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April 22, 2004

Bush Bros. specialty: Mendacious Misrepresentations

From Florida Politics:

Presidential candidate John Kerry nearly slipped on oil Wednesday when Gov. Jeb Bush took the words of a student reporter and used them to accuse the Massachusetts senator of favoring oil drilling off Florida's coast.

If it had been true it could have been as devastating to Kerry's chances of winning Florida as threatening to end Social Security. But Kerry's campaign insisted that the Independent Florida Alligator made an "honest mistake" and that Kerry is a staunch opponent of drilling off Florida's shores.

But that didn't stop Bush, who waved a copy of the student-run newspaper in front of reporters in Tallahassee Wednesday and said he couldn't believe that no one else had reported it.

Posted by Norwood at April 22, 2004 07:50 AM
Comments

I Live in Florida, and in my opinion..if we continue to leave this state , and this country to the shrub brothers.....we're all gonna be in a world of hurt. They only want to help themselves, do for their friends..and of course...lets not forget BIG BUSINESS!!!!!!

Posted by: Patrick at April 25, 2004 10:17 AM