When anti Kerry ads attack
A new group financed by Republicans have been running some dubious attack ads on John Kerry:
The D.C.-based group, People of Color United, has substantial financial backing from J. Patrick Rooney, the former chairman of Golden Rule Insurance Co. and the founder of a new firm, Medical Savings Insurance Co. Both firms specialize in medical savings accounts, created by Republican-backed 1996 legislation, and health savings accounts, which were created by President Bush's 2003 Medicare prescription drug legislation.
So obviously he has no reason to support Bush in this election and is a clear non partisan.
Here's a claim from one of the ads currently running in battle ground states:
One of the radio ads addresses Kerry's failure to vote on a bill to extend unemployment benefits for 13 weeks: "It needed 60 votes to pass. Ninety-nine out of 100 senators voted -- Kerry did not! It lost by one vote! Maybe Kerry thought the more of us who are unemployed and hurting, the more likely we would vote Democrat."
1)Republicans rigged the vote to make Kerry's absence look more important.
2)All Democrats voted for the bill (that's 48 Democratic yeas. Zell Miller doesn't count)
3) So as not to appear hypocritical, I'm sure the group will air similar style ads in the races where Republican Senators voted nay on this issue.