Ex-Rep. Feighan chairs group running ads to discredit Dean [View All]

Ex-Rep. Feighan chairs group running ads to discredit Dean

12/16/03

Stephen Koff
Plain Dealer Bureau Chief


Washington- Ed Feighan, the former Cleveland-area congressman who left Washington during the House banking scandal, is involved in politics - and controversy - again.

A Democrat from Lakewood, he is chairing a secretive campaign to slow the momentum of presidential candidate Howard Dean by running negative ads in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Feighan and his group won't say who's behind the ads.

One ad shows terrorist Osama bin Laden and suggests that Dean, a former Vermont governor, lacks the military and foreign-policy experience to "face the dangers ahead."

Other ads appear intended to question Dean's record as a progressive, noting that he, like President Bush, got "top grades" from the National Rifle Association and, like Bush, embraced the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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