The Nazz
23-05-2006, 06:06
Sometimes it bites you in the ass (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11004348&postcount=73).
One wonders if there's a power struggle quietly going on within the Democratic Party - they've been far quieter on Bush than I expected.
They are also doing some interesting infighting. Howard Dean and the DNC campaigned against Mayor Nagin, and lost. They sent millions of dollars to his opponent, and sent people to work against Nagin.
Didn't seem to work.
Ooooooops (http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Drudge_retracts_story_on_Dean_after_0522.html)
Conservative heavyweight Matt Drudge has all but retracted a story about Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean after receiving a letter from the DNC's lawyers, RAW STORY can report.
Saying he took the DNC at their word -- and declining to mention the fact he had received a letter from a DNC lawyer asking him to take the story down -- Drudge posted an update to a story claiming that Chairman Dean had intervened in the New Orleans mayoral race. His update noted that the DNC had vehemently denied the report....
The Democratic National Committee consulted its attorneys Monday after a story claimed that Dean had intervened in New Orleans' recent mayoral race.
On Sunday evening, The Drudge Report claimed that Dean threw his support behind mayoral candidate and sitting Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu (D-LA) over sitting mayor Ray Nagin. Finney said the report was "absolutely false."
Finney was amused to find her quote -- given only to RAW STORY -- in Drudge's story. She said she had not spoken to Drudge.
"That's you," she told me, referring to Drudge's latest article.
"The DNC does not as a policy get involved in Democratic primaries," Finney said. "We did have poll watchers out to make sure people weren’t disenfranchised but it wasn’t on behalf of any candidate. It’s completely outrageous."
The Committee's involvement in the New Orleans race, she said, was limited to get out the vote efforts and placing poll watchers to ensure residents got an opportunity to vote. The DNC also set up a toll-free 800 number to help displaced residents locate their polling area.
"The only thing that the DNC did was a campaign helping ensure that displaced voters had an opportunity to vote," she said. "It wasn’t in support of any candidate or frankly any party... We focused on helping people find out where they needed to get out to vote."
Yeah, got to be careful about those sources. I was wondering why he never answered my challenge on that other thread.
One wonders if there's a power struggle quietly going on within the Democratic Party - they've been far quieter on Bush than I expected.
They are also doing some interesting infighting. Howard Dean and the DNC campaigned against Mayor Nagin, and lost. They sent millions of dollars to his opponent, and sent people to work against Nagin.
Didn't seem to work.
Ooooooops (http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Drudge_retracts_story_on_Dean_after_0522.html)
Conservative heavyweight Matt Drudge has all but retracted a story about Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean after receiving a letter from the DNC's lawyers, RAW STORY can report.
Saying he took the DNC at their word -- and declining to mention the fact he had received a letter from a DNC lawyer asking him to take the story down -- Drudge posted an update to a story claiming that Chairman Dean had intervened in the New Orleans mayoral race. His update noted that the DNC had vehemently denied the report....
The Democratic National Committee consulted its attorneys Monday after a story claimed that Dean had intervened in New Orleans' recent mayoral race.
On Sunday evening, The Drudge Report claimed that Dean threw his support behind mayoral candidate and sitting Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu (D-LA) over sitting mayor Ray Nagin. Finney said the report was "absolutely false."
Finney was amused to find her quote -- given only to RAW STORY -- in Drudge's story. She said she had not spoken to Drudge.
"That's you," she told me, referring to Drudge's latest article.
"The DNC does not as a policy get involved in Democratic primaries," Finney said. "We did have poll watchers out to make sure people weren’t disenfranchised but it wasn’t on behalf of any candidate. It’s completely outrageous."
The Committee's involvement in the New Orleans race, she said, was limited to get out the vote efforts and placing poll watchers to ensure residents got an opportunity to vote. The DNC also set up a toll-free 800 number to help displaced residents locate their polling area.
"The only thing that the DNC did was a campaign helping ensure that displaced voters had an opportunity to vote," she said. "It wasn’t in support of any candidate or frankly any party... We focused on helping people find out where they needed to get out to vote."
Yeah, got to be careful about those sources. I was wondering why he never answered my challenge on that other thread.