WP: GOP Fliers Apparently Were Part Of Strategy: Maryland Tactics Similar To Ones in 2002

[DeepModem Mom]

GOP Fliers Apparently Were Part Of Strategy
Md. Tactics Similar To Ones in 2002
By Matthew Mosk and Avis Thomas-Lester
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, November 13, 2006; Page B01

The six Trailways motorcoaches draped in Ehrlich and Steele campaign banners rumbled down Interstate 95 just before dawn on Election Day.

On board, 300 mostly poor African Americans from Philadelphia ate doughnuts, sipped coffee and prepared to spend the day at the Maryland polls. After an early morning greeting from Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s wife, Kendel, they would fan out in white vans across Prince George's County and inner-city Baltimore, armed with thousands of fliers that appeared to be designed to trick black Democrats into voting for the two Republican candidates.

The glossy fliers bore photos of black Democratic leaders on the front. Under the headline "Democratic Sample Ballot" were boxes checked in red for Ehrlich and Senate candidate Michael S. Steele, who were not identified as Republicans. Their names were followed by a long list of local Democratic candidates.

Nearly a week later, a fuller picture has emerged about how the plan to capture blacks' votes unfolded -- details that suggest the fliers, and the people paid to distribute them, were not part of a hurry-up effort but a calculated strategy.

Republican leaders have defended the Election Day episode as an accepted element of bare-knuckle politics. But for many voters, it shattered in one day the nice-guy images Ehrlich and Steele had cultivated for years....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/12/AR2006111201084.html?nav=most_emailed

[aquart]

1. What? Slime not working anymore?

Obvioulsly, the solution is more slime.

[Judi Lynn]

2. This is one of the most repulsive campaign tricks I've seen.

Thank god almighty it didn't do this p.o.s. a bit of good, in the end!

I saw he did vile things in the LAST election, as well, the one he won, and got by with them, after involving his lawyers in a lot of extra work on his behalf.

I did a google to find out who the man is who cooked up this dirty idea, Malik Aziz, and he's an ex-gang person. Looks as if he STILL hasn't learned any respect for his fellow man/woman.

I hope and pray Erlich simply faaaaaades away, and his ugly rat-face will never be seen again in places people take seriously.



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Congratuations to Governor-Elect Martin O'Malley