GOP AIDE BUSTED FOR FAKE BLOG POSTS ON LIBERAL SITES

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ACTIVE Tue Sep 26, 06 - Sun Jun 21, 09

GOP aide busted for fake blog posts on liberal sites

09/25/2006 @ 10:46 am
Filed by RAW STORY/Roll Call

Liberal bloggers in New Hampshire busted an aide to Rep. Charles Bass (R-N.H.) who was posing as a liberal blogger on such blogs as Blue Granite, NH-02 Progressive and others. Bass’ office admitted culpability to HOH and said the staffer would be “appropriately disciplined.”

The unnamed aide to Bass — who, like many others in his party, faces a tough re-election fight — was routinely trolling liberal New Hampshire political blogs calling himself “IndyNH” and more commonly IndieNH, pretending to be a progressive.

Finally, after noticing that lots of things he said just didn’t add up, a couple of the bloggers traced IndieNH’s IP address to the House of Representatives.

And they thought, “How many offices in the U.S. House would be interested in one race in New Hampshire?” The answer: Very few. Probably only one.

Laura Clawson, who runs the Blue Granite blog and writes as “Miss Laura,” told HOH that she and another blogger easily traced IndieNH’s IP address to the House server. They could even see the searches Mr. or Ms. IndieNH was doing to gather opposition research on Bass’ challenger, Paul Hodes (D), such as “Hodes and gay marriage” and “Hodes and taxes.”

The poseur had raised suspicions among liberal bloggers after he pooh-poohed a recent poll showing Bass tied with Hodes and suggested that Democrats should not waste any more time or money on the Hodes race and instead should invest their resources in other races.
“I am going to look at the competitive race list to figure out where to send another mydd.com/netroots donation and maybe help out in other ways,” IndieNH posted. “Maybe CT or NY for me — they are at least close by. Anyone interested in pooling NH efforts for some of those races? Maybe we could even go help out for a few days in buses or something in November?”

After Clawson posted a notice on her site informing IndieNH that he (or she — Clawson wasn’t sure) had been rooted out as a GOP aide in Bass’ office, the postings ceased.

“It’s a safe bet that Bass staffers are the only people on the House network who spend their days reading blogs on the district and running Internet searches on Paul Hodes,” said Hodes spokesman Reid Cherlin. “I guess when you roll over on the big issues you end up with a lot of time on your hands — but I’m pretty sure the taxpayers meant those computers to be used for legislating, not campaigning.”

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Does this tend to add to your doubts about the Republican's level integrity?

Yes, unfortunately, this sort of behavior seems very Republican
No, cheating and conniving during a campaign is the American Way
All politicians are this slimy, not just Republicans


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COMMENTS:
Well, if the voting is way skewed in Apologia comments, we'll know the guy still has internet access. lol
by Cathexis on Tue Sep 26, 06 7:47am [+]

Voted : Yes, unfortunately, this sort of behavior seems very Republican
Ha! I'm so glad the moron got caught. Losers.
by Beauregard on Tue Sep 26, 06 7:51am [+]

Voted : No, cheating and conniving during a campaign is the American Way
There was asimilar bit of chicanery here in Jawja during the Democratic gubernatorial campaign. Mark Taylor's Wikipedia sire was constantly being altered by a staffer on his opponent Cathy Cox's staff. The guy was forced to resign, and the act created such a rift between the cams that Jimmy Carter himself had to negotiate a truce. Kinda sad to behold, all in all.
by Truthseeker013 on Tue Sep 26, 06 9:39am [+]






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