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MOORE CHALLENGES KATHERINE HARRIS AT FRIDAY SENATORIAL FORUM OVER HER ACCUSATIONS AGAINST SENATORIAL NELSON

Independent U.S. Senate Candidate Also Takes On Nelson' s Record at Saturday Event With Greg Palast

Spring Hill, Florida, Sunday, June 24th: Brian Moore, an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate, challenged incumbent Republican Congresswoman Katherine Harris Friday night in Sarasota, at a Disabled American Veterans political forum. Moore, along with Ms. Harris, are both running for the U.S. Senate seat presently held by incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson.

Emphasizing that she was "so conservative, while Senator Nelson has a high liberal rating," Harris addressed the DAV audience for 15 minutes, claiming that the differences between herself and Nelson would provide a clear choice for voters in November. The Republican congresswoman was followed on the podium by independent antiwar aspirant Brian Moore, who challenged her assertion that there was a significant difference between herself and Senator Nelson. Moore stated that both Nelson and Harris have supported the continuing occupation of Iraq and the Patriot Acts I and II, while virtually mirroring one another in supporting last year's bankruptcy bill, the recent $69 billion tax cut for the wealthy and legislation to permanently repeal the Estate tax. Moore also declared that he "was the candidate that most differed from Mr. Nelson, and Ms. Harris, thus, giving the voters of Florida a clearer choice."

Moore also criticized both major party candidates, Democrat Nelson and Republican Harris, for their mutual ties to big corporations and dependence on special interest money; along with their own personal wealth and insensitivity to the plight of the middle and lower income Americans.

Moore customized the second half of his presentation to address veterans issues in four areas: 1) mandatory testing for depleted uranium for soldiers returning from Iraq; 2) mandatory funding for the Veterans Administration annually, on an increasing funding basis, instead of drastic cuts occurring and being studied for further cuts by a nationwide committee of military officers from the VA; 3) greater consideration for families of soldiers who have suffered catastrophic conditions or multiple amputation (Moore suggested payments in the millions of dollars per individual case as is now standard practice in the private sector involving similar conditions from automobile accidents); and 4) for the federal government to purchase ID theft protection for every military personnel for whom VA data was recently stolen.

Saturday night, Moore attended a WMNU Radio sponsored talk at the University of Tampa, with Greg Palast as its main speaker. Moore distributed his literature and personally introduced himself to about 100 of the 500 attendees for 45 minutes before the start of the evening event. Independent candidate Brian Moore was also formally presented by the radio hosts to the general audience at the start of the evening.

Many in attendance were progressive Democrats and wholeheartedly embraced Brian's platform, but still could not get around their feelings of loyalty to the Democratic Party. Moore said he was somewhat dismayed that so many progressive Democrats appeared willing to put party before principle by supporting someone as conservative as Nelson, whose positions on the critical issues of the day are closer to the GOP and in such stark contrast to those held by most Democrats. As an independent candidate, Moore also acknowledged that he has "plenty of work ahead of him" over the next five months and recognizes, now more than ever, the importance of getting his antiwar message out to activists throughout the Sunshine State.

Moore, once again, severely criticized Bill Nelson for recently voting with the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate in rejecting two Democratic-sponsored proposals to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from war-torn Iraq.

Moore, a 63-year-old executive recruiter in the health care industry, blasted Nelson for siding with the GOP-led Senate on this critical issue. “Senator Nelson not only opposed Sen. John Kerry’s courageous amendment calling for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq by July 1 of next year, but was one of only six Democratic Senators to vote with the Republicans in opposing Michigan Sen. Carl Levin’s more cautious proposal to begin a troop pullout this year, but without a date set for completion of such a withdrawal. Nelson,” he said, “is not only on the wrong side of American public opinion on this critical issue, but is also outside the mainstream of his own party.”

