http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/dirtytricks/ en-us Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:03:03 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409387/posts A 2006 endorsement and robocall from the Brady Campaign isn’t the kind of thing Republican Danny Tarkanian wants coming up in his 2010 bid to unseat Nevada's senior Sen. Harry Reid, a Democrat who won an endorsement from the National Rifle Association in his last election. But Mr. Tarkanian has only one person to blame: his mom. The Tarkanian campaign initially dismissed questions about the little-noticed 2006 Brady Campaign endorsement Mr. Tarkanian received in his unsuccessful race for secretary of state in 2006. (PDF HERE.) The Brady Campaign also recorded robocalls urging Nevada voters to support him. (Audio script transcribed... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409387/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:03:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405532/posts Lawyers for David Kernell, who is charged with hacking into Sarah Palin's webmail and posting her messages on the internet, are now claiming that their client's computer was infected with spyware. According to The Register: The contention may be used at trial to support arguments that the 21-year-old student son of a Tennessee Democrat politician was not personally responsible for the hack on a Yahoo! account maintained by the former Alaskan governor, which was traced back to an IP address used by Kernell. [...] Palin described the incident as hugely disruptive to the Republican presidential campaign in her recently published book.... Texas for Sarah Palin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405532/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:49:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2376998/posts Chicago Style dirty tricks have it New Jersey, the Democratic Party is waging a robocall campaign in support of the Independent Candidate for Governor Christopher Daggett trying to peel off votes from Republican Candidate Chris Christie and help incumbent Jon Corzine. Larry Powers, a Bridgewater resident and member of that town's Republican committee, said he got the same call today. Powers said he suspected Democrats are aiming the Daggett calls at Somerset County Republicans who may have been inclined to back Daggett or write in Steve Lonegan's name before Lonegan appeared with Christie at a rally in Flemington Saturday. Daggett... politicernj/The lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2376998/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 00:47:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376979/posts The Democratic State Committee now admits paying for a robocall to Somerset County voters that slams Republican Chris Christie and promotes independent gubernatorial candidate Christopher Daggett. A Democratic spokeswoman says the party’s chairman, Joe Cryan, was not aware of the robocalls when he denied that the state committee had anything to do with them yesterday afternoon. Cryan, who told PolitickerNJ.com yesterday afternoon that the Democratic State Committee had “absolutely” nothing to do with the call, could not immediately be reached for comment. The call angered Republicans and further fueled conspiracy theories that Daggett is in cahoots with the Corzine camp.... PolitickerNJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376979/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 00:18:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2374619/posts Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s Senate campaign is accused of breaking campaign finance law by ghost-writing a negative website about his opponent in the Republican primary race. At issue is the new site, TruthAboutRubio.com, which launched this week and features hits on Crist primary opponent Marco Rubio, including suggesting Rubio's campaign was behind a video comparing Crist to Adolf Hitler. Redstate.com blogger Erick Erickson has been on the case, after a reader ran down the source code from the site. There, Erickson found a tag that appears to be connected to a longtime Crist adviser, Rich Heffley. Heffley is a Crist... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2374619/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:03:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374233/posts Talk about desperation. Charlie Crist has set up a fake website to cover the “truth” about Marco Rubio.. Why do I call it a fake website?The website has blog posts time stamped all the way back to 2007 even thought it was only created yesterday. (http://truthaboutrubio.com/) It tries to tie Marco Rubio to a Hitler video parody of Charlie Crist — a video Rubio condemned upon finding out about it (he should have gone after it for a lack of comedic value other than the sun tan jab), but that this Charlie Crist backed site is fixated on. Funny how... Red State http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374233/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:32:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348547/posts LEVELAND -- East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer responds to racy photos sent to various media outlets. "Are you all part of the Eric Brewer for governor campaign? You need a sex scandal if you want to get to the next level," Brewer said to reporters as he arrived at his campaign headquarters on Euclid Avenue for a Thursday morning news conference. Mayor Brewer answered no questions, but talked to reporters about potentially embarrassing pictures released to the media days before the city's mayoral election on Tuesday. "I apologize to the residents of East Cleveland for the embarrassment my opponent's gutter... WJW-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348547/posts#comment Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:11:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347625/posts Intentionally misspell a word? Yup, that's the word we get from our Washington correspondent Jamie Dupree. Jamie was talking with a fellow reporter on his way into the Capitol today when an employee of the congress joined in. Can't remember just what office Jamie said this person works in, but it deals with drafting legislation. Anyway ... she revealed to Jamie that sometimes when she's preparing the legislation to be printed and uploaded to the Internet she is asked to intentionally misspell words. Why? So that those words - key words - won't be found when someone uses a search... Nealz Nuze http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347625/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:49:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2309922/posts What are the chances that during the up coming Taxpayer March on Washington that Obama's thugs will arrange for a “Reichstag Fire” incident to take place? It would fit in prefect with the playbook that Obama his thugs and the DNC are using now and the media would be quick to blame the anti-Obama 'thugs', 'mobs' and racist. