Newest Attack.........Kerrys' CEO Backers

[bluedog]

This was on another board....the newest hit at Kerry.I tried the link but it doesn't work for me..
heres the latest attack"""



KERRY'S CEOS: A GANG OF OUTSOURCERS? <08/04 01:14 PM>

The Bush campaign quickly points out that forty of the business leaders who have endorsed Kerry work for businesses on Lou Dobbs' "Exporting America" List:

Zubaid Ahmad, Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Securities
Crandall Bowles, Chairman and CEO, Springs Industries
Eli Broad, Chairman, AIG Retirement Services, Former Chairman, President and CEO, SunAmerica
John H. Bryan, Former Chairman and CEO, Sara Lee
August A. Busch IV, President, Anheuser-Busch
Vinton G. Cerf, Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy, MCI
Mark Chandler, Vice President and General Counsel, Cisco Systems
Richard Fisher, Chairman Emeritus, Morgan Stanley
John Gage, Chief Researcher, Sun Microsystems
Charles M. Geschke, Founder and Chairman, Adobe Systems, Inc.
Charles K. Gifford, Chairman, Bank of America Corporation
Robert Haas, Chairman of the Board, Levi Strauss
Dr. Sidney Harman, Executive Chairman, Harman International
Alan Hassenfeld, Chairman, Hasbro
William H. Hayden, Senior Managing Director, Bear Stearns & Co.
Leo Hindery, Jr., President, AT&T Broadband
Robert Hormats, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
Thomas S. Johnson, Chairman and CEO, GreenPoint Financial Corp.
Bruce Klatsky, Chairman and CEO, Phillips-Van Husen
Michael S. Klein, CEO of Global Banking, Citigroup
Chris Larsen, CEO, E-Loan
Gerald M. Levin, Retired Chairman and CEO, Time Warner
Raymond J. McGuire, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
Heidi Miller, EVP, JPMorganChase
John Morgridge, Chairman, Cisco Systems
Phil Murphy, Senior Director and Former Head, Goldman Sachs Investment Management Division
Charles Phillips, President, Oracle Corporation
Jeffrey Raikes, Group VP, Microsoft
Daniel Rosensweig, COO, Yahoo!
Robert E. Rubin, Member, Office of the Chairman, Citigroup
Henry B. Schacht, Director and Senior Advisor, Lucent Technologies, Former Chairman and CEO, Cummins Engine
Dan Scheinman, Senior Vice President, Cisco Systems
Jonathan Shapiro, President, Lillian Vernon
Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google
Lou Susman, Vice Chairman, Citigroup
Stephen Volk, Vice Chairman, Citigroup
Theodore Waitt, Chairman, Gateway, Inc.
Jason H. Wright, Senior Vice President, Merrill Lynch & Co.
Benjamin M. Rosen, Chairman Emeritus, Compaq Computer Corp. (merged with HP)


(“Lou Dobbs Tonight,” CNN.com, Available At http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/, Accessed 8/4/04)

[A_Possum]

1. Yah, and Bush's list would be how long?

Longer than the Pinocchio President's nose, I'd guess.

*goes out to order something from the Lillian Vernon catalog*

[clydefrand]

2. Just a quick scan of the names

doesn't reveal any Saudis! Whew! Guess Bush has all their support and they can't help Kerry out. :-)

[Jacobin]

3. Bush* shouldn't "go there"

Here's the latest outing of Cheney's criminal activity. While it will never be reported on the media, much less prosecuted, it is still documented:

Here's his signature on a report that was fraudulent and cost Halliburton a $7.5 million fine for securities fraud.



And, oh by the way, its how he got his stock options to be worth tens of millions.


http://www.billmon.org/

[wellstone_democrat]

4. Hmmm...what of the "CEO President?????"

That was the crap spewed about bush* in 2000. "Our first CEO President!"

I thought the replicant party would *love* this...

[drscm]

5. Well, I d@mn well hope that they were also given tax breaks

by the Repugs for outsourcing.

Are any of them Bermuda-based businesses? I hope so because in *Bush's tax plan, that gets you another tax break.

Are any of them spin-offs from failed accounting companies or have they been fined for cheating on a government contract? That would get you even larger government contracts in *Bush-world.

[Justice]

6. Response and Best Quote from One of the CEOs

To compete in today's business world, forced to outsource because competitors do - Kerry proposes giving incentives to company who keep jobs here - so these supporters will be able to keep/move jobs here.

One Texas CEO, a Bush supporter for Governor and in 2000 who has switched to Kerry now was quoted in the WSJ article today as saying Bush was turning out to be the worst president since Millard Fillmore -- and that was an insult to Millard Fillmore.

[enki23]

7. apparently those ceo's support closing tax breaks for outsourcing

even if they have been involved in outsourcing themselves. it's nice to see people can change.