Years later, I found out that his "get out the vote" people from the health care workers union were CPUSA members, every single one of them.
--- Matthew Snyder <mwsnyder at gmail.com> wrote:
> [This from a guy who spent $61,000 of taxpayer money
> to produce and
> distribute 20,000 copies of a DVD of his own
> swearing-in, during an election
> year, and justified the expense by claiming it was
> an "important historical
> moment."]
>
>
<http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/politics/9373743.htm>
>
> House speaker says Democratic opponent has Communist
> Party ties
>
> Associated Press
>
> PHILADELPHIA - The state House Speaker alleged that
> his Democratic
> opponent has Communist Party ties because a party
> chapter's Web site
> contains a link to his campaign literature.
>
> John Perzel, a Republican seeking a 14th term in his
> Northeast
> Philadelphia district, issued a news release Tuesday
> urging Tim Kearney to
> "dissociate himself from that extremist group."
>
> The home page of the Communist Party of Eastern
> Pennsylvania and Delaware
> includes a link with Kearney's last name misspelled,
> "Kearmey 2004." That
> link leads to a letter from Kearney recruiting
> campaign volunteers and
> advertising four fund-raising parties that were held
> in December.
>
> "I find it very distressing that a candidate for
> public office would align
> himself with an ideology that not only espouses
> hatred for America and our
> capitalistic system but has sanctioned some of
> history's most horrific
> crimes against humanity," Perzel said.
>
> Kearney said he never has been a Communist Party
> member, and he did not
> know about the Web site link until a reporter asked
> him about it. He said,
> however, that he had "no problem" with the link.
>
> "Some of the most active and progressive citizens of
> Northeast
> Philadelphia, Germantown, Mount Airy, Center City
> and West Philadelphia"
> are Communist Party members, he said.
>
> Perzel also called on Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell to
> "denounce" Kearney for
> his alleged party ties.
>
> "I'm stunned. I thought the Communist Party was
> totally defunct," said
> Rendell, who added that he hoped Kearney would try
> to remove the letter
> from the Web site.
>
> --
> Matthew Snyder
> Philadelphia, PA
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