Gore, in Pa. backing Hoeffel, blasts Bush and Specter

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Posted on Fri, Sep. 10, 2004

Gore, in Pa. backing Hoeffel, blasts Bush and Specter

By Jeff Shields

Inquirer Staff Writer


Democrats unleashed Al Gore on Pennsylvania yesterday in a wide-ranging assault against Republicans from President Bush to state politicians.

The former vice president, relishing the role of party hatchet man, took the offensive in speeches in Narberth and Pittsburgh. He exhorted Democratic supporters, lavished praise on federal and state Democratic candidates, and jumped on Vice President Cheney's comments this week that America would be at greater risk of a terrorist attack if Democratic candidate John Kerry were elected president.

"They have tried to use the attacks against America as political weapons," Gore told a partisan crowd of nearly 200 at Narberth Borough Hall. Earlier in Pittsburgh, he called Cheney's comments "a sleazy and despicable effort to blackmail voters with fear."

"Their only hope, they've decided, is to try and make you too afraid to vote for John Kerry," he told a crowd at the United Steelworkers of America headquarters in Pittsburgh. "It's the lowest sort of politics imaginable."

Gore was in Pennsylvania to campaign for U.S. Senate candidate Joseph M. Hoeffel, Pennsylvania Attorney General candidate Jim Eisenhower, and congressional candidate Lois Murphy from Chester County's Sixth District.


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