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MOORE WRAPS UP FOUR-DAY CAMPAIGN SWING THROUGH PALM BEACH & MARTIN COUNTIES

 

INDEPENDENT U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE THROWS OUT FIRST PITCH IN MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL GAME

 

West Palm Beach, Florida — Brian Moore, an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate, threw out the ceremonial first pitch in last night’s minor league baseball game between the Jupiter Hammerheads and the Palm Beach Cardinals before an estimated crowd of 4,000 at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter.  Moore, who’s conducting a four-day campaign swing through Palm Beach and Martin counties, was introduced before the game as a candidate for the U.S. Senate.  Former Governor Claude R. Kirk, who served as governor of Florida from 1967-1971, was also introduced to the crowd in the pre-game festivities.  Kirk became the first Republican governor of Florida since Reconstruction, when he defeated Democrat Robert King High in the 1966 gubernatorial contest.  The former governor was attending the game with his daughter, Claudia Kirk Barto, executive director of the West Palm Beach office of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

 

    After tossing the opening pitch — a high fast-ball that sailed over the catcher’s head — Moore exchanged pleasantries and had his photograph taken with former Governor Kirk.  Moore also briefly discussed his campaign for the U.S. Senate with the former governor.  The 63-year-old Moore, a resident of Spring Hill who doubles as the manager and first baseman for a team in the Nature Coast Adult Baseball League, is one of four independent candidates challenging Democratic Senator Bill Nelson and his likely GOP opponent, Katherine Harris, in this fall's U.S. Senate race.

 

    On Sunday, Moore campaigned briefly at the Stuart Green Market and shook hands with voters while handing out campaign brochures for several hours outside a Publix grocery store in the same vicinity.  Earlier yesterday, the independent anti-war candidate had an hour-long meeting with radio station executive George E. Metcalf, President and Chief Executive Officer of WHLG 101.3FM in Stuart, Florida.  "Brian is waging a low-key, but vigorous grass-roots campaign that will eventually take him to all 67 counties in Florida," said Darcy Richardson, Moore's campaign manager.  "Brian doesn't enjoy a $13.7 million warchest like Senator Nelson, nor does he have a personal fortune of $10 million to whimsically spend on his own campaign, like Katherine Harris," Richardson said, "but he's still trying to reach as many ordinary Floridians as humanly possible.  He's pretty energetic and won't be out-hustled by any of his opponents."  Moore is winding up his four-day tour of Palm Beach and Martin counties today

 

 

Brian Moore (left)and former Gov. Claude R. Kirk at last night's game in Jupiter, Florida. (Photo by Sebastian Melgar)

 

 

with campaign stops at various shopping centers in both counties, including a brief stop at a Palm City shopping center earlier today, where he had the unique experience of witnessing the Discovery shuttle as it roared into orbit.  Moore's four-day swing through the area culminates in an appearance with some of his supporters at the Flagler Fourth of July Festival in West Palm Beach later today.

 

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MOORE CALLS FOR IMPEACHMENT OF BUSH AND CHENEY

 

INDEPENDENT U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE URGES AMERICAN PEOPLE TO REMOVE BUSH FROM OFFICE

 

Tampa, Florida:  Brian Moore, an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate, in a live one-hour television debate Saturday evening with two Republican activists on the Tampa Bay Community Network of Hillsborough County, called for President George W. Bush's and Vice President Richard Cheney immediate removal from office and encouraged the American people to push for such action as well.

 

Moore declared that both President Bush and Vice President Cheney were guilty of  high crimes and misdemeanors, when it came to deliberately misleading the American people into the war in Iraq, violating the sovereignty of a sacred nation, violating the rights of civilian and military prisoners, setting policies responsible for abusing and torturing detainees to extract information and transferring prisoners to foreign countries where international law, the Geneva Conventions, and common human decency are not respected, or practiced.

 

Moore further justified his call for impeachment of our country's leaders on grounds that the rights and freedoms of all Americans are now in serious jeopardy due to provisions of the Patriot Act, the NSA domestic spying activities, the warrant-less searches of American homes in violation of the FISA Act, and the secret data mining of the telephone and banking records of tens of millions of ordinary Americans, Moore declared.

 

In his television appearance, the feisty independent candidate asserted that America's security and safety "is more in danger now than ever before."  He said that President Bush has repeatedly demonstrated reckless behavior when it has come to foreign policy and domestic safety, and, as a result, we are now in peril from all sides, with potential crises looming in Iran, North Korea and the Middle East, not to speak of our self-imposed struggles with Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

Moore said the citizens of the United States should take back control of its destiny before wealthy leaders, who rule for economic and selfish reasons, put our country in danger of demise.

 

The  debate was billed as a non-political event, more as a discussion on the crucial issues facing the country, and was hosted by Kris Krimitsos, TV Producer, TBCN 19 & 20 of Tampa.  The two Republican participants were Bulent Arlsan, a former citizen of Turkey, and Andrew Kovics, a former president of young Republicans during his college days.

