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Kerry Relies on Internet Coordinator Who Doctored Photos on Bush NewsMax.comIn April, Zack Exley was named director of Internet organizing for presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, making him the Democrat's point man on the cyber front in the battle for voters. His background: the operator of a satirical website called GWBush.com and the subject of a federal complaint filed by lawyers for George Bush, according to a report in the LA Times. Exley’s GWBush.com site in 1999 featured doctored photos of then-Governor Bush with cocaine residue under his nose. Exley also posted fake campaign statements under such headlines as "George II: Restoring the Throne to its Rightful Heir." According to the report, since joining Kerry's headquarters in Washington, Exley has, among other initiatives, refined a system to let volunteers see where house meetings are being held in their neighborhoods. "The real [political] debate is among regular people, and the Internet makes it possible for that debate to happen in print from person to person, across states and across communities," he said.
Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, cited the fake photos on GWBush.com in lambasting his appointment as "a clear indication the Kerry campaign is going negative."
Meanwhile, the Bush campaign is looking to a team headed by Chuck DeFeo, a former aide to John Ashcroft when the Attorney General was in the Senate. Defeo, says the report, frequently sends out e-mails to 6 million people -- a much larger list than Kerry has, and tailors smaller missives by geography and areas of interest. "We have been a very grass-roots-oriented campaign," DeFeo said. "We believe there's no one more powerful to spread the president's message" than people on the street.
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