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An update on Republican charges that Democratic 527s are accusing President Bush of “poisoning pregnant women.”

I ran into Bush campaign chairman Gov. Marc Racicot this morning after I picked up my convention credentials. So I asked him what 527 ads he was referring to as accusing President Bush of “poisoning pregnant women.”

Racicot told me that he believed he was referring to ads on mercury run by the Sierra Club. You can see the
scripts of those ads and RNC analysis of them here — scroll down to the Sierra Club ads from April. You be the judge of whether that’s an accurate characterization of what they say.

On top of that, the ads don’t even seem to have been funded by a 527. A Sierra Club spokesperson this afternoon told me that those ads were funded by Sierra’s regular 501c3.

Gov. Racicot is going to be interviewed by every TV show under the sun in the next four days. Ya think maybe someone could ask him about this?

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