Wadhams Uses RK as an excuse to break agreement

By: Matt in VA
Published On: 10/18/2006 5:51:21 PM

I don't know if this has been blogged yet, but it's very troubling and deserves some thought from both bloggers and campaign workers. From National Journal's Hotline: (Subscription required)


The League of Women Voters "demanded" 10/17 that Allen "pull a campaign ad in which the league says he improperly uses footage from" the 10/9 debate the group hosted. Allen and Webb's campaigns "agreed not to use clips from the debate in their campaign ads." Allen spokesperson Dick Wadhams "said the ad wouldn't be pulled" saying that Webb "broke the agreement first" because the Raising Kaine blog "provided links to the debate footage." But, League voter development dir. Anne Kanter "said the blog linked to a youtube.com video that showed the entire debate, rather than clips that could be used out of context" (AP/DC Examiner, 10/17).

Obviously, Wadhams is flagellating the truth here, but what's interesting is the identification of RK as an extension of the Webb campaign and the seeming acceptance of the Hotline, the AP, and the Dc Examiner to accept that basis. Doing so makes anything written by a frontpager, if not any blogger on RK, fodder for the Allen campaign. What do you think? If this eqivocation between the Webb campaign and RK is quietly accepted, what does that mean for local political blogging, RK, and campaigns' involvement in the blogosphere? Will any blogger decide to do anything about it?

Comments



Go here (DanG - 10/18/2006 5:58:33 PM)
I posted a little bit on this ealier:
http://www.raisingka...


thanks DanG (Matt in VA - 10/18/2006 7:59:59 PM)
sorry to repeat.


THIS is what George Allen's campaign thinks (Lowell - 10/18/2006 6:02:16 PM)
Virginians care about?  Like, more than:

*Iraq
*Education
*Health Care
*Corruption in Washington, DC
*Embryonic stem cell research
*The out-of-control budget deficit
*The out-of-control Executive Branch?

If the Allen campaign thinks that blogs and their relationship (or lack thereof) to political campaigns should be on this list, they are totally out of touch with Virginia voters.  But don't anyone tell them!!!  LOL