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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMark Sanford posts private phone numbers of citizens who call him with complaints to his website
Thu Apr 25, 2013 at 01:59 PM PDT
Mark Sanford publishes phone numbers of people who responded to his invitation to call his cell
by David Nir
Wow! What a raging jagoff! So I'm sure you recall that the other day, Mark Sanford had the brilliant idea to run a full-page newspaper ad filled with an incredibly lengthy and self-serving series of b.s. explanations for why he trespassed at his ex-wife's home, followed by a whole lot of moaning about negative ads being run by Democrats, and capped off with a comparison of his situation to that of the men who defended the Alamo (who, of course, almost all died). In the middle, though, Sanford made this bizarre offer:
"Desperate" and "weird" hardly begin to describe it, but one of the groups whose ads Sanford complained about, the House Majority PAC, decided to take him up on it. In a post-script to a fundraising email, they reprinted Sanford's cell phone number and suggested that their supporters "[g]ive him a call and ask why he spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on luxury travel." A number of them did just that, so guess what Sanford did in response?
He published the phone numbers of the people who called him. These are ordinary citizensperhaps a little brasher than averagebut I'm sure they had no expectation that their numbers would get printed on Mark Sanford's campaign website. I don't want to even link to the document Sanford originally posted, but here's a redacted version, and to be clear, every black box you see obscures a number that Sanford had no problem reproducing in full:
?1366923080
Mark Sanford publishes phone numbers of people who responded to his invitation to call his cell
by David Nir
Wow! What a raging jagoff! So I'm sure you recall that the other day, Mark Sanford had the brilliant idea to run a full-page newspaper ad filled with an incredibly lengthy and self-serving series of b.s. explanations for why he trespassed at his ex-wife's home, followed by a whole lot of moaning about negative ads being run by Democrats, and capped off with a comparison of his situation to that of the men who defended the Alamo (who, of course, almost all died). In the middle, though, Sanford made this bizarre offer:
The Democrats' ads will tell you none of this, so if you have further questions, go to www.marksanford.com, call me at the campaign office at 843-764-9188, or even on my cell at 843-367-1010.
"Desperate" and "weird" hardly begin to describe it, but one of the groups whose ads Sanford complained about, the House Majority PAC, decided to take him up on it. In a post-script to a fundraising email, they reprinted Sanford's cell phone number and suggested that their supporters "[g]ive him a call and ask why he spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on luxury travel." A number of them did just that, so guess what Sanford did in response?
He published the phone numbers of the people who called him. These are ordinary citizensperhaps a little brasher than averagebut I'm sure they had no expectation that their numbers would get printed on Mark Sanford's campaign website. I don't want to even link to the document Sanford originally posted, but here's a redacted version, and to be clear, every black box you see obscures a number that Sanford had no problem reproducing in full:
?1366923080
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/25/1204824/-Mark-Sanford-publishes-phone-numbers-of-people-who-responded-to-his-invitation-to-call-his-cell
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Mark Sanford posts private phone numbers of citizens who call him with complaints to his website (Original Post)
Bjorn Against
Apr 2013
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csziggy
(34,178 posts)1. It's as if he wants to lose this election
Maybe it's a scam, just like "The Producers"?
RGinNJ
(1,024 posts)2. What a hole.
I just love how Republicans step up to the plate when running for higher office.
bluedigger
(17,132 posts)3. He's a Campaign Troll.
What a tool!
JI7
(90,099 posts)4. looks like this could be a bigger joke of a campaign than christine odonnell, romney, palin
the gop primary losers etc.
i saw the other day he brought along a cardboard cutout of Nancy Pelosi to debate against .
Marr
(20,317 posts)5. Is he a son of wealthy parents or something?
Rarely do you see such juvenile stupidity and complete lack of self-awareness from an adult. I've only ever seen it in the children of wealthy people (they never achieve adulthood, no matter how wrinkled they get).