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2309922/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 20:59:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290633/posts From The Sunday Times July 12, 2009 White House ‘dirty tricks’ torpedo Palin Sarah Baxter in Washington Sarah Palin, the former vice-presidential candidate, has accused members of President Barack Obama’s administration of a dirty tricks campaign to derail her political career. Palin’s bizarre announcement that she would quit her post as governor of Alaska on July 26 stunned political friends and foes and has been greeted with derision by a growing number of prominent Republicans. Some conservative insiders have accused the charismatic mother-of-five of succumbing to “paranoia”. Among the many explanations for her abrupt departure – from an alleged desire... London Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290633/posts#comment Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:09:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287079/posts I've received a lot of email...that suggests that the libertarian-conservative Right couldn't possibly do to the Left or the Republican Establishment what they've done to Sarah Palin. A few of my correspondents have suggested that it would be immoral, which indicates a lack of imagination. The majority have asked, in one way or another, "How?" Here's how: a simple, easy-to-follow algorithm for making room for good people and the ideas of freedom in American politics once more: Pick a single target. It could be an elected or appointed official, or it could be some spokesvermin who merely flacks for anti-American... Eternity Road http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287079/posts#comment Tue, 7 Jul 2009 06:43:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232690/posts Gordon Brown is today engulfed in crisis after a key aide resigned and the Tories threatened legal action over explosive leaked emails discussing how to smear senior Conservatives, including David Cameron's wife, Samantha, with rumours about their private lives. Damian McBride, one of the prime minister's closest advisers, quit over his exchange with the Labour blogger Derek Draper, in which the two discussed setting up a website to air scurrilous allegations about opponents, including unfounded allegations about affairs between leading opposition MPs. The idea was still being actively discussed until a fortnight ago, the Observer has learned. ..... Among the... The Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232690/posts#comment Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:44:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211485/posts The story has made the rounds of Washington, D. C., as an example of Rahm Emanuel’s unforgiving approach to politics. Emanuel, now President Obama’s chief of staff, once mailed a dead fish to a pollster because Emanuel believed a polling mistake helped cost his candidate the election. [snip] Emanuel was the top staff member at the committee charged with electing Democrats to the House. [snip] So after the campaign, Emanuel told the New Yorker, he had a company that specializes in unusual forms of revenge send the fishy message to the pollster. [snip] The Buffalo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211485/posts#comment Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:46:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177845/posts When Michael Steele ran for Maryland's open U.S. Senate in 2006, his backers hired 300 mostly poor African-Americans from Philadelphia -- most if not all of them unemployed, many of them homeless -- fed them doughnuts and then packed the crew onto Trailways buses for an Election Day trip that would make a bit of political history. The buses, which were draped in banners for Steele and Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich, headed across the state line into Maryland, where the day laborers were dispatched to predominantly African-American neighborhoods of the city of Baltimore and populous Prince George's County. They spent... Madistan.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177845/posts#comment Wed, 4 Feb 2009 01:50:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168345/posts WASHINGTON, (christiansunite.com) -- Today leaders of the Susan B. Anthony List responded to the recent discovery of a plot by liberal internet activists to attack www.teamsarah.org , a community dedicated to advancing the values that Sarah Palin represents in the political process: "Team Sarah recently uncovered a plot by liberal activists to frame our community for harboring hate speech and bigotry," said Emily Buchanan, Executive Director of the Susan B. Anthony List and Team Sarah Site Administrator. "Liberal extremists at www.somethingawful.com concocted a plot to join Team Sarah under false pretenses and intentionally provoke our members by posting incendiary and... Christians Unite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168345/posts#comment Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:06:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2124958/posts OAKDALE — At least two Spanish-language ballots were pre-marked for Barack Obama at a rural Oakdale precinct Tuesday morning, causing election officials to confiscate and inspect all the blank ballots. "I consider this extremely serious," said Lee Lundrigan, Stanislaus County clerk and registrar of voters. "We've sent an additional person to the precinct, and everyone is now watching each other." The incident happened about 9:20 a.m. at the River Oak Grace Community Church polling place on Rodden Road just north of Oakdale. Hector Parra, who doesn't speak English, was handed a Spanish-language ballot, which he took to the voting station.... The Modesto Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2124958/posts#comment Tue, 4 Nov 2008 20:26:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120435/posts We know that the MSM is actively working as the PR department for the Obama campaign and to elect DemoRats across the country at every level so the issue isn't will they do something to try to damage McCain rather what will they do. They tried it against Bush and they are more desperate them ever. Let's break it down by Print: NT Times, Newsweek, Time, and then all other print media. Broadcast: one lump other than NBC and it's child MSNBC and then the interent: take your pick. Personally I think each type of media will try something and... