KERRY, THE COMMUNIST PARTY'S CHOICE, MUST REPUDIATE ENDORSEMENT, SAYS AMERIPAC

July 23, 2004

WASHINGTON, DC—Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, the likely Democratic presidential nominee this year, should reject the endorsement he has received from the Communist Party USA, the president of the American Political Action Committee (AMERIPAC) said today.

AMERIPAC President Alan Gottlieb said Americans, and especially veterans, "should be horrified that Sen. Kerry has been endorsed by the Communist Party."

"John Kerry is widely known as the most liberal member of the Senate," Gottlieb noted, "and even in her endorsement message, Communist PAC Chairman Joelle Fishman fawns that Kerry represents a 'progressive coalition.' Perhaps Kerry's coalition might also like the support of the French Communists, the Taliban, Saddam Hussein's Baath Party and other enemies of American values.

"The Communist Party USA has organized a 'Push Bush Out the Door in 2004' effort," Gottlieb added. "They have also heaped praise on Democratic congressional candidate Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama, and South Carolina Democrat Inez Tenenbaum, also running for the U.S. Senate. If that's the kind of political company Kerry wants to keep, he ought to be in a padded room, not the Oval Office.

"Kerry has made a big deal out of his service in Vietnam, fighting communists," Gottlieb stated. "His campaign has repeatedly mentioned the Purple Hearts he received for combat wounds. Maybe those wounds were as superficial as Kerry's devotion to American values seems to be, because so long as he allows that Communist Party endorsement to stand, he unintentionally telling every American voter just what he thinks about defending our Republic.

"We call on John Kerry to repudiate the Communist Party USA, and walk away from its endorsement," Gottlieb concluded. "Otherwise, Americans will know that John Kerry's vision of America has a hammer and sickle waving somewhere over the landscape."

Since 1980, AmeriPAC has helped fund and elect a large number of candidates to public office. In addition to direct financial support of candidates, AmeriPAC also makes independent expenditures, funding proven campaign techniques such as media appearances, press releases, newspaper and magazine advertisements, direct mail, yard signs, television and radio commercials, bumper stickers, and billboards. Scores of candidates from coast-to-coast have received direct and indirect support through AmeriPAC.

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