Actually it was not a news story that you posted, at least not in the sense of a newspaper article. It was a press release by some organization dedicated to smearing Cannon. We had the same type of thing in our district in California and it backfired, big time, for the smearer. You may be hurting your candidate more than helping. Just a word of advice.
If you notice this is a last-minute smear. It's designed so that the smeared can't fight back. It indicates that the smearer thinks that he is losing and will probably lose in the end.