MoveOn Press Release
MOVEON PAC TO RE-AIR TV SPOT CONTRASTING BUSH-KERRY MILITARY SERVICE
Says Bush Needs to Keep Promise: Release His National Guard Records
Intensifies Response to Unfair Swift Boat Attack on Kerry
MoveOn PAC announced today it will resume airing a television ad that contrasts John Kerry's heroic Vietnam war record with the President's military service history.
The move aims to refocus attention on two related issues:
the President's continued refusal to keep his promise, made on Meet the Press, to release all documents concerning his stateside military service during the Vietnam War; and
the President's continued refusal to ask his political allies to cease their smear campaign against John Kerry's Vietnam combat record.
The Associated Press on June 22, 2004 sued the Pentagon and Air Force seeking access to all unreleased military records of George Bush's service during the Vietnam War. Bush could release his military records with the stroke of a pen, but refuses to do so.
The PAC ad also responds to the Bush Campaign's refusal to disavow an unfair ad that attempts to undermine the validity of combat medals Kerry received for service in Vietnam including three purple hearts, bronze and silver stars. Over 6,000 veterans, current soldiers, and their families have signed a petition on MoveOn PAC's website condemning the "Swift Boat Veterans for Bush" ad and calling on Bush to reject these smear tactics.
"As General Wesley Clark pointed out yesterday, Kerry served and fought while Bush ‘scrambled and used his family's influence to get out of hearing a shot being fired,'" said Eli Pariser, executive director of MoveOn PAC. "Given Bush's refusal to call off his attack dogs, we think it's important that the American people be reminded of this fact."
"Our ad in no way impugns the service of those men and women now bravely serving their country in Iraq. They are in harm's way and deserve our respect and support. As one of our members, the wife of a veteran, said yesterday, ‘To make such claims against Senator Kerry's record also smears the record of the other soldiers who served honorably in Vietnam and are serving today,'" said Pariser.
The MoveOn PAC ad, which aired widely in the spring, contrasts Kerry's volunteer service as a young lieutenant in Vietnam, captaining a boat under fire in the Mekong Delta and rescuing an injured crew member, with Bush's limited tenure in a country club unit of the Texas National Guard, where the sons of prominent Texans went to avoid overseas service.
"This election is about character," the MoveOn PAC ad concludes. "It's between John Kerry, who left no man behind…and George W. Bush, who simply left," a reference to Bush's disappearance while he was assigned to active duty as a National Guard pilot.
The ad will run next week on CNN nationally, on FOX News and CNN in Washington, D.C., and in four Ohio markets, a $110,000 buy. Additional markets may be added.
Documentation for Kerry/Bush military service comparison TV Ad can be found at:
http://www.moveonpac.org/content/pdfs/Kerry-BushAdbackup.pdf
Says Bush Needs to Keep Promise: Release His National Guard Records
Intensifies Response to Unfair Swift Boat Attack on Kerry
MoveOn PAC announced today it will resume airing a television ad that contrasts John Kerry's heroic Vietnam war record with the President's military service history.
The move aims to refocus attention on two related issues:
the President's continued refusal to keep his promise, made on Meet the Press, to release all documents concerning his stateside military service during the Vietnam War; and
the President's continued refusal to ask his political allies to cease their smear campaign against John Kerry's Vietnam combat record.
The Associated Press on June 22, 2004 sued the Pentagon and Air Force seeking access to all unreleased military records of George Bush's service during the Vietnam War. Bush could release his military records with the stroke of a pen, but refuses to do so.
The PAC ad also responds to the Bush Campaign's refusal to disavow an unfair ad that attempts to undermine the validity of combat medals Kerry received for service in Vietnam including three purple hearts, bronze and silver stars. Over 6,000 veterans, current soldiers, and their families have signed a petition on MoveOn PAC's website condemning the "Swift Boat Veterans for Bush" ad and calling on Bush to reject these smear tactics.
"As General Wesley Clark pointed out yesterday, Kerry served and fought while Bush ‘scrambled and used his family's influence to get out of hearing a shot being fired,'" said Eli Pariser, executive director of MoveOn PAC. "Given Bush's refusal to call off his attack dogs, we think it's important that the American people be reminded of this fact."
"Our ad in no way impugns the service of those men and women now bravely serving their country in Iraq. They are in harm's way and deserve our respect and support. As one of our members, the wife of a veteran, said yesterday, ‘To make such claims against Senator Kerry's record also smears the record of the other soldiers who served honorably in Vietnam and are serving today,'" said Pariser.
The MoveOn PAC ad, which aired widely in the spring, contrasts Kerry's volunteer service as a young lieutenant in Vietnam, captaining a boat under fire in the Mekong Delta and rescuing an injured crew member, with Bush's limited tenure in a country club unit of the Texas National Guard, where the sons of prominent Texans went to avoid overseas service.
"This election is about character," the MoveOn PAC ad concludes. "It's between John Kerry, who left no man behind…and George W. Bush, who simply left," a reference to Bush's disappearance while he was assigned to active duty as a National Guard pilot.
The ad will run next week on CNN nationally, on FOX News and CNN in Washington, D.C., and in four Ohio markets, a $110,000 buy. Additional markets may be added.
Documentation for Kerry/Bush military service comparison TV Ad can be found at:
http://www.moveonpac.org/content/pdfs/Kerry-BushAdbackup.pdf
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