Reply #35: Proof of being a GOP plant is taking 270k from Stone to bring up race--

[msanthrope]

And Al's campaign manager--a Stone appointee, admitted he'd directed Sharpton's attacks, including his insistence that he speak primetime at the convention (which he was not allowed to do.) Sharpton then refused to support the nominee, Kerry, and continued his attacks on the party.

"Sharpton recently rebuffed an appeal by DNC chair Terry McAuliffe to join a post-primary March 25 event to support the nominee, sending a letter saying he would attend but would also "continue to campaign vigorously until the last day of the convention." He has also repeatedly vowed that he would speak on prime-time TV during the July convention, saying party leaders would decide "whether that's inside the hall or out in the parking lot," threatening demonstrations unless granted exposure guaranteed to turn off many voters. Stone terminated a 45-minute Voice interview shortly after he was asked about any involvement he might have had with the letter to McAuliffe, saying he was "not characterizing my conversations with Sharpton," though he freely did in a recent Times interview.

While Bush forces like the Club for Growth were buying ads in Iowa assailing then front-runner Howard Dean, Sharpton took center stage at a debate confronting Dean about the absence of blacks in his Vermont cabinet. Stone told the Times that he "helped set the tone and direction" of the Dean attacks, while Charles Halloran, the Sharpton campaign manager installed by Stone, supplied the research. While other Democratic opponents were also attacking Dean, none did it on the advice of a consultant who's worked in every GOP presidential campaign since his involvement in the Watergate scandals of 1972, including all of the Bush family campaigns.Asked if he'd ever been involved in a Democratic campaign before, Stone cited his 1981 support of Ed Koch, though he was quoted at the time as saying he only did it because Koch was also given the Republican ballot line."
http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-01-27/news/sleeping-with-the-gop/1/

And let's not forget, as New York Democrats do not--that good ole' Al worked to get Bloomberg elected, actively campaigning against Mark Green. Al is for the Sharpton, by the Sharpton, and of the Sharpton, always.