david jones, americans for jobs, healthcare and progressive values made the tv ads that went to work on howard dean and knocked him out as a frontrunner.
he was a panelist on cspan for the annenberg school of journalism, at u. of penn with republican and democrat media, yesterday.
"express advocacy" was the term he used. he would not disclose his donors or who he worked for but did mention gephart and kerry.
i admit his ads were great; simple clear direct. they were better than moveon's which in my view had too much info. or even the media funds which also were not as direct and clear as jones or the swift boat ads.
david jones had it as his stated goal to knock out howard dean. he represents "Democrat on Democrat." i knew the dlc worked against dean and others did too but this here is indeed the admitted smoking gun.
i think this is important to know.
he did it with only hundreds of thousands of $$$ compared to the millions $$$ of the other groups.
he is very good. too bad he's on the attack of democrats on democrats side.
this gets me steamed. all history now and i'm sure fair in politics but goes to show that the territory is filled with landmines.