Leaked Blumenthal Email Shows Campaign Soliciting Dirt

Weasel Zippers ^ | 10/23/10 | Ben Smith

[Beckwith]

No low is too low for a guy who falsely claimed to have served in combat during the Vietnam war…

(Politico)- A source this morning forwards on an e-mail this morning from inside Attorney General Dick Blumenthal’s campaign for Senate, in which his aides discuss tarring Linda McMahon in cooperation with Planned Parenthood.

The e-mail’s subject line is: “Worst of WWE + women photos.”

“Hey all — Grossman is looking for mysoginistic photos of women and WWE. Planned Parenthood wants to hit LM hard on it,” press staffer Marcy Stech e-mailed seven other aides to the campaign and the State Democratic Party. “What do we got?”

“Grossman” is the Democratic consultant Andrew Grossman, and the e-mail seems to raise the question of whether the campaign is coordinating with Planned Parenthood, an outside group.

A spokesman for Linda McMahon, Ed Patru, accused Blumenthal of crossing the line.

“This is clear evidence that Dick Blumenthal’s campaign is 110 percent in the gutter, orchestrating a potentially illegal coordinated campaign to dig up dirt on women for the purposes of attacking another woman. It’s utterly appalling that this is what Blumenthal’s campaign is focused on while nearly 10 percent of the state is unemployed,” he said in an e-mail.

The full e-mail is after the jump.

Subject: Worst of WWE + women photos Date:Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:50: From: [Marcy Stech] To: Catherine Algeri, Pat McHugh, Brian Farnkoff, Dan Morrocco, Jon Donnenberg, Ty Matsdorf, Kate Hansen

Hey all — Grossman is looking for mysoginistic photos of women and WWE. Planned Parenthood wants to hit LM hard on it.

What do we got?

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

[Condor51]

These RATS are STOO-PID^™ beyond comparison...

• “Hey all — Grossman is looking for mysoginistic photos of women and WWE.."

  1) 'mysoginistic' is misspelled. Its: misogynistic.
  2) They're using misogynistic in the wrong context;
  'misogynistic; having or showing a hatred and distrust of women"

  I haven't watched WWE (or WWF) in eons, but 'hatred or distrust of women' is the LAST thing they're about. They use Babes for 'eye candy'. Nothing wrong with that unless you look like Helen Thomas and are outright jealous.

• "What do we got?"

  Unfreaking believable? 'What we got'? We apparently 'got' STOO-PID^™
  Besides ghetto trash & Rappers who the heck talks like that!

Whomever wrote that nonsense should be fired for being a moron.

No offense meant to morons.

[no dems]

Thanks for the input. I just went to Amazon.com and ordered “Confessions of an Advertising Man.”

Thanks again.

[no dems]

Oh please, everybody knows Little Dick had oodles of training as a Viet vet

Hey, there's no need to attack his anatomy.

[hampdenkid]

My pleasure. I think you will find it not only instructive, but thoroughly enjoyable. It helped launch my career, and I have been very blessed in it. By the way, once you finish Confessions, if you wish to learn more about the gifted Mr. Ogilvy, you might want to grab The King of Madison Avenue by former O&M chairman Kenneth Roman. It's a fascinating bio.

[LottieDah]

“Isn’t Linda McMahon Pro-Choice?

Why would Planned Parenthood want to hit a Pro-Choice woman?”

Why? Linda McMahon is running on the Republican line. That automatically makes her a target.

[Liz]

Blumenthal supporter.

"I'm into sexual experimentation like the idea I got from Planned Parenthood.
Attach sex toys to a saber saw blade, then high-power my partner."