[blackdog]

Note to RNC....Endorsing candidates from the telecommunications industry is not a smart act. Anyone who actually tries to understand their phone bill recognizes fraud when they see it.

[goldstategop]

Paul Hindelang, the guy who won the lawsuit, was a drug smuggler. If we had an honest to goodness press, imagine how the real media headlines would have read: "Honest Businessman Stunned By Court Verdict Gone Awry; Drug Smuggler Wins Millions." Note to Simon's campaign: Your firm's accounting partner goofed and failed to catch this guy's unsavory past and now you're left holding the bag. Incidentally, I agree with Simon the verdict was substantially flawed. The judge will either set it aside or it will be overturned on appeal, but quite frankly this just wasn't the kind of news Simon had been expecting. You sometimes meet shady characters in life and sometimes they come back to really hurt you. For the record, after playing the devil's advocate in much of this thread, I have to say Simon's personally not a crook or guilty of anything wrong. His company tried to protect itself from someone no one would want to do business with. In view of the political climate, the jury looked for someone to blame and alas, it didn't turn out to be the guy with the shady past.