Don't just delete them. Hit "Reply to all"

I have a friend at work who is very conservative. Actually, I have several friends at work who are very conservative. But this one is rather out-spoken about it. He and I get into some good natured discussions now and then about politics,  but we never get mad with each other.
 
But he is one these people who love to forward e-mails. You know. The kind of e-mails which relate wild and crazy stories about liberals, Clinton, Hillary, Kerry and now Edwards. And he has a huge mailing list. It is probably about 150 or more people, including me. I used to just shake my head and delete them. But after a while, I started replying to them. And when I hit the reply button, I hit the "Reply to all" button, which means my rebuttal went to the very same people that got the original e-mail. I figured I was going to educate not just my friend, but all of his friends also.
 
Most of the rebuttals were extremely easy to research. Because most of these wild stories have been around for quite awhile, I just went to the Snopes site and found info about most of them.
 
I thought I was going to piss some people off, and I may have, but I haven't heard from them. I have been surprised to hear from some people on the mailing list who expressed gratitude for me refuting and correcting the lies that have been told. But the biggest surprise was my friend who sent the e-mails. Instead of just continuing the practice, he is now vetting the stories with me before he sends them. He said he got tired of me demonstrating that the stories are not true. So now, he will come to me and say, I got this story or I got this e-mail. Tell me if it is true before I send it out.
 
Today, he came to me and said that he had gotten info that John Kerry had voted to raise taxes 350 times. Is it true? Check it out and let me know.
 
I was instantly skeptical. 350 times??? How could that be true. And this was one I hadn't yet heard.  So I started checking it out. I could find nothing on Snopes, so I started Googling. I came across some info from a Blog called The Common Man's Politics. I reprinted the info below.
 
The Common Man's Politics
 
Hannity's claim, that Kerry raised taxes 350 times, could not possibly be true, as there aren't even 350 tax raises on record during Kerry's tenure with the Senate (with few exceptions, tax changes are only enacted once a year
 
Kerry's record on taxes is very different than the Bush Administration is presenting – very different.
 
I counted his votes under several categories of action (listed below). Some things to note: Votes are for bills and for amendments to bills, and not all the bills voted on went on to pass into law. These are merely votes. Also, some amendments contained both tax cuts and tax increases; in those cases I put a number under both the appropriate categories (so if you add up all these numbers, it'll come out higher than the total number of votes regarding taxes).
 
Votes to change taxes:Vote to decrease taxes:
37Vote to increase taxes:
13Votes to keep taxes the same as they are:
 
Vote against a tax decrease:
55Vote against a tax increase:
9Miscellaneous:
 
To close a tax loophole: 5
To pay for mandatory spending with a tax increase, if needed: 1
 
So, the surprising thing here is that if Kerry votes to change taxes, he is more than twice as likely to cut taxes than to raise them!
 
Kerry voted 37 times to cut taxes! Furthermore, of the increases he voted for, not one of them was for an income tax on the middle class, working class, or low income families!
 
If you're an average American, Kerry has voted your way 100% of the time in regards to taxes – holding you to pay your fair share, and giving you a break when the budget allowed. If you make under 100,000 /year in taxable income, Kerry has never raised your taxes, ever. And you if you make 100,000/year or more in taxable income, Kerry has only raised your taxes once (1994) – and the biggest economic boom ever, followed.
 
This is great information, and the only place I could find it was on a Blog. I sent it to my friend.
 
Now we have to wait and see if my friend is going send out one of his mass e-mails. if he does, what will he say?