anti-Semitic views.

Republican National Committee chair Ken Mehlman questioned about requesting two tickets to a July 2001 U2 concert from Jack Abramoff
If he accepted the tickets, the current head of the RNC failed to include them on his 2001 financial disclosure form.

Hispanics get letter saying it is a crime for immigrants to vote
The state attorney general’s office is investigating a letter received by some Southern California Hispanics that says it is a crime for immigrants to vote and tells them they could be jailed or deported if they go to the polls next month. The truth is that immigrants who become naturalized citizens can legally register to vote.

Ohio Republican Tom Noe went on trial Monday for stealing more than $2 million from a fund for injured workers and spending it on his business and renovating his home in the Florida Keys
Noe, once a member of state boards that oversee the Ohio Turnpike and Ohio’s public universities, was a top Republican fundraiser who gave more than $105,000 to Republicans during the 2004 campaign.

Regards,

Jim