| Press of Atlantic City Kean calls military mom video a smear Woman denies confrontation was staged By PETE McALEER Statehouse Bureau, (609) 292-4935 Published: Sunday, October 15, 2006 It was the type of scene campaigns hope to capture when they set out to film their opponent in public. After a debate in New York last weekend, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tom Kean Jr. stood face to face with the mother of a soldier stationed in Iraq who accused him of avoiding her questions. Kean responded by smiling and walking away. He watched from the other end of the room as his campaign manger interceded and told the woman her questions had already been answered. A few feet away, a campaign staffer for U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez filmed the whole encounter. For Menendez, who has sought to make the election a referendum on the war in Iraq , the episode quickly became a campaign weapon. Within hours, the clip appeared on YouTube.com where more than 64,000 people had seen it as of Friday evening. An e-mail sent to thousands of Menendez supporters includes no less than three links to the video. Click here to read more. |
The Star Ledger Listen to military families? Not Kean Wednesday, October 11, 2006 The piece of shrapnel that killed Sgt. Matthew Fenton pierced his skull just above the left eye on April 26. The medics worked miracles that day to keep him alive. But all they could do was patch him together for the trip home to Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he lived for a few more weeks on a ward full of young men with injuries like his own. Click here to read more. |
| Menendez renews his Iraq attack on Kean Wednesday, September 27, 2006 BY JEFF WHELAN Star-Ledger Staff U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez said yesterday a government intelligence report saying the war in Iraq is contributing to the spread of Islamic extremism shows his Republican rival Tom Kean Jr. is "dead wrong" to continue supporting the war. The Democratic senator, who has called for a withdrawal of troops within a year, said the war "is making us less safe. There is no more denying it." He accused Kean and President Bush of "living in an alternative reality where intelligence findings don't matter, mounting casualties don't count and rhetoric about the war on terror is more important than results." Click here to read more. |
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