Posted on 09/11/2007 4:49:22 PM PDT by lesser_satan
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Romney spokesman Kevin Madden said the employee, Wesley Donehue, created the website phoneyfred.org without the approval of the campaign.
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Madden insisted Donehue is "not an employee of the Romney campaign," and his name does not appear in the financial disclosures that presidential candidates are required to make with the Federal Election Commission.
But Donehue is clearly an employee of several firms which have been paid tens of thousands of dollars by Romney.
The firm Tompkins, Thompson, Sullivan has received $37,596 from Romney's campaign, most of it for "Political strategy consulting." The web site for that firm has been taken down, but a recent page cached by Google lists him as an "associate consultant and vice president" of the firm.
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The firm is run by Warren Tompkins -- Romney's senior adviser in South Carolina -- and Terry Sullivan, who is on Romney's payroll as the South Carolina state director.
The company Under the Power Lines, which describes itself as an internet consulting firm, lists Donehue as a "Partner/Consultant." The phoneyfred.org website was hosted on the same server as the Under the Power Lines website.
Donehue is also listed as an "Associate" in a direct mail firm called On the Mark Direct, which has been paid $146,018 by Romney's campaign for printing.
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The companies Donehue works for are part of a large political operation founded by Tompkins, a longtime adviser to the late former governor, Carroll Campbell, who is known for his bare-knuckles approach to politics.
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In an e-mail, Tompkins said he did not know anything about the phoneyfred.org site.
"I did not know about a web site and quite frankly am very internet dysfunctional," he wrote. "Anyone who knows me would laugh at the prospect of my even being involved in such an undertaking."
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Ping!
Allow me, I’d be happy to help him...
He would have said:
“Oh sh*t”...
It’s always the cover-up.
They only did it because Reagan was so adamantly pro-choice.
[spit]
Nice work if you can get it!
They had plausible deniability, but there came a point when that deniability was no longer plausible.
That point was when the website disappeared very shortly after the press called it to Willard’s attention.
Madden insisted Donehue is “not an employee of the Romney campaign,”
The guy was a key employee of a key subcontractor hired by the campaign.
Close enough.
Time to apologize.
That’s his M.O. Lie and deny at every opportunity.
I wonder who he blames for having the worst economic record of any State except La., during his Governing years?
**Ahem** "Slick Willard."
So, if the Romney campaign had paid Kinkos “thousands of dollars” for reproducting documents and such, then if any employees of Kinkos made a website negative of another candidate, then Romney would somehow be to blame?!
So, if the Romney campaign had paid Kinkos “thousands of dollars” for reproducing documents and such, then if any employees of Kinkos made a website negative of another candidate, then Romney would somehow be to blame?!
Romney, and the other dont-have-a-chancers,
need to get off the stage
I know the perfect defense for Willard: “You can’t blame us for this. If he was with us, he’d be carrying a badge!”
Any bets Clinton, Inc. is also a client?
Yet he hired the guy...
Hum, Mr CEO...
This makes a great deal of sense. Barbra Streisand blamed “a staffer” when it was pointed out that her website had more spelling erors than a third grader’s essay. It works.
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