Scott Brown Rented His Email List To Website That Sent 'Nazi' Messages

[meegbear]

Source: TalkingPointsMemo.com

Former Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) is cutting ties with conservative website Newsmax after it sent a disputed email about Alzheimer's disease to his political mailing list Wednesday morning.

The email from Newsmax, headlined "5 Signs You'll Get Alzheimer's Disease," struck even Scott's Republican supporters as odd. The article promoted a doctor who reportedly compared the country's heath care reform to Nazi-style thinking and said the former Soviet Union introduced drugs and AIDS to the United States, according to New Hampshire TV station WMUR.

Brown explained to WMUR that he does rent out his email list to vendors, albeit selectively.

"With regard to this vendor, I was exploring entering into an occasional rental agreement with the vendor that sent out the email this morning," he said. "While the issues of Alzheimer's is personal to me and an issue I have been working on for years, I did not approve or authorize the sending of this particular email. Due to this and other issues, I am terminating my relationship with this vendor effective immediately."

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"Let the Dems have their fun," Brown told the television station. "No biggie."

Thank God he's not my rep anymore

[SoapBox]

1. Always with the Nazi crazy crap.

TeaTerrorists are just obsessed with Nazi stuff.

[Herself]

14. who have the confederate states not hated that Nazi's hated? N/T

[bucolic_frolic]

2. The guy at the top is never responsible anymore

Kind of sad these robo-reps

[hrmjustin]

3. K&R!

[Sunlei]

4. He shouldn't sell his 'political' email lists to anyone!

Shouldn't use paid media like crazie hacker newsmax either but that's just the republican way.

Maybe newsmax sends that spam of crazy stuff 'free' in return for Brown (should be kept private!) email lists. Nope from his own mouth he did say "rent out".

[csziggy]

13. I suspect my Teabagger Representative sold his contact list to right wing groups

Steve Southerland, who is campaigning primarily on his continued attempts to repeal Obamacare!

Soon after the first time I called to tell him that I disagreed with everything he had done since getting into office, I began receiving calls from groups like the Freedom Foundation. I'd never had calls from any right wing organizations at all.

I called his office to complain about getting calls from those groups and from his office for his bogus "town hall" telephone conference calls that are hours long campaign promos. I told them if they did not remove me from every contact list they had, every time I got a call from the right wing groups I would contribute MORE money to his opponent, Gwen Graham (daughter of former Sen. & Gov. Bob Graham). Since then, I have not received a single call from any of the groups that had been calling every week or so...

Now the only way I feel comfortable contacting his office is when groups I agree with call me and can transfer me to his Washington office. That way they cannot get my phone number through caller ID.

[Scuba]

5. For Rent: Mailing list of known, validated suckers who will give you cash in exchange for snake oil.

[hibbing]

6. You sleep with dogs

[toby jo]

7. I checked out newsmax once -trying to keep things eclectic.

But their stuff goes from conservative to crazy to paranoid. Horrible. Sad to think they can get away with it.

[liberal N proud]

8. Rented?

Since when do you rent that sort of information?

[Beacool]

9. Actually, they all do.

That's one way of paying campaign debts. Politicians rent their lists all the time. The problem in this case is what Newsmax did with the list.

[liberal N proud]

11. So I rent your contacts and send emails

Then I give it back when I am done?

But I still have all your contacts in my system. But I only rented them, so can I use them?

So since I only rented them do I have to stop using them? And how would you stop me?


They don't RENT them, they sell them.

[JoeyT]

12. I can think of a few ways you could do something that could be called "renting" them.

You could have the list on your server so the people and groups you're renting them to don't ever actually see who they're mailing. They send the mail to the server which forwards it to everyone on your list. They don't know addresses or names, all they know is how many people the mail is going to reach and what kind of people they are.

I don't think Republicans would do anything like this out of a desire to protect privacy, but I think they might because it would force whoever wanted to use their list to keep giving them money for access to it.

[yellowcanine]

15. "he does rent out his email list to vendors, albeit selectively." Apparently not that selective.

It IS Newsmax, after all. How selective can he be. It is not that difficult to find out that Newsmax is basically a RW propoganda organization.