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Just a quick note that Rep. Steve Spratt of Greenville, who is running for the Senate seat currently occupied by Peter Bragdon, is getting a dose of the same style of mud-flinging tactics used by Bragdon's campaign against incumbent moderate Republican Andy Peterson two terms ago. Landrigan has some of the details in the Telegraph, which also ran more recently in other local papers (not available online).
According to Landrigan, the mailings mentioned are enthusiastically endorsed by Fergus.
Spratt has a press release here on the 'Ticker addressing the issue, along with a brief list of Bragdon's voting record on some key issues.
I haven't corroborated this chilling story from Greg Palast's website:
Obama Doesn't Sweat. He should.
by Greg Palast
In swing-state Colorado, the Republican Secretary of State conducted the biggest purge of voters in history, dumping a fifth of all registrations. Guess their color.
From the land that brought you push-polling (real push-polling!) on McCain's black child, we get the latest in ethical tactics: Fake Mormon Christmas Cards from Romney... (OK, to clarify that -- not fake like "Romney is a fake" but fake like they didn't come from Romney)
From CBS:
The card contains passages that underscore some differences between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and those of denominations that are prevalent in South Carolina.
"We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity by whom He begat our spirits as well as the spirit of Jesus His first born, and another being upon the earth by whom he begat the tabernacle of Jesus, as his only begotten in this world," reads one passage from Orson Pratt, cited on the card as an "original member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles."
The card also cites a passage on Mary's virgin birth that underscores her race. "And it came to pass that I looked and beheld the great city of Jerusalem, and also other cities. And I beheld the city of Nazareth; and in the city of Nazareth I beheld a virgin, and she was exceedingly fair and white." On the card, "fair and white" are in a bolder, larger font and on a separate line.
Sounds like a page-turner, out soon from Simon and Schuster--How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Law Breaker.
Allen Raymond was a Republican rising star in 2002, until "pushing the envelope" for his GOP clients landed him in a three-month sentence in jail. He has not been making his former colleagues happy since he got out--for example telling the Boston Globe that Republicans have turned so "ultra-aggressive" and "ruthless" that he feared saying no to James Tobin about jamming phones would shut him out of future business with the RNC.
The RNC, which paid millions in legal bills for Tobin, but nothing for Raymond, is no doubt regretting that decision as they wait for Raymond to publish a much longer version of his bitter memories...especially because Raymond's co-author is...
Many new voices are now asking why the Federal investigation of the NH's 2002 phone-jamming scandal moved so slowly. (Paul Krugman called it a "slow-walk.")
How long should it take the US Department of Justice--and NH's Bush-appointed US Attorney Thomas Colantuono--to investigate phone-jamming? Just for comparison, in Virginia in 2002, a GOP official was indicted in April of 2002 for a phone-crime committed in March of 2002.
If you're new to this angle, or wondering where to dig further, this post would be a very good place to start.
(Of course Sununu wants to distance himself from Gonzales. After all, he had no problems justifying Gonzales' taste for torture when he wasn't near an election cycle. - promoted by Dean)
AP has the story!
Just hours after President Bush expressed confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Sununu told the AP, "I think the president should replace him."
Interesting...Sununu was first elected to the Senate in 2002, in a close race against former Governor Jeanne Shaheen. NH's own US Attorney Thomas Colantuono (not one of those fired) has been under some scrutiny of his own for what Krugman called, in the March 12 NYT, a "slow-walk" of the phone-jamming case.
