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| Politics "wid" a taste of Philly, by Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News |
Campaign Extra! has gotten to the bottom, or close to the bottom, of the latest pool of muck in the the Swift boat controversy threatening to drown the whole presidential race. Two of the key players in the new flap are a Philadelphia power attorney and a fast-growing local company. And we now have, exclusively, the first comments since last week from retired Rear Admiral William Schachte, the man who's accused John Kerry of lying about how he won his first Purple Heart in December 1968.
Yesterday, a report suggested that Schachte's attack on Kerry's war record may have been motivated by ties to a lobbying firm seeking a $40 million federal grant for a company here in Philadelphia. The Washington Post article didn't mention that the firm where Schachte may have done some lobbying work -- Blank Rome Government Relations LLC -- is headed by the president's chief fundraiser in Philadelphia, Bush Pioneer David Girard-diCarlo.
But our mini-probe finds these counter-charges may have missed the boat. First, the background: Schachte -- a swift boat commander when Kerry arrived in Vietnam -- says that he, and not Kerry, was commanding the Swift boat on Dec. 2, 1968 when Kerry one the first of his three Purple Hearts. That contradicts what Kerry said about that night, as does Schachte's claim that the boat was not under enemy fire and Kerry wounded himself, which would make Kerry ineligible for a Purple Heart. Some Vietnam-era colleagues have agreed with Schachte, but two men on the boat with Kerry that night say Schachte wasn't even there.
Schachte, who'd only said before that "it was not a very serious wound at all," now says he'd been reluctant to come forward until he saw Kerry's version of what happened. But late Monday, the Kerry campaign said it had learned Schachte had been a registered lobbyist in a successful effort to get the $40 million grant from the Bush adminsitration for FastShip, a company building a marine cargo terminal here in Philadelphia. One partner in that Blank Rome lobbying group is David Norcross -- the chairman of this week's RNC. And the head of the outfit -- Philadelphian Girard-diCarlo -- is a charter member of Bush's "Pioneer" fundraisers who pledged to raise at least $250,000 for the 2004 campaign.
But while Schachte -- who was "of counsel," i.e., a consultant, for Blank Rome --may have been listed on FastShip's paperwork, there's no evidence he's done any actual lobbying. FastShip's CEO, Roland Bullard, told us last night he knew everyone on the project and Schachte was not among them. Friends of Schachte say he doesn't know Norcross or Girard-diCarlo, either. And last night, the Swift boat veteran sent Campaign Extra! a statement:
"I haven't done any work for Blank Rome in a couple of years, and had nothing to do with this contract. They are simply trying to smear my name. If Kerry was in command and received enemy fire that night, why hasn't he produced an after action report?"
Case closed? Not in the never-ending Swift boat saga. Stay tuned.
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