Crawford Texas News....

John Kerry's hometown newspaper endorses Bush
October 4, 2004

The following is the endorsement of President George W. Bush by the Lowell Sun in Lowell, Massachusetts...John Kerry's hometown. Too bad the national media did not report this, but chose to promote the Lone Star Iconoclast's endorsement instead. By the way, the Sun is actually published in Lowell and is a much larger newspaper.


Endorsement: George W. Bush for president

http://www.crawford-texas.org/id9.html

By the way the Lone Star Iconoclast paper that claims to be Bush's hometown paper is actually published in Clifton Texas.

"Most of the editorial board on the Iconoclast is liberal. Leon Smith started the paper after George Bush was elected in 2000. He also runs the Clifton paper, and started up a paper in Valley Mills, which quickly folded."

"After a while, though, it became apparent that something else was going on. Shortly after the Democrats began their drive to unseat George Bush, a group came to town and bought an old house. They called it the Crawford Peace House. The house serves as a meeting place for people who want to have demonstrations and parades against the President. None of the people associated with the Peace House are residents of Crawford, and all they really bring to the area are headaches. From my perspective, they're the same bunch of sixties radicals who now use bandanas to cover up bald spots and haven't done anything since 1967 except look for things to protest and a camera to photograph them doing it. The Iconoclast started giving gushing coverage to the Peace House. There were almost weekly stories. The founder was called "a visionary." Most people I talk to hate the Peace House. But to read the Iconoclast, you'd think the Peace House was the only going concern in town. Other events started to crowd the pages of the Iconoclast. When a group of Nader supporters came to town, the paper gave it more coverage than they had the previous year's football playoff games. One photo showed a man with long hair and a beard holding up a Viet Nam Veterans Against the War sign. Another showed a float of a grinning George Bush holding a missile."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1233860/posts

"Bush's Hometown Spurns Editorial
October 04, 2004
By Richard Williamson

DALLAS About a dozen advertisers in President Bush's hometown of Crawford, Texas, have cancelled ads in The Lone Star Iconoclast after the tiny local newspaper endorsed Sen. John Kerry, according to its publisher."
http://199.249.170.191/aw/regional/southwest/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000652908

"Smith is majority owner of the Iconoclast, the Record of nearby Clifton and the Bosque Globe. He's also the mayor of Clifton and a Democrat who was defeated twice in campaigns for the Texas House of Representatives"
www.mysanantonio.com/news/texas/ stories/MYSA093004.1A.crawford.d0640b14.html