Great article, although they scrunch the number of supporters, same old, same old media.
Raucous crowd at BCCC greets Kerry
By BRIAN SCHEID
Bucks County Courier Times
In a stump speech for 8th District congressional candidate Patrick Murphy on Thursday, U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., condemned what he called Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick's, R-8, recent “attacks” on Murphy's military service.
Kerry told a raucous crowd of more than 200 people outside the Bucks County Community College's student center that Fitzpatrick “attacking Patrick Murphy's service is like Jessica Simpson attacking Albert Einstein's IQ.”
“We've had enough of these lies,” Kerry said as the crowd erupted in applause. Kerry was referring to a Fitzpatrick press conference two weeks ago where two Iraq war veterans said Murphy has mischaracterized his role in Iraq and a television ad launched by Fitzpatrick's campaign this week that claims Murphy lied about his employment as a federal prosecutor in New York.
Kerry, who won 51 percent of the vote in Bucks County during his unsuccessful 2004 presidential campaign, called the attacks “the closest that Mike Fitzpatrick has ever come to combat.”
Thursday, Fitzpatrick denied he had ever criticized Murphy's military service.
“I appreciate Patrick Murphy's service and respect it as much as anyone and never said anything to the contrary,” Fitzpatrick said.
However, Fitzpatrick stood behind the content of his new campaign ad that claims Murphy was not a U.S. attorney and refutes Murphy's claim he “prosecuted some of New York's toughest criminals.”
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At a debate Thursday morning in Falls, Murphy used his opening remarks before a crowd of about 70 people to call Fitzpatrick “a liar and a coward” for running the ads.
“I will not stand here and let you defame me,” Murphy said to Fitzpatrick. snip>
At Kerry's appearance Thursday, John Cordisco, chairman of the Bucks County Democratic Committee, called Fitzpatrick's ad “despicable.”
Bucks County Commissioner Sandra Miller, a Democrat, said the ads spoke to the “honor and integrity” of Fitzpatrick's campaign.
“Innuendo, distortions, fabrications, lies ... these are the values the Republicans have put forth in this campaign,” Miller said.
In his speech, Kerry said Fitzpatrick's ad was symptomatic of the “culture of corruption” that he said the Republicans have created in Washington.
“What you have in Washington is a house of lies and we need to sweep that house clean,” Kerry said. In his speech Thursday, Kerry discussed how America's presence in Iraq has made the country less safe and created more terrorists and discussed the need to set a troop withdrawal deadline to “bring our heroes home.”
He also discussed how the “out of control” Republican Congress has squandered a surplus left by President Clinton into a deficit in the Bush administration.
“Spent on bull(expletive),” an audience member shouted.
“I couldn't have said it better myself,” Kerry said with a laugh. “Man, we really are articulate.” more>
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-10272006-733... The MSM plays with the numbers as normal, it was well over 400.
Fitzpatrick is nothing but slime, he needs to go.
Patrick Murphy needs all the help he can get. He will be a fantastic voice for all of us.
http://www.murphy06.net/tocontribute.html
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