Klobuchar aide loses her job for viewing leaked Kennedy ad

Minneapolis StarTribune (aka The Red Star) ^ | 9/20/06 | AP News Story

[MplsSteve]

A high-level staffer on Amy Klobuchar’s U.S. Senate campaign lost her job and the DFLer’s race against Republican Mark Kennedy has veered into intrigue and controversy over the leak of an unreleased Kennedy TV ad.

In a prepared statement, Klobuchar campaign manager Ben Goldfarb said that communications director Tara McGuinness last Saturday was contacted by a local blogger who sent her a link to the Kennedy ad.

[MplsSteve]

Wow! Some exciting news from the campaign.

Minnesota Democrats Exposed (http://minnesotademocratsexposed.com) and Kennedy V Machine (http://www.kennedyvmachine.com) are all over this story.

Comments or opinions - anyone?

[Gay State Conservative]

What did Howard Dean know,and when did he know it?

[TitansAFC]

Knowing the press in MN, it'll be a dead story in 24 hours.

We can dream, but it is unlikely that it makes any significant dent in Kennedy's double-digit gap.

Still, it's good to finally have some good news in this race for a change.

[MplsSteve]

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[Clintonfatigued]

The Red Star Tribune won't give this a lot of coverage.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

The fact that they covered it at all is earth-shattering...

[Rembrandt]

"The Red Star Tribune won't give this a lot of coverage."

Every now and then, Laura Ingraham's BUT monkey comes in handy. Usually, it pertains to the Left, al a "but, did you consider....."

BUT, we can give this a lot of attention on Free Republic and people who read FR DO talk to other people, convincingly. Spread the word, people!!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Same basic story, here, with some additional bits...http://kstp.com/article/stories/S18912.html?cat=1

[P-40]

If it was just a campaign ad....what is the harm in it getting out a day or two early? Those things are nothing but crap anyway. The story is on the fishy side.

[dgallo51]

"It's okay…really…it's no big deal…Liberals are on 'our' side…sure they're crooks, but they're 'OUR' crooks" In the words of Marie Antoinette, "LET THEM ALL EAT SPINICH! LOTS AND LOTS OF SPINICH."

[montag813]

I wont look for this on DailyKos anytime soon. Haha!

[icwhatudo]

Knowing the press in MN, it'll be a dead story in 24 hours.

Same thing here in MD. The dem candidate for Senate had a staffer who posted racist stuff about the (R) candidate who is black. A staffer was fired but the story is everywhere.....except in the 2 largest Maryland papers-Baltimore Sun and Washington Post

[paudio]

Is there anybody name Armitage in Kennedy's campaign?

[DManA]

Just heard the tail end of a story about a Klobuchar gaff on the radio coming in. Frankly, this is a little disappointing. Guy went to a web site and followed the links. Who wouldn't?

[DManA]

Note, first thing I did was come to FR to get the real poop.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Hmmmm...... I see that the Strib has no update on their website this morning.

Luckily......http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_263181534.html

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Here we go....

http://www.startribune.com/587/story/690588.html

[MattMa]

When a person makes 18 attempts to log in to a secured site, (Albeit very weak password), the person has logged into the site with out the owners permission. If he would have come into my house in such a manner, in MN's Ramsey county, he would have broken the law. However in Klobuchar's Hennepin county, I'm not sure the same would be true.