[Vision2020] Vaughn Ward . . . and The Rest of the Story (Part 1)

Fri May 14 13:44:37 PDT 2010

That sounds like "accidental" and "unintentional" admin stuff in the same way I once "accidentally" and "unintentionally" made veal oskar in my kitchen when what I intended was simply to pour a bowl of Cheerios.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com

> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 06:18:03 -0700
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Vaughn Ward . . . and The Rest of the Story (Part 1)
> 
> Hmmm.
> 
> Plagiarism . . . must be one of them conservative principles that Rex
> Rammell keeps touting.
> 
> Courtesy of today's (May 14, 2010) Spokesman-Review.
> 
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> 
> Ward’s statements have familiar ring
> Betsy Z. Russell
> The Spokesman-Review
> 
> Tags: 2010 election idaho elections idaho politics
> 
> BOISE – Five of the 10 position statements Idaho congressional candidate
> Vaughn Ward