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http://www.examiner.com/article/romney-employees-masterminded-maine-gop-convention-dirty-tricks
Kevin Kervick
Manchester Independent Examiner
Today we learned that the people involved in circulating fake candidate slates at the Maine GOP convention last week in order to mislead Ron Paul supporters were paid staffers of the Mitt Romney campaign. The names and identities of the perpetrators were provided by Jennifer (Ginger) Taylor, a Ron Paul delegate who broke the scandal on the day of the convention. Ms. Taylor is the Executive Director of a political action committee that works on healthcare issues in Maine.
According to Ms. Taylor (video), there were several Mitt Romney staffers involved in the alleged conspiracy. Taylor identified the key foot-soldier as Charlie Nejedly. Mr. Nejedly was the man who was caught distributing the misleading slates. From Romney campaign records Taylor was able to find out that Governor Romney paid Mr. Nejedly approximately $3,000 in each of the past two months.
The Romney campaign manager for Maine is Karl Beckstein, who was also implicated by Ms. Taylor as potentially having knowledge of the conspiracy to defraud the voters, although it is not clear that Mr. Beckstein was directly involved.
Finally, another Romney supporter, David Sorensen, is on film announcing several candidates that were improperly nominated due to the bogus slates. Several of those candidates had to withdraw their candidacies later.
renate
(13,776 posts)And liars are his main constituency.
tanyev
(42,520 posts)Paulbots are not known for their forgiving generous natures.
quispquake
(3,050 posts)We're a friendly bunch, but we don't like liars and cheaters...
Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)...Ron Paul supporters basically booing Romney's son Josh off the stage. Romney needs to learn that he's not going to receive an uncontested ascension to the throne. He's not "liked." 100% of his "juice" comes from the "Anyone But Obama" crowd. So if he wants to play dirty tricks, he can anticipate payback, and maybe on a meaner level than most would experience, because...well, because he is Mitt Romney, and he is not "liked."
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)it is usually from an over zealous person who acts on their own such as that girl from Pittsburgh who claimed an Obama supported punched her and put that backward "O" on her face.
But this seems endemic to the people who are attracted to Romney and his ilk. All that matters to them is to Win not realizing that that coveted result is forever tainted by how they got there...
This is a lot like what Rove did with the Florida recount and we can see what that culture of entitlement can bring...
Romney is as soulless as the Bush family.
tanyev
(42,520 posts)WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Hey I just got up....