 

Topics included social security, immigration and Afghanistan.

 

During the hour-long program, Moore said that he didn't feel uncomfortable debating two Republicans simultaneously, saying that he is involved in a similar situation in

 

 

 

 

his U.S. Senate race.  "I feel like I'm running against two Republicans,” incumbent Senator Bill Nelson--masquerading as a Democrat--and Republican Congresswoman Katherine Harris," quipped Moore.

 

Moore will be participating in an antiwar demonstration in Sarasota on Sunday, July 9^th, from 11 AM to 2 PM at the Bayfront Community Center, 803 N. Tamiami Trail.  To participate, Moore cancelled his scheduled participation in his weekly Sunday, adult baseball league.

 

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MOORE CALLS FOR CEASE-FIRE IN MIDDLE EAST

Independent U.S. Senate Candidate Blames Bush Administration for Israel's Reckless Destruction of Lebanon and Gaza Strip


U.S. Senate aspirant Brian Moore (left) at today's anti-war rally
in Tampa. (Photo by Sebastian Melgar)

TAMPA, FLORIDA -- Brian Moore, an independent anti-war challenger to Democratic Senator Bill Nelson, called on President Bush and members of the U.S. Senate today to demand an immediate end to Israel's unlawful invasion of Lebanon and its massive, unwarranted destruction of civilian populations and infrastructure in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

Participating in a "Rally for Peace" sponsored by the Organization of Arab Students in Solidarity" (OASIS) in Tampa on Saturday afternoon, where over two hundred protesters of the Israeli invasion gathered, Moore said that President Bush and U.S. officials should press for an immediate end to the hostility and violence on both sides and called for immediate multilateral negotiations to achieve peace and security in the region, especially for the tens of thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese citizens who have been displaced by the Israeli assaults on those areas. Moore, who is co-founder and chairman of the Nature Coast Coalition for Peace and Justice and an outspoken opponent of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, said the current U.S. reaction to Israel's deadly and destructive behavior in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip has been an "utter disaster."

"We want peace for both countries, and that Israel should get out of Lebanon immediately," said Evi Cheaib, the organizer and leader of today's OASIS rally. In a conversation with the independent U.S. Senate hopeful, Ms. Cheaib further emphasized that the United States should call for "an immediate cease fire" for the region. She added that all countries in the Middle East "needed to be treated equally," and that Israel should not be favored over or above the other countries in that region by the United States.

"The Bush Administration's approval of Israel's violent behavior in this international crisis is indicative of this country's overwhelmingly one-sided policy in the Middle East," said Moore. "As this conflict continues to escalate, there won't be a Muslim anywhere in the world who won't be calling for Israeli blood. We have to stop the violence and bring peace to that region." Moore also called on members of the U.S. Senate, including Florida Senator Bill Nelson, to bring pressure on the Bush Administration to act in the interests of all parties involved, not just Israel. "The U.S. Senate should be exerting its moral authority by condemning Israel's aggressive military behavior," declared Moore. "Where is the leadership?" he asked.

Moore was particularly critical of the Bush Administration's slow and tepid reaction to the growing crisis in Lebanon, especially their sluggish response in safely evacuating American citizens from that increasingly dangerous and war-ravaged country. "They probably thought it was a hurricane," Moore quipped.

The independent candidate also said that a widening conflict in that region could further endanger U.S. troops in Iraq, a country now teetering on a full-scale civil war. In announcing his candidacy on May 12, the 63-year-old Moore, an executive recruiter in the health care industry, called for the immediate withdrawal of American troops and corporations from Iraq to be replaced by a UN peacekeeping force with full authority for the protection and reconstruction of that war-torn nation.

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MOORE BLASTS CUBAN-AMERICANS ON NATIONWIDE RADIO FOR "DISGUSTING" BEHAVIOR IN STREETS OF MIAMI DURING CASTRO'S ILLNESS

 

Assails Senator Bill Nelson's call to dissident Cubans to Undermine the Cuban Government

 

TAMPA, FLORIDA -- Brian Moore, an independent anti-war challenger to Democratic Senator Bill Nelson, criticized the Cuban-American community in Miami, Florida, on nationwide radio Thursday night.  Appearing on the Bob Kincaid Show, a nationally-syndicated talk radio show based in West Virginia, Moore labeled the Cuban-Americans in South Florida as "right-wing conservatives" and "hard-hearted people without souls."  Moore denounced the Cuban-Americans in Miami for cheering in the streets at the prospect of Castro's death.  Denouncing their behavior as "disgusting," Moore said that he wished they would all go back to Cuba — but wouldn't want to wish that on the Cuban people.

