Jun 17, 2004 / 22:00 pm
Washington Times reporter Julia Duin wrote that Mara Vanderslice, the Kerry campaign’s director of religious outreach, is no longer permitted to talk to the press after a Catholic League’s news release described her as a “far left-wing activist who has spoken at rallies held by the notoriously anti-Catholic group, ACT UP.”
According to Kerry spokeswoman Allison Dobson “it is extremely unfortunate and regretful that John Kerry’s political opponents would attack a person of faith in this way.”
Catholic League president William Donohue responded on Thursday saying that “is disingenuous of the Kerry campaign to blame me for simply disclosing who Mara Vanderslice is.”
“They just don’t get it. The Kerry campaign hires a 29 year-old ultra-leftist who consorts with anti-Catholic bigots and the Catholic League is supposed to take this lying down? And if Vanderslice is so innocent, why have they gagged her? How is a director of outreach supposed to function if he or she is being muzzled?”