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	Groups file complaint against anti-Kerry group=The Hill.com= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If SBVT were classified as a PAC, $135,000 of the $158,750 it raised by June 30th would have been deemed illegal.
		The complaint cites press accounts in which SBVT officials say the group was founded in response to Kerry’s candidacy and an ad the group has produced was made to influence the election.
		SBVT could not be reached for comment at press time.
	www.thehill.com /news/081004/kerry.aspx (387 words)

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		SBVT is an entity which, as a 527 group, has a “major purpose,” indeed an overriding purpose, to influence candidate elections, and more specifically, federal candidate elections, and which has spent, or is planning to spend, significant amounts of funds to influence the 2004 presidential election.
		SBVT has made clear that its major, indeed overriding, purpose is to influence the 2004 presidential election and defeat the Democratic nominee for President, Senator John Kerry.
		SBVT has made “expenditures” in amounts far in excess of the $1,000 threshold of the second prong of the test for “political committee” status.
	www.democracy21.org /vertical/Sites/{3D66FAFE-2697-446F-BB39-85FBBBA57812}/uploads/{2693D8E9-79A5-414D-8F3A-475A6CDA7EE7}.DOC (2739 words)

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		SBVT is a "527" group, a tax-exempt public advocacy group, free to spend money to influence elections as long as they do not work in coordination with political parties or candidates.
		SBVT has waged a politically motivated smear campaign against John Kerry in an attempt to divert attention from questions surrounding President George W. Bush’s own military service record during Vietnam and his record as president of the United States for the past four years.
		In the 60-second TV ad, members of SBVT are presented as men who "served with John Kerry." None of the veterans featured in the ad served on either of John Kerry’s two swift boats (PCF 44 and PCF 94).
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=7295476&postID=109551971590604696 (989 words)

	Swift Vets and POWs for Truth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		SBVT asserted that Kerry was "unfit to serve" as president based upon his alleged "willful distortion of the conduct" of American servicemen during that war, and his alleged "withholding and/or distortion of material facts" as to his own conduct during that war.
		SBVT characterized itself as a non-partisan group both in the legal sense and in spirit, yet several prominent individuals who assisted the SBVT also have had close ties to the Republican Party.
		The initial communications consultant for SBVT was Merrie Spaeth, a Reagan administration press officer and a volunteer consultant to Ken Starr in the Clinton impeachment; she was also a spokesperson for "Republicans for Clean Air," an anti-McCain 527 group formed during the 2000 primaries and funded by Bush supporters who also helped fund SBVT [57][58].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SBVT (4560 words)

	Swift Vets and POWs for Truth - "Sell Out" Cover Letter for TV Station Managers
		SBVT acts independently of and is not affiliated with any political party or candidate for public office.
		SBVT is uniquely positioned to do so since it includes most of the locatable sailors and officers who served with John Kerry in Vietnam.
		SBVT's advertisement serves an important function in the public debate by educating the general public about John Kerry's anti-war activities, false war crimes allegations, and the effect these activities had on the men who served in Vietnam.
	horse.he.net /~swiftpow/article.php?story=20040823224946169&mode=print (1122 words)

	Democracy 21
		The complaint asserts that SBVT is in fact a federal political committee under the law and is in violation of the restrictions applicable to federal political committees.
		Because SBVT meets both parts of this test, it is a federal "political committee" and is accordingly subject to the contribution limits, source prohibitions and reporting requirements that apply to all federal political committees.
		SBVT is acting in violation of the law and the FEC must act to stop this and the other violations of law by 527 groups."
	www.commondreams.org /news2004/0811-03.htm (1115 words)

	In the Bullpen » Does This Flyer Connect Bush to SBVT? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kerry trashed the members of SBVT when he got back from Vietnam, catered to their vote this year and is now trashing them again when they don’t agree with his message.
		The SBVT are damaging his ego, an ego that he has spent years building up by catering to whatever potential voters want to hear at a specific time.
		He and his campaign are threatening legal action to television stations airing the SBVT commercials, creating commercials refuting the allegations and attacking Bush’s record, pursuing legal action against the Bush/Cheney campaign and even attempting to ban the book from bookstores.
	www.inthebullpen.com /?p=220 (1215 words)

	The Bird's Eye View - P-G Editorial - 8/13/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SBVT is composed of 250+ enlisted men and officers all the way up to admiral who present a different view of Kerry’s Vietnam service than does the Kerry campaign.
		The SBVT wanted to get their story out and the only way was to write a book and buy airtime.
		According to SBVT, of the remaining 18, “12 consider him unfit, 4 are neutral, and two have died.” The Kerry campaign never contacted the officers in the picture to get their permission to use it in campaign ads.
	home.comcast.net /~tbev-comments/pundits/PittsburghPost-Gazette/edt-04-08-13.htm (1925 words)

	Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The website for SBVT was registered on April 14, 2004, under the name of Lewis Waterman, the information technology manager for Gannon International, a St. Louis company that has diversified interests, including in Vietnam.
		A spokeswoman for SBVT, Jennifer Webster, said "it was an effort to make sure we were doing everything legal, that's why you hire a lawyer." Webster said Ginsberg was sought out because he had worked on election law and had worked with the Republican National Committee.
		While the SBVT ad and official statements by the group correctly claim only that the speakers "served with" Kerry, not that they were on the same boat, the distinction was lost on others.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth (3576 words)

	Is there a Swift Boat Silent Majority? by Christopher Fahey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SBVT's claim that they represent "more than 250 Swift Boat veterans who served with Senator John Kerry in Vietnam" is untrue.
		SBVT's signatories are only 6% of the total number of those who served under Swift boat commands in Vietnam.
		SBVT most likely used a simple email campaign to solicit their membership.
	www.graphpaper.com /swiftboats (152 words)

	TIME.com: Kerry In Combat: Setting The Record Straight
		SBVT's biggest donor is Houston developer Bob Perry, who has given more than $4 million to Republicans, including Bush, and is a close friend of Bush adviser Karl Rove's.
		SBVT alleges that the wound was a minor, self-inflicted scratch.
		SBVT charges that Kerry exaggerated his role in a battle on Feb. 28, 1969.
	www.time.com /time/election2004/article/0,18471,686045,00.html?cnn=yes (791 words)

	GOPUSA - Frank Salvato
		As they shriek collusion while pointing fingers at SBVT and the Bush campaign for being in bed together, MoveOn.org, America Coming Together and The Media Fund move ever forward in their liberally financed mission to unseat President Bush, an illegal activity as defined by the US tax codes.
		It would seem that because the president didn't mention the SBVT by name the Kerry spin machine is refusing to acknowledge that President Bush condemned anything at all.
		The fact that he didn't mention the SBVT specifically sent the Kerry campaign running away screaming with their fingers in their ears.
	www.gopusa.com /commentary/fsalvato/2004/fs_0826p.shtml (831 words)

	Swift Boat Veterans for Truth/Complaint to the FEC - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The complaint argues SBVT, as a registered 527 committee, should be bound by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 requirements.
		"SBVT is an entity which, as a 527 group, has a 'major purpose,' indeed an overriding purpose, to influence candidate elections, and more specifically, federal candidate elections, and which has spent, or is planning to spend, significant amounts of funds to influence the 2004 presidential election," it stated.
		Spokesman for the SBVT, Mike Russell, told Associated Press that the advertisement is legal because it did not explicitly advocate a vote for a particular presidential candidate in the presidential race.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth/Complaint_to_the_FEC (425 words)

	Democracy Project: Democracy Project
		Kerry adherents, including among the mainstream media that Kerry admits he counted upon to ignore and squelch the SBVT, have coined the term “swiftboating” to mean a scurrilous, factless attack upon a candidate.
		The telling point that so undid Kerry was not the SBVT unearthing of his less than exemplary decades-old behavior, but that Kerry himself promoted his myth as seemingly his only qualification for president, while his pronouncements on current challenges were so hemmed-and-hawed and distinctions-without-a-difference as to be deemed hollow portents of worthwhile leadership.
		The core point of the SBVT was that Kerry was Unfit For Command, as a fabricator of his character.
	www.democracy-project.com /archives/002855.html (518 words)

	The Gadflyer: Public Opinion Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There were the Annenberg Election Survey numbers, of course, on how many voters had heard of the the SBVT charges (more than half the country) and found them somewhat or very believable (46 percent of the group that had heard of the charnges).
		But, as numerous observers have pointed out, outside of the ranks of partisan Republicans almost all of these "believers" were those that found the charges "somewhat", rather than "very", believable, indicating little more than a willingness to consider the charges rather than a firm belief they are true.
		The SBVT ads and subsequent media feeding frenzy didn't change that equation in the slightest--and it's not an equation that favors Bush's re-election.
	gadflyer.com /articles/?ArticleID=198 (1827 words)

	Different Limbaugh, Same Hypocrisy In His Attack on John Kerry With the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
		Once one realizes that the people involved with SBVT never actually were with Kerry, one must conclude that the legitimacy is lost.
		The truth is that SBVT is not negative campaigning, it is slander.
		The fact that some of the SBVT are democrats is unconvincing when you take into consideration how vehemently Kerry opposed the war upon his return from Nam.
	www.opednews.com /wade_081504_limbaugh_swift_boat.htm (2644 words)

	Misleader.org
		McClellan neglected to mention that Kenneth Cordier, who appears prominently in the SBVT ads, was a member of the Bush/Cheney veterans steering committee.
		According to Schmidt, the campaign had no idea that Cordier was involved in the SBVT ads - which have been a major issue in the campaign for weeks and replayed repeatedly on national television.
		Also skipped over by McClellan: The primary financial backer of the SBVT is Bob Perry - the top donor to Republicans in the state of Texas.
	www.misleader.org /daily_mislead/read.html?fn=df08232004.html (272 words)

