DNC letter to FreeRepublic: Stop Lying about Howard Dean, and Gov Sebelius...OR ELSE!

Sandler, Reiff & Young, P.C. ^ | May 11, 2007 | Sandler, Reif & Young, P.C. for the DNC

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SANDLE, REIFF and YOUNG, P.C.
50 E Street, S.E., Suite 300
Washington DC 20003

Telephone: 202.479.XXXX FAX: 202.479.XXXX

May 10, 2007

VIA E-Mail

Mr. James C Robinson FreeRepublic.com PO Box 9771 Fresno, CA 93794

Re: Statement re Democratic National Committee

Dear Mr Robinson:

We are writing on behalf of our client, the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

A post by “coffee260” on FreeRepublic.com today states that this morning, on the Quinn & Rose show on XM, co-host Quin stated that the DNC chairman, Gov. Howard Dean had called Gov Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kans) “around 5:00am on morning after a tornado destroyed the town of Greensburg, Kansas and discussed with here what to say about the tornado and how to blame the war in Iraq and the Bush administration on a slow response to the aftermath.”

The statement was made by Mr Quinn, repeated on FreeRepublic, is demonstrably, unequivocally and absolutely false. Gov Dean had no such conversation with Gov Sebelius, ever.

No effort was made by FreeRepublic to contact anyone at the DNC for comment or to check the accuracy of these statements before they were published. FreeRepublic not only repeated this statement, but further stressed that Quinn’s “source” was extremely reliable and in a position that would give him direct knowledge of these revelations.

The statements quoted above are false and defamatory, are libelous and slanderous and clearly threaten to interfere with the DNC’s operations and ability to solicit support and raise funds by predjuding the organization in the eyes of the Democratic Party supporters and the public. For these reasons, we demand that FreeRepublic immediately cease and desist from Further dissemination of the above quoted statements or any statements similar in substance and immediately post a retraction of these statements in a location on its web pages at least as prominent as that on which the original story appeared.

Please let us know by noon, May 11, 2007, whether you intend to comply with these requests.

Thanks for your time and immediate attention to this important matter.

Sincerely yours,
(Signature)
Joseph E Sandler

[rfp1234]

—Sincerely yours,
(Signature)
Joseph E Sandler—

That must be a typo - it’s Joseph A. SLANDER.

[kevkrom]

I believe that an investigation needs to be launched to determine if this call took place. The lack of evidence is of no matter, the seriousness of the charge alone demands and investigation. They need to get the phone records for all of Howard Deans phones, the DNCs phones, and the Governors phones.

Better subpoena all of the DNC's emails and written records too, just to be sure.

[kcvl]

Joseph Sandler is a partner at Sandler, Reiff & Young and serves as general counsel to the Democratic National Committee . He was a member of the core legal team for the Gore Recount Committee. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner at Arent Fox, handling campaign finance and election law matters for Democratic national and state party organizations, members of Congress, candidates and campaigns.

[kevkrom]

Jim, I won’t be offended if you use the text in my #73 verbatim in your response to the DNC, assuming you even deign to give them one.

[batter]

HotAir states that Brownback denied it took place.

The C&D is still funny, though. Talk about drawing more attention to something that would've quickly died. Duh!

[XR7]

[coon2000]

Joseph Sandler has a comb over

[NonValueAdded]

If Quinn said it, how could we NOT report the saying???

[Erasmus]

That’s some mighty big popcorn.

[rfp1234]

—we demand that FreeRepublic immediately cease and desist from Further dissemination—

We demand that the DNC immediately cease and desist from “Fuehrer-like Intimidation”.

[P-40]

I think he inherited Trafficant’s hair.

[BlackSeal]

I’ve heard Dean was a nancy boy.

/Just sayin’

[NonValueAdded]

The “C” is for Conservative, silly :)

[rfp1234]

—People died while Sebelius and Dean lied—

Yeah, 10,000 to be exact (Barack Hussein Dumbo Obama).

[swmobuffalo]

So now what?

[M203M4]

I did not hear any rumors about Joseph E Sandler and Howard Dean having sexual relations with dead animals. Not to say that Democrats think there is anything wrong with that. Just bringing this to your attention.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP!

[aft_lizard]

Oooh that’s excellent. I think it would be great if a republican lawyer had the sack to put something like that in a letter.

[SmithL]

Note to DNC: Sen Leahy has an important message from the Vice President for you.

[kidd]

Dear DNC -

Please prove that the following is “demonstrably, unequivocally and absolutely false”:

on the Quinn & Rose show on XM, co-host Quin stated that the DNC chairman, Gov. Howard Dean had called Gov Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kans) “around 5:00am on morning after a tornado destroyed the town of Greensburg, Kansas and discussed with here what to say about the tornado and how to blame the war in Iraq and the Bush administration on a slow response to the aftermath.”

If you cannot do so by noon, May 12, 2007 we here at the FreeRepublic will continue to exercise free speech. If you ARE able to do so by noon, May 12, 2007 we here at the FreeRepublic will continue to exercise free speech.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,
Freeper kidd

PS - We here at the FreeRepublic request that you clear all public statements with the FreeRepublic posters.

PSS - BWHAHAHAHAHHAAA!!!