But the point is that this proves it isn’t HER plan, and this was supposed to be the main issue of her campaign. Yet she couldn’t even be bothered to think up her own plan. She didn’t even bother to plagiarize it herself.
So intellectually challenged she had to plagiarize her policies.
So lazy she tasked someone else to do it.
So venal she forced the underling to take the blame.
Just guessing here, but I’d take a guess that she lost five-percent of her followers over this. The rest will stick with her, but that was a pretty stupid mistake to make and how would you come back from this? Where does the new jobs plan come from, and will the press check to verify the new plan is original?
Precisely. The funny thing is, Burke's not the only one tainted by this. This episode suggests that candidates Jack Markell (D-Failed), Del. Gov. Ward Cammack and John Gregg (D-Failed)probably didn't have had an original idea in their heads when Eric Schnurer wrote "their" plans, either.
Since the lifted passages of the plan came from the consultant's own work for other politicians, it's not clear it was plagiarism in the sense that most think of it-- material stolen from another writer and presented as one's own. Here, the writer re-used his own words. But since he'd already sold those words to 3 others before Burke, he's likely in breach of 3 contracts.
Typically, contracts for ghostwriters have a clause that states the material is the writer's own, original work, and that he/she has the right to sell it. And as a work for hire, which this stuff probably was, the writer relinquishes all rights to the buyer.
Maybe the dems should just cut the middleman and run Schnurer for office. He's going to need a new line of work, anyway, as his prospects for consulting work just got a whole lot slimmer. Oh wait. He's a liberal Democrat. That antiquated ethics crap only applies to conservatives.