Anti-Kerry group aims to keep an active role

[Rose Siding]

...In his first interview about his role in the anti-Kerry group, Franke, a Navy veteran who served briefly as publisher of the old St. Louis Globe-Democrat in the 1980s, said his group succeeded in its mission to discredit Kerry and may help distribute a controversial film attacking the Massachusetts senator.
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Franke offered no new evidence for his claims that Kerry misstated facts about his Vietnam service. But he said the swift boat group's members remained frustrated, feeling that the news media did not bore in sufficiently on what he regards as unanswered questions about Kerry's service records. He added that he was troubled by a political dust-up in Kerry's home state last week that may have cost the group's public relations firm, Virginia-based Creative Response Concepts, a contract with the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority.

"They have called us rag merchants and liars and scum and every name under the sun. But what he has never done is respond substantively to our accusations," said Franke. He said the group might issue more "statements" about Kerry, but he wasn't specific.
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"Our objective from the beginning was to deny Sen. Kerry command over the armed forces of the United States. . . . We stopped him for the time being, but he's shrewd and aggressive, and if he can run again, he'd try it," Hoffman said.

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