Blogosphere Threatened By ex-Klinton Staffer

AP; various sources cited in link ^ | December 28, 2005 | Minnesota Democrats Exposed

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The following is a snip from www.democratsexposed.com:

"I have been informed by a source in direct contact with Coleen Rowley's campaign, that Blois Olson's PR firm, New School Communications, tried to get Rowley's campaign to hire Blois' firm for a consulting contract.

Buck Humphrey, an employee of New School Communications, was the main person trying to get Rowley's campaign to ink the contract.

Rowley's campaign decided against hiring New School Communications.

According to my source, it was only after Rowley's campaign decided against hiring Blois' firm that Blois started to appear in newspapers criticizing Rowley's campaign.

If my source is correct, and I believe they are, Politics in Minnesota and Blois Olson have some explaining to do.

Why did Blois never disclose he was trying to get Rowley's campaign to hire his firm?

This story is developing and I will have more information later this evening.

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UPDATE: Blois Olson sent me the following email:

-----Original Message----- From: Blois Olson [mailto:b.olson@new-school.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 8:49 PM To: Minnesota Democrats Exposed Subject: RE: Minnesota Democrats Exposed: MDE EXCLUSIVE: COLEEN ROWLEY AND BLOIS OLSON Importance: High

I don't know who you are but your story is ABSOLUTELY FALSE.

New School Communications does not do ANY political work. Buck Humphrey may have persued a work with Rowley PRIOR to his employment at New School but we do not do any campaign work.

I demand a retraction immediately.

[WorkingClassFilth]

This is a fragment of the post penned by Michael B. Brodkorb who is both a Republican activist in Minnesota as well as a private citizen doing his own blog. He has claimed that Mr. Olson's company, New School Communications, does political work for the RAT's as a side to their supposedly objective work as an political report and independent media and communications firm. Mr. Olson has brought a $50,000 lawsuit against Mr. Brodkorb for defamation. The interesting thing is that Mr. Olson is a former Clinton staffer now interested in forging new legal ground in order to bring a harness to free speech on the internet.

What was it that Hillary said about the need to rethink the internet and create some sort of "gatekeeping" function?

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