JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri Republican Party
today called on Claire McCaskill and other members of the statewide
Democratic Party to join fellow Democrat Gov. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania in
condemning a racially-charged flier designed to mislead the African-American
community about Republican commitments to getting out the vote.

Fliers being
distributed in African-American communities by America Coming Together (ACT)
contain a picture of civil rights riots in the 1960s above the headline:
"This is what they used to do to keep us from voting." The flier, which
has been defended by ACT in Missouri, also falsely accuses Republicans of
putting phony police at polling places in African-American communities and
making African-Americans stand in line for hours on Election Day.

Rendell, in
an interview on ABC This Week With George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, called
the flier in Missouri "over the top" and added that it "should be pulled."
(This Week, ABC News, 10/17/04)

The flier
being distributed by ACT, which is aligned with Democrats, was released just
days after the discovery of a 66-page Democratic National Committee (DNC)
Election Day manual that encourages Democrat poll workers to "launch a
pre-emptive strike" on voter intimidation charges, even where none exist.

"Claire McCaskill, Rebecca Cook, Robin Carnahan, Mark
Powell and Jay Nixon along with the Missouri Democratic Party should condemn
these lies designed to scare African-American voters with political smear
tactics of the worst kind," said Paul Sloca, communications director
for the Missouri Republican Party. "This is the most
desperate and misleading attempt yet by Democrats to deceive voters. Claire
McCaskill and her fellow Democrats must step forward and condemn these
messages of divisiveness."