Senator John Kerry accused the Bush campaign of setting up a front group to attack his military record in Vietnam. Most of the attacks have come from a group of Vietnam veterans called the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth which formed after Kerry received the Democratic nomination. The Austin Statesman has revealed the group was organized by a Republican PR specialist from Houston named Merrie Spaeth. Spaeth formerly worked as a PR consultant to Kenneth Starr during his investigation of President Clinton. Her late husband, Tex Lezar, was Bush’s running mate for the governor’s seat in Texas in 1994. Kerry said yesterday of Bush “If he wants to have a debate about our service in Vietnam, here is my answer: “Bring it on.”