Posted on 11/05/2006 8:05:26 PM PST by lonestar67
Operation infiltration update UPDATE Submitted by staff on Sat, 11/04/2006 - 8:48pm. [UPDATE] We're fully staffed for phase II
You can Sign up for the GOP 72 hour program here, and become a GOTV double agent.
Before you do however, send me an email, and I'll give you your mission profile.
Some field reports coming in indicate day 1 was a big success - more on that Monday
(Excerpt) Read more at buckeyestateblog.com ...
Check to see if the applicant is REGISTERED REPUBLICAN, preferable for a year or more.
Not sure if there's a connection, but there's a Russell Walters at Iowa State U College of engineering:
http://129.186.227.172/faculty_staff/details.cfm?staffID=-77439230
Russell Walters
Assistant Professor
Voice: 515-294-2171, Fax: 294-3845
rwalters@iastate.edu
I ran into a Pakistani connection, that I was going to ask about. I couldn't figure out what it was all about.
That sounds like an Office Space scene when they want to "launder money" to avoid jailtime. lol.
I ran into a Pakistani connection, that I was going to ask about. I couldn't figure out what it was all about.
I'll be out of the house for a couple of hours, but please freepmail me if you don't want to post.
Hoax or not, and I'm not entirely convinced, it was out there.
It's time this mess got cleared up.
I'm Paul Ackerman, one of the two partners from Linwood Campaign Services.
Ryan Fissel is my business partner and he does own Chromahost, but it exists pretty much as a hosting company for our campaign consulting business.
Buckeye State Blog began to be hosted at Chromahost in February of this year once it became a statewide blog dedicated to Ohio Progressive Politics.
Russell Hughlock (who is NOT Russell Walters) runs Buckeye State Blog, we do not.
Russell, based on what I've leared since I started hearing about this at 6:15am this morning, is running some sort of hoax trying to get into your heads.
Frankly, I don't care if he thinks it was successful or not, he's an idiot and has been told repeatedly, and forcefully, to own up to this pathetic joke.
He hasn't so we are now doing so. Tom at Bizzyblog has posted Ryan's response and I'm posting this now.
The fun part was calling all of our current clients to let them know that people on the Internet was lumping them together in some sort of keystone cops plot. And the hardest part was telling my wife, Jean Herendeen Ackerman, about this.
You see, she ran and lost by 68 votes in the primary (on May 2nd ... the January 15th reference was LAST January 15th) for state representative. Ryan Fissel acted as her campaign manager.
Let ole Russ know that he's not in my head! :)
Anyways, thanks for clearing it up.
So he is using the John Kerry - I was just joking defense?
I'll let you tell him yourself.
Russell Hughlock and I aren't exactly on speaking terms right now.
Tanks for the ping, Count!
Good After-Mornin',KK,,,I thought this was interesting...
As the person who posted this I want to clarify that I do not suspect this to be a hoax. It may be. I actually do some specialized work in political communication and I don't see any indications that this is a hoax.
I have also monitored this site for weeks now and this item fits the general demeanor of the site. It is worth noting that at other points in the site members have expressed shock and dismay that Republicans are doing so much better in their GOTV efforts than the democrats.
It is also my experience in academia that in liberal blog sites like this there is a pervasive air of condescension wherein conservative simpletons are viewed as easy prey for the more intellectually sophisticated liberal. This fantasy theme leads participants into contemplations of unethical acts which are necessary for 'victory.' For reasons such as this, I think it is quite plausible that the site was not intended as a hoax.
I have no certainty as to the intentions of individuals operating the site. In any case, I felt it was serious enough for greater public scrutiny to be applied to the site. I am glad this has happened.
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