	John Kerry military service controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		SBVT also claims that the wound was not from enemy fire but was from shrapnel of a grenade he fired himself [1], a claim they believe is supported by the fact that no combat casualty or after action report for the incident has been discovered.
		James Wasser, who later became Kerry's radarman on PCF 44, was serving as an interpreter on board-and-search missions at the time; on the night of December 2 he was on the Swift boat accompanying the skimmer, interrogating fishermen picked up by the skimmer (Tour of Duty, pp.
		Thurlow and others in SBVT claim that, although it normally would have been Thurlow's responsibility, Kerry wrote the after-action report upon which all the citations were based.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Kerry_military_service_controversy (4846 words)

	The Iron Mouth - Saturday, 28 August 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Kerry camp used the SBVT episode as a springboard to establish the democratic nominee’s cojones credentials.
		This is the most important aspect of the Kerry attempt to turn the tables on the SBVT attacks.
		But the Kerry Camp’s response to SBVT made it highly unlikely that the Republicans will be able to unleash a series of more attack ads like this one.
	ironmouth.com /default.aspx?date=2004-08-28 (1388 words)

	Opinion column: Credibility - Opinions
		SBVT has accused Kerry of lying about this incident, citing it as evidence Kerry is "unfit for command." However, two of the members of SBVT praised Kerry's service as recently as 2003.
		One of the leaders of the group, Larry Thurlow, has claimed Kerry had a "master plan" to "engineer three Purple Heart incidences" and "engineer a record for himself." When pressed to substantiate his claims on "Hardball" last week, Thurlow admitted Kerry's "master plan" merely was an unprovable theory.
		If SBVT was a political loose cannon, then their baseless claims could be easily dismissed, but President Bush's denial of any links to the group, despite evidence suggesting otherwise, raises questions concerning the Bush campaign's involvement with the attacks on Kerry.
	www.dailyillini.com /news/2004/08/30/Opinions/Opinion.Column.Credibility-706904.shtml (367 words)

	The Pine Needle > Opinions
		To hear SBVT tell it, Sandusky and the rest of Kerry’s crew are dupes, and SBVT have accused Kerry of exaggerating his military record, and have called him a reckless, cowardly liar.
		Indeed, SBVT is hardly the paragon of truth, and veterans with whom they have spoken often have taken on a pod-people aura, suddenly turning on their own previous testimonials and jealously guarding their military records—records which vindicate Kerry.
		One of SBVT’s tools is the use of sworn affidavits, as opposed to source material such as Navy records.
	www.uncp.edu /pineneedle/opinions/2004-05/090304_OP_Kerry_fight.htm (1282 words)

	The Bird's Eye View - State Rep. Frank LaGrotta – 8/12/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Democrats and their allies in the old media have been looking for a real connection ever since the SBVT came out and haven’t found any compelling evidence of a link.
		But when the little SBVT 527 came along, Kerry whined, “Please, please President Bush, make them stop!” Liberals – you know who you are – can dish it out, but they can’t take it.
		The SBVT said that was a lie and the Kerry campaign admitted the reverse was true.
	home.comcast.net /~tbev-comments/pundits/LaGrotta-04-08-12.htm (1849 words)

	Redlands Local Companies
		Huntington obtained control of SBVT on 10 June 1907 and it became part of the PE system on 1 September.
		History: Built by SBVT in 1902 and Urbita Springs amusement park was built in the year 1903.
		SBVT contracted with the Salt Lake Line to handle that railroad's express matter(American Express Company) between Colton-San Bernardino and Redlands.
	www.erha.org /earlyredlands.html (1144 words)

	EphBlog: Vitriolic
		Since the SBVT have a lot to say, I thought that it would be useful to focus specifically on one or two of their claims.
		I suggested two specific items: SBVT claims that Kerry is lying when he claims to have been in Cambodia during Christmas 1971 and SBVT add #2 about Kerry's Congressional testimony.
		I wanted to begin with the Cambodia issue because it is beyond dispute that what SBVT say in the book (Kerry was not in Cambodia in Chistmas 1971) is true while what Kerry said on the Senate floor (he was in Cambodia in Chistmas 1971) was not.
	www.ephblog.com /archives/001096.html (7509 words)

	OpinionEditorials.com — “I Know You Are But What Am I?” - Salvato
		What matters is whether the Bush campaign has colluded, has aided the SBVT — a 527 group — in their efforts.
		To date it would be impossible to count the number of times the Bush campaign has officially stated they condemn all 527 activity.
		I know that at times what is brought forth from the liberal spin room may appear to be childish and almost infantile — such as we are experiencing right now — but it is something of a wonder to see.
	www.opinioneditorials.com /guestcontributors/fsalvato_20040824.html (964 words)

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