| On June 4th - over at Michael Brodkorb's "Minnesota Democrats Exposed" - I noticed a reprehensible smear of GOP State Representative Laura Brod. While the comment making the smear, by an anonymous poster named "J" was taken down, subsequent comments acknowledging the smear were not - and I captured those comments on a screen shot. Now, regular readers here know I've taken shots at Laura Brod before, from nominating Laura Brod as Hypocrite Of The Month to her asinine voter fraud comments to, most recently, a complete debunking of a Canadian health care comment she twitted.
Those posts I made concerning Laura Brod are NOT about her or her private life - they are about her political activities and shots like I took are completely within the realm of acceptable politics: she ripped Al Franken while ignoring ol' Smokescreen's indefensible inaction during The Abramoff Scandal; she alleges voter fraud without making her case; and she made a claim about Canadian health care that simply wasn't true.
Fair game, each and every one of 'em. The smear campaign targeting Laura Brod? Completely unacceptable.
And it's interesting to note that the smear campaign targeting Laura Brod, according to rightwing blogger Andy Aplikowski, was orchestrated not only from within the GOP, but at the highest levels within the GOP. Here's what Andy Aplikowski posted:
The alleged culprits of the attack are Seifert supporters with speculation of the ringleader being the candidate himself. (ChangeWeMust.org)
Last Monday, August 10th, blogger Brian Falldin, who broke and is covering this story, posted the following breaking news:
MINNEAPOLIS (CWM) - We've received an e-mail confirmation from Residual Forces author Andy Aplikowski that Andy Gildea was the Republican Staffer referred to in his accusatory article. (CWM.org)
Tuesday, I confirmed Andy Gildea was on GOP Rep. Marty Seifert's staff when this smear campaign was being orchestrated; Andy Gildea left Rep. Siefert's staff when Seifert stepped down as Minority Leader. Andy Gildea is now employed as a Research Consultant by the GOP House Caucus.
Stay tuned as this CommentGate story of dirty GOP politics (are there any other?) continues.... |