 

The independent senatorial candidate, who is challenging Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson in this fall's election, also criticized the incumbent for urging Cuban dissidents to "be ready to assert your independence" by undermining Fidel Castro's government at a moment when the longtime Cuban leader is perceived to be in a weakened state.  Moore, who is highly critical of Nelson's legislation calling for $80 million in aid to Cuban dissidents, told his radio audience that this was typical of Florida's ranking U.S. Senator.   "He thinks he is promoting his patriotism by kicking the Cuban leader when he is down, just because President Castro is an avowed communist."  Moore said that Nelson "always plays it safe" and only displays leadership on issues of little or no consequence.  "When it comes to the Iraq War, the Patriot Act, repealing taxes for the wealthy or the need for a national health plan for all Americans, this man is silent or bought out," he asserted.

 

During the hour-long broadcast, Moore also continued his criticism of Israel, its flagrant invasion of Lebanon and indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians.  Moore called upon leaders and citizens from the Jewish community in Florida to speak up and criticize Israel's actions. 

 

Throughout the program, the feisty dark-horse candidate railed against the two-party system, arguing that Democratic and Republicans politicians alike have been "bought off" by corporate interests and special interest groups.  In addition to sharply criticizing the Bush Administration and the Republican majority in Congress, Moore also faulted the leaderless Democrats for America's involvement in Iraq and the Patriot Act.  He also blasted both parties for advocating free trade policies and ignoring the country's growing health care crisis.  Politicians of both major parties, said Moore, lacked courage and spine when it comes to standing up for principle and representing the common good.

 

Kincaid and Moore also talked at length on the lack of ethics in America politics.  Kincaid summed up the show by stating that he thought that Brian Moore represented a "New party of conscience" for America.  "This is quickly turning into a three-way contest," said Darcy Richardson, Moore's campaign manager.  "Brian's campaign is beginning to prick the conscience of Floridians, especially those who are sick and tired of politics as usual."

 

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INDEPENDENT SENATE CANDIDATE HIGHLIGHTS UNIQUE BACKGROUND WITH SOCIAL JUSTICE GROUPS IN ORLANDO

 

Moore Shares His Antiwar and Public Health Experience, Peace Corps Work in Latin America and Studies in Franciscan Religious Order Serving the Poor 

 

Maverick Candidate Continues His Attack on Major-Party Rivals for their Hypocritical Support of Cuban-Americans

 

ORLANDO, FLORIDA -- Brian Moore, an independent anti-war challenger to Democratic Senator Bill Nelson, attended the Central Florida Social Justice Gathering at the First Unitarian Church of Orlando on Saturday (1901 E. Robertson St).  Close to fifty participants from an estimated ten central Florida counties attended the day-long conference representing such diverse groups as the Farm Workers, Code Pink Against the War, Coalition for Peace & Justice, Acorn, Quaker Peace Center, United Way, Jobs & Justice, Florida PIN, The New Earth, Poor People's  Human Rights, Marions for Peace, Peace Now Citrus, Equality, and others.

 

The Independent candidate briefly introduced himself to the group and individually met with a variety of leaders of their respective organizations who attended the event.  Moore, himself the co-founder of the Coalition for Peace and Justice in the Nature Coast area of Florida for the last four years, was an outspoken opponent of the Iraq War Resolution in 2002 and the subsequent invasion of that country.  He has also been an undaunted critic of the Patriot Act.  During the one-day summit, Moore shared his unique experiences regarding a variety of social causes, including his service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Latin America for three years and later as a consultant for a non-profit agency, where he was involved in a $3 million de-worming project that protected over one million indigent children from parasitic infections in some of the most poverty-stricken areas of Brazil, Guatemala, Colombia and the Dominican Republic.  He also spoke about his experience studying and training as a Catholic priest in the Franciscan Order, whose mission was to serve the poor in social service and spiritual matters.

