Democratic Party Chairman Joe Cryan

Cryan Calls on Kean Jr. To Investigate 'Swift Boat Internet Scandal'

Campaign of Lies & Dirty Tricks Acting Like 'Karl Rove With A Keyboard'

Trenton - Tom Kean Jr. should immediately investigate his own campaign for the dirty tricks and deceit of the Swift Boat Internet scandal, the chairman of the Democratic Party said on Thursday after Kean Jr's campaign was caught lying about fake Internet postings.

"Tom Kean Jr. has lied about everything from his support for George Bush to producing a Swift Boat film to smear Bob Menendez," said Joe Cryan, State Democratic Party Chairman. "Now his campaign has been caught with their fingers on the keyboard and, out of habit, they lie about it. Tom Kean Jr. should investigate his own campaign and come clean with the evidence."

Chairman Cryan said the episode is symptomatic of a campaign that is following instructions from Washington Republicans to avoid the issues and smear Democratic opponents with malicious personal attacks.

"This is Karl Rove with a keyboard," said Chairman Cryan. "Not only does he take money from Karl Rove, he also follows the Rove Playbook of Deceitful Dirty Tricks. Tom Kean Jr. will say anything and deny everything, but he keeps getting caught."

Chairman Cryan said that the Kean Jr campaign "needs is a massive infusion of the truth and Tom Kean Jr. is the only one who can make it happen."

"His attempt to dismiss the significance of this incident is just another in a pattern of campaign abuses that include their conduct in the campaign and their deceptions on the issues," exclaimed Chairman Cryan. "He may talk like a 'reformer' but he acts like a hypocrite."

Chairman Cryan said that an internal investigation of the "electronic paper trail" would document the campaign's role in the fake Internet postings and that the findings should be made public by Kean Jr.'s campaign.

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