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August 16, 2004

Swift Boat Veterans

Wow, some people are all worked up about the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Democrats claim that they are a nothing but a Republican hit squad.
Some Democrats seem to think that really rich Republicans are giving the Swifties big bucks for more advertisments that will hurt poor Kerry.

If that was true, don't you think that they would have generated more than $400,000 in donations from all those rich Republicans?

Instead, this is turning into a grass roots thing - $400,000 of new donations from 8,000 people.

That averages out to $50 a donation. (The amount I donated, by the way)

Roy F. Hoffman, a retired admiral and chairman of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, said the first TV ad, which ran for one week in Ohio, Wisconsin and West Virginia at a cost of $550,000, got so much national news attention that it generated an additional $400,000 from 8,000 donors around the country. "We are putting together the second ad," said Hoffman, 78, of Richmond, Va. As a Navy captain in 1968 and 1969, Hoffman commanded a unit of 1,650 sailors that included Kerry as a lieutenant. Hoffman said the unit, known as Task Force 115, included about 16 swift boats and their crews, which patrolled the delta looking for Viet Cong and other enemy fighters.

If you would like to donate money to help the Swift Boat Vets get out the truth because Big Media will not, click here.

Posted by Beth at August 16, 2004 06:12 AM