Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Kerry team attacks on 'special interests'

|
|
 
  
Published: Feb. 13, 2004 at 11:17 AM

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry's campaign hit back Friday against GOP attacks accusing him of being an agent of special interests.

Kerry spokesperson Stephanie Cutter criticized President George W. Bush for making "his first campaign message to the American people a misleading, negative attack on John Kerry." She said it was "another attempt to avoid an honest discussion of the issues."

"John Kerry has a proven record of standing up to the very special interests George Bush caves to," Cutter said. "As president, John Kerry will continue to fight polluters who are trying to rewrite our clean air laws, HMOs who put profits before patients, and the big oil companies who are trying to drill in the Alaskan Wilderness."

Kerry, the junior senator from Massachusetts, has established a potentially decisive lead in the Democratic primary race even though only about a quarter of the delegates to July's national convention in Boston have been chosen. Recent polls show him ahead of the president in approval ratings.

Topics: George Bush, George W. Bush, Stephanie Cutter
© 2004 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Notable deaths of 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee AmfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala
Indianapolis 500 Presidential Medal of Freedom Memorial Day around the nation
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 21
Singer Janelle Monae arrives at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards in Universal City, California
View Caption
Singer Janelle Monae arrives for the MTV Movie Awards at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. UPI/Jim Ruymen
fark
Amsterdam drops ban on drinking beer standing up. Drinking beer upside down still punishable offense...
Photoshop Theme: Mashup products from different centuries. Link goes to real product example
Okay, you've got to admit wildfires are pretty cool when you're looking at them from space
Barnes and Noble tell a 73-year-old patron that men can't be by themselves in the children's area,...
While the Chinese are fiddling with an outdated Russian aircraft carrier, the U.S. has something...
Trololo no mo