The buck stops elsewhere.
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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“...spelling erors...”
Intentionally done, right?
Another reason to vote for Fred Thompson in the primary
Not quit sufficient is it?
So it’s a “parody site” now?
This is all emblematic of Romney’s campaign style.
It is Romney’s campaign that has been behind all of the opposition research about the other candidates leaked to the media.
Romney has waged a nasty, unbecoming campaign, and the Democrats will thank him in the general election for doing all their dirty work for them.
This is reason alone why he doesn’t deserve our support.
Pingly-wingly?
This was a privately paid consulting company.
I doubt Mitt did anything wrong, I don’t think he’s to blame, but he’s not handling the aftermath very well. Or, someone on his staff is not handling it well.
Whatever do you mean?
Oh, that, well, normally Elaine does the posting and she’s on break so I did it myself, and she never taught me the spell check thing. It’s not my fault.
Heh.
time to fire the consultants
Eww, Romney is down and dirty now isn’t he?
A campaign between Romney and Hildebeast would require a bushel of popcorn and 55 gallon drum of soda....
Funny thing is, I always suspected stuff like this from Rudy’s campaign, they both swam with the Dhimicrats in their previous jobs, they understand how this works../s
Why is it that Romney is always the guy who has to apologize for this kinda crap?
Because he and his folks are the ones doing it?
Just a guess...
It’s the hair...and the teeth....sighhhh
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.
“As the first associate consultant and vice president of TTS, Wesley Donehue runs the daily operations of the firm. Despite being only 27 years old, he is one of the most experienced operatives in the state,””
Ok folks, the guy who set up the smear website is the Vise President of the company Romney hired and he runs the day to day operations of the company.
Now Romney expects people to believe that neither he nor the company he hired knows anything about it?
The guy runs the operations of the company and used the company servers to host the site but neither the company or Romney share any blame?
It happens on his watch?
And I see our resident Petronski has stooped to the usual lows, joining our little consulting firm.
You are a piece of work. A hypocritical one. Well, a piece is perhaps a more accurate description.
How many times are you going to post that picture and then moan when someone dares poke Fred Thompson and makes him cry?
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