Regis Philbin
Sep 18th, 2006, 07:35 PM
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10365
Washington Prowler
Portrait of a Democrat Lady
By The Prowler
Published 9/18/2006 12:08:45 AM
No big surprise that the campaign aide to Rep. Ben Cardin, who is challenging Lt. Gov. Michael Steele for the open Maryland Senate seat, who published racist and anti-Semitic remarks on a blog, was steered to Cardin through MoveOn.org and the Democrat National Committee, says a state Democratic operative.
Cardin's senior staff on Sunday mulled putting out a story that the woman, who joined the campaign about a month ago, was believed to be a Republican plant. But after reviewing notes of the woman's hiring, they discovered that she was a Democrat Party operative. The staffer has been fired.
The woman, who composed a blog entitled, "Persuasionatrix," joined the campaign after moving to the Washington, D.C. area from Chicago, says the state party operative. "She was a low level staffer, doing minor office assistant type of jobs, nothing more important than making sure there were enough pens and notepads around the office, making coffee."
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The state party operative says that Cardin staff informed the party that they were attempting to determine what other sites and activities newer employees and full-time volunteers were involved with.
"They don't want another embarrassment like this," says the operative. "Cardin needs the black vote in this race, and this kind of thing is, needless to say, damaging."
Washington Prowler
Portrait of a Democrat Lady
By The Prowler
Published 9/18/2006 12:08:45 AM
No big surprise that the campaign aide to Rep. Ben Cardin, who is challenging Lt. Gov. Michael Steele for the open Maryland Senate seat, who published racist and anti-Semitic remarks on a blog, was steered to Cardin through MoveOn.org and the Democrat National Committee, says a state Democratic operative.
Cardin's senior staff on Sunday mulled putting out a story that the woman, who joined the campaign about a month ago, was believed to be a Republican plant. But after reviewing notes of the woman's hiring, they discovered that she was a Democrat Party operative. The staffer has been fired.
The woman, who composed a blog entitled, "Persuasionatrix," joined the campaign after moving to the Washington, D.C. area from Chicago, says the state party operative. "She was a low level staffer, doing minor office assistant type of jobs, nothing more important than making sure there were enough pens and notepads around the office, making coffee."
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The state party operative says that Cardin staff informed the party that they were attempting to determine what other sites and activities newer employees and full-time volunteers were involved with.
"They don't want another embarrassment like this," says the operative. "Cardin needs the black vote in this race, and this kind of thing is, needless to say, damaging."