Talk:Steve Symms

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[edit] Symms and the John Birch Society

I'm going to remove the comments about Steve Symms being a member of the JBS. I've found sites listing him as a member of the Society on other websites, but nothing about him being a member on the JBS website. I'm inclined to think that if Symms was a member of the JBS, it would trumpet that. It's not shy about telling which prominent people are affiliated with it. So I'll remove the reference but if someone finds some concrete evidence, by all means please restore it. MKilMKil

[edit] 1988 campaign

Rewrote this:

In the 1988 presidential election, at the behest of Lee Atwater, Symms floated a false rumor that Kitty Dukakis, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, had burned an American flag to protest the Vietnam War, as well as a claim that Dukakis himself had been treated for a mental illness.

No one has seriously suggested that Atwater was responsible for Symms's statement about Mrs. Dukakis. The rumor about Dukakis being treated by a psychiatrist(sp?) came from the LaRouche organization and got significant media attention when Reagan made the "I'm not going to pick on an invalid" joke. Ellsworth 14:30, 29 August 2007 (UTC)