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Doesn”t Toddie's wife work for the Dems ?

Kristian Denny Todd communications professional and cofounder along with Steve Jarding and Jessica Vanden Berg of Maverick Strategies and Mail providing direct mail and consulting services for Democratic candidates and progressive causes.

Kristian is a seasoned communications professional and a veteran of numerous successful Democratic campaigns. She recently served as Senior Communications Strategist to U.S. Senator Jim Webb’s 2006 victory in Virginia where she directed all earned and paid media strategy on behalf of the candidate. Webb’s victory tipped the control of the U.S. Senate back to the Democrats.

PS - While in college, Todd worked for the 1992 presidential campaign of Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)

So, in 2006 Chuck Todd’s wife & company hired Allen’s “macaca” tracker.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10406123

Monday, October 16, 2006
Internet cams snare politicians
Reuters

WASHINGTON - Want to catch a senator napping during a congressional hearing? Or letting a possible racial slur slip out at a campaign rally? Then log on to Internet video sharing web sites like YouTube. com - the latest weapon in U. S. politics where a candidate’s missteps can be viewed by hundreds of thousands of people. Political campaigns for the Nov. 7 congressional elections have sent out mass e mails with links to videos of opponents in unscripted, often embarrassing, situations. Some campaigns have even dispatched young staffers known as “trackers” armed with video cameras. Their sole job is to track a rival candidate’s every move and make sure their cameras are rolling in case the politician makes a gaffe. Republican Sen. George Allen of Virginia got some unwanted publicity when at a political rally he pointed to a tracker sent by rival James Webb’s campaign and called the young man a “ macaca” - an African monkey and sometimes a racial slur. The video of Allen’s remarks to S. R. Sidarth, a 20 year old U. S. college student, spread swiftly on the Internet, drew the attention of Democratic activists and boosted Webb’s campaign.

“If you guys had written it down, it wouldn’t have had nearly the impact,” Webb campaign spokesman Kristian Denny Todd told Reuters. “ But what you saw with the video was, you saw his demeanor, the way he repeated it, the way he did it laughingly. That’s stuff that can’t be captured in words. People have got to see it for themselves.”

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http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/doh/2006/08/major_senate_ra.html

Jim Webb hired a tracker to go around and videotape George Allen at all public events ike all campaigns do.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2933745/posts

On Wednesday morning, Chuck Todd played the audio of Obama’s speech from 1998 on his show The Daily Rundown, 4 hours before appearing on Andrea Mitchell Reports who refused to play the clip for “authenticity” reasons.

It took less than 12 hours after it was published online at the website of leftist magazine Mother Jones for a video secretly recorded at a Mitt Romney fundraiser in May to appear all over NBC and MSNBC. The heavily-edited video, obtained by the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, has been a staple of MSNBC coverage the past two days.