The latest in a long line of Democratic Party smears is an anti-Randy Graf site at tooextremeforaz . org (that page is actually a frame coming from www.azdem . org/tooextremeforaz). At the bottom, it says it's paid for by the Arizona Democratic Party, but considering the pro-illegal immigration contents it could have been paid for by the GOP. Part of it appears to have been repurposed from a recent DNC smear (grandoldpetroleum . com/a/2006/09/whatever_it_tak.php); other parts are even more extreme bits and pieces from the SPLC and other groups.

Their first section is called "Randy Graf has clear connections with white supremacists", and it leads off with the David Duke smear already discussed here and answered by Graf here (votegraf . com/randygraf/rumors.php). The last page also answers their cross burning smear.

Then, consider these three simple declarative sentences:

Prop. 200 was brought to the ballot by an organization called Protect Arizona Now (PAN). Graf was a senior advisor to PAN. The chair of PAN's advisory board was Dr. Virginia Abernethy, a retired Vanderbilt University professor [and admitted "white separatist"].

The only problem with this smear is that Graf had ceased to be a senior advisor to PAN before Abernethy was asked by Kathy McKee to head the board. Following the same logic as the Democratic Party, we would hold Hubert Humphrey responsible for Howard Dean. And, based on comments (searclub . com/?page=news-article&id=664) others have made, FAIR's attempt to remove her from any leadership position, and an email of mine that she responded to, McKee could have been either a "trojan horse" or could have been intentionally intending to wreck the initiative.

Here's the sequence of events which, while the source is Wikipedia, not only fits my recollection but is verified by the next article (answers . com/topic/arizona-proposition-200):

During the signature gathering campaign, Kathy McKee accused Rusty Childress, a Phoenix-area car dealer and PAN's treasurer, of withholding funds and petitions from PAN, and fired Childress. Childress sued McKee over custody of PAN's signatures and funds, but the court ruled in favor of McKee. Childress and the two most prominent supporters of the initiative within the Arizona state legislature, Russell Pearce and Randy Graf, then formed a separate organization, Yes On 200. When FAIR began an independent signature gathering campaign to collect the remaining signatures needed to put the initiative on the ballot, McKee accused FAIR of attempting a hostile takeover of PAN. McKee named Virginia Abernethy the chair of PAN's national advisory board. FAIR responded by issuing a press release (prnewswire . com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=PROFPOL.story&STORY=/www/story/08-09-2004/0002228312&EDATE=MON+Aug+09+2004,+06:56+PM) calling for both McKee and Abernethy to resign from PAN, calling Abernethy's views "repulsive separatist views." Abernethy drew heated criticism for her close relationship with the Council of Conservative Citizens, a direct descendent of the White Citizens' Councils of the 1950s.

Note that that naming occurred after Graf had left to form "Yes on 200".

That sequence of events is verified by the September 16, 2004 article "Welcome to PANdemonium" (tucsonweekly . com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid%3A60588):

...But FAIR's help wasn't greeted warmly by Kathy McKee, the chair of Protect Arizona Now, who objected and distanced herself from everyone else who was helping with the effort, recalls Graf.

"We were all fired on numerous occasions from that committee, and the last contact I had with Kathy McKee was in April," Graf says.

After some cajoling, McKee and the FAIR collaborators ultimately merged their petitions, giving the PAN initiative more than enough of a cushion to make the ballot.

Since then, several new political committees have sprung up on behalf of the initiative. McKee, meanwhile, has remained chair of the Protect Arizona Now committee and found new friends to help with the effort, including Virginia Abernethy, a professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University and a self-described "white separatist."

Now that you know how misleading those three sentences were, can you trust the rest? If you aren't convinced, let's consider one more warmed-over SPLC smear, this time about the Federation for American Immigration Reform:

Between 1982 and 1994, FAIR received more than $1.2 million from the Pioneer Fund, a little-known foundation created in 1937 which openly supported Adolph Hitler.

And, the Ford Foundation was started using money from Henry Ford. And, here's a list of some Pioneer Fund grants (site:ferris.edu+ISAR+pioneer+Randolph-Macon). In the same decade they gave money to FAIR, they also gave money to: Tel Aviv University, Stanford, New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, and the Sickle Cell Disease Foundation of Greater New York.

So, can you trust what the Democratic Party is telling you?