 

The fiery dark-horse candidate also released a letter on Saturday to the editors of the two local newspapers in his home county of Hernando; the St. Petersburg Times and the Tampa Tribune's Hernando Today editions.  In his hard-hitting letter-to-the-editor, Moore accused Senator Bill Nelson and Congresswoman Katherine Harris, his major-party opponents in this autumn's U.S. Senate race, of hypocrisy and ineptitude.  Moore said that their "support of Cuban-Americans" during Fidel Castro's illness has been "phony and artificial" — a classic case of political pandering.  Moore added that Nelson and his likely GOP rival Katherine Harris are "using the Cuban people for their own selfish purposes, and don't give a damn about the welfare of Cuba, nor those Cuban-Americans who reside in Florida."

 

Continuing on a theme he first discussed in a nationally-syndicated radio show on Thursday evening, Moore also blasted Cuban-American leaders in Miami, not only for their "disgusting" behavior earlier this week when thousands of them danced in the streets in response to news of President Castro's life-threatening illness, but for their "un-democratic and un-American actions" as citizens of the United States over the past five decades.  Moore said Cuban-Americans have virtually "gotten away with murder, and acted like tyrants and despots, blocking, intimidating, ridiculing and besmirching the reputations of any entertainer, sports hero, or fellow countryman who dared to defend, support, compliment or take sides with Castro's government."  He also accused them of giving the same sort of treatment to anyone who has had the courage to oppose the decades-long U.S. embargo that has not only hampered the Cuban economy, but has also needlessly wrecked havoc on the health and welfare of that island nation's poor and low-income inhabitants.

 

Moore also criticized U.S. immigration policies that have given preferable treatment to Cuban immigrants and was highly critical of the Cuban-American community for virtually transforming the Miami area into a "non-American city," largely as a result of their exclusive use of the Spanish language and their arrogant treatment of people who do not speak their language or practice their culture.

 

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INDEPENDENT U.S. SENATE ASPIRANT CRITICIZES NELSON'S VOTE ON CUTTING ESTATE TAX FOR THE WEALTHY

 

Criticizes Democratic lawmaker for again voting with GOP majority; calls it "biggest giveaway" in U.S. history

 

ORLANDO, FLORIDA -- Independent U.S. Senate candidate Brian Moore yesterday sharply criticized Democratic Senator Bill Nelson for again abandoning his own party in supporting legislation designed to significantly slash the estate tax.  "This is one of the biggest giveaways to the super-rich in American history," asserted Moore, who was campaigning at a Social Justice Conference in Orlando on Saturday.  "This legislation is being financed and lobbied by eighteen of the wealthiest families in the United States, including the owners of Wal-Mart," he said.  "These affluent families stand to save $71.6 billion in taxes if this eventually becomes law."   

 

The estate tax legislation, which was tied to a modest increase in the federal minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour over a three-year period — the first such increase in nine years — fell four votes short of the sixty votes required to shut off debate and bring the bill to a vote late Thursday night.  If approved, the latest measure would have raised the estate-and-gift tax exemption to $5 million for an individual and $10 million for a married couple.  A longtime proponent of abolishing the estate tax, Nelson was one of three renegade Democrats who sided with the GOP in its efforts to permanently repeal the so-called "death tax" two months ago, legislation that would have eventually cost American taxpayers more than one trillion dollars in lost revenue. 

"Bill Nelson is clearly outside the mainstream of his own party on this issue," declared Moore.  "Even two Senate Republicans — Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and Ohio's George Voinovich — had the good sense to oppose this sham," he said.  "The fact that the Republican majority shamelessly tried to link this issue with a meager increase in the minimum wage is despicable, but the fact that Nelson went along with their charade is even worse," asserted Moore, who favors a living wage of $15 per hour and a $10 an hour minimum wage.   

 

Noting that organized labor and virtually every progressive organization in the country is strongly opposed to cutting or repealing the estate tax, the independent Senate hopeful said that slashing or abolishing the estate tax would create a permanent "hereditary class of affluence" in the United States, further dividing the nation between economic classes.  "While Congress is doing nothing for the financially-strapped middle-class in this country, they seem hell-bent on rewarding the least deserving of all — the hereditary elite," he said.  "Bill Nelson should be ashamed of himself."     

Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) has promised to bring the issue up again when Congress reconvenes in September.