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120435/posts#comment Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:13:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118207/posts Toledo police clerk charged in Joe The Plumber snooping case; Update: Snooper was doing a favor for a reporter; Joe may sue By Michelle Malkin • October 28, 2008 04:49 PM Scroll for updates… Just in: The Toledo Police Department confirms that one of its records clerks has been charged with performing an unlawful search of Joe The Plumber’s records. That makes two Ohio government employees identified in the snooping case. (Obama donor Helen Jones-Kelly, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, approved a separate search. More are being investigated.) WNWO reports: Toledo Police have confirmed that... Michelle Malkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118207/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:10:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119153/posts Tax, welfare info also sought on McCain ally A state agency has revealed that its checks of computer systems for potential information on "Joe the Plumber" were more extensive than it first acknowledged. Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, disclosed today that computer inquiries on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher were not restricted to a child-support system. The agency also checked Wurzelbacher in its computer systems to determine whether he was receiving welfare assistance or owed unemployment compensation taxes, she wrote. Jones-Kelley made the revelations in a letter to Ohio Senate President Bill M. Harris, R-Ashland,... Columbus Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119153/posts#comment Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:45:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118352/posts Imagine that tens of thousands of mailers were sent out to potential identity thieves with your social security number on it, as well as your wife's. If you're Republican Congressman Bill Sali (R-Id.) you needn't imagine. The Idaho Democratic Party, desperate to knock off the Conservative stalwart, sent out a copy of a tax lien that Sali had against him twenty years ago with his social, as well as his wife's, exposed on the mailer. According to the Spokesman Review, State Democratic Executive Director Jim Hansen defended the ad saying, "He's a public figure, it's a public document. If he... Renew America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118352/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:48:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117860/posts The last time "plumbers" were as prominent in national politics as accidental celebrity Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher, they were a team of political operatives caught breaking into Democratic headquarters at the Watergate Hotel. This time, however, it may be the real plumber whose privacy is being invaded: Ohio's inspector general is investigating why Wurzelbacher's records in several government databases were accessed shortly after he became the official everyman of the 2008 presidential race. ... read more ars technica http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117860/posts#comment Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:45:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117246/posts Her Excuse? "Oh, We Always Do That" Confirmed: Max Donor to Obama Ace Of Spades HQ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117246/posts#comment Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:33:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2115902/posts OK so a lot of people, including myself and even the McCain campaign itself, were punked by Ashley Todd. Not good. And yes we've had a lot of posts on this subject, but let me add one more and trust me, there is a payoff at the end: From the Post-Gazette: Once she had told the story to police, "she told lie after lie and the situation compounded to where we are right now," said Lt. Kraus. He added that Ms. Todd showed no remorse for her actions but was angry with the media, saying they blew the story out... AOL Political Machine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2115902/posts#comment Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:39:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2115498/posts Rudy Giuliani suggests Obama campaign illegally accessed Joe Wurzelbacher's records. McCain Campaign Insinuates Joe the Plumber's Private Records Were Illegally Breached as "Political Retribution" by the Obama Campaign, Compares it to Watergate The Columbus Dispatch reports that "state and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about 'Joe the Plumber,'" the nickname of Joe Wurzelbacher. ABC NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2115498/posts#comment Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:43:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114402/posts <p>A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter "B" scratched on her face in a politically inspired attack, police said Friday.</p> <p>Ashley Todd, 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, admitted Friday that the story was false and was being charged with making a false report to police, said Maurita Bryant, the assistant chief of the police department's investigations division. Police doubted her story from the start, Bryant said.</p> Associated Press O http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114402/posts#comment Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:11:21 GMT