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Jan. 9, 2001

When President-elect Bush named Senator John Ashcroft as his nominee for Attorney General, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Patricia Ireland started a radical smear campaign attacking Ashcroft. Setting the stage for conservative nominees, the left is trying to defeat Ashcroft and scare Bush into only appointing liberals to the Cabinet or the courts. RADICAL ATTACKS ON INTEGRITY   Because Ashcroft is pro-life, NARAL is mischief-making with pro-abortion ads telling women that their right to "choose" is under attack. Planned Parenthood has launched a media and website campaign questioning his integrity. They have no example to cite to demonstrate his failure to enforce the law. The feminists are attacking Ashcroft solely because he is pro-life. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson's claims regarding Ashcroft's opposition to black judicial nominee Ronnie White are unsubstantiated. Ashcroft, a majority of the Senate, every Republican Senator, the National Sheriffs Association, and the Missouri Federation of Chiefs of Police opposed White's nomination to the federal bench. White was defeated based on his record of judicial activism and lone dissent to overturn the death-penalty conviction of a four-time murderer who killed three law-enforcement officers and the wife of a sheriff. Ashcroft is tough on criminals, unlike Judge White. READY TO LEAD THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT  Even though Ashcroft is the first Attorney General-designee in U.S. history who has served as a state Attorney General, Governor, and U.S. Senator, the left continues to make baseless attacks and question whether he will uphold the law. He is known as a man of impeccable character and has a strong record on crime. The left is attacking Ashcroft just because he is conservative. Ashcroft has demonstrated leadership through chairing the National Association of Attornerys General, the National Governors Association, and the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution. His experience as a lawyer and public servant has prepared him for cleaning up the Justice Department and restoring America's confidence in the rule of law. ACTION ITEMS  Confirmation hearings are scheduled to begin on Tuesday, January 16 at 1:30 pm, which means that Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) will oversee the hearings as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Send letters-to-the-editor in support of Ashcroft to every local, state, and national newspaper or magazine. (sample letter-to-the-editor - Suggested Publications) Urge your Senators to publicly support Ashcroft for Attorney General and condemn the radical attacks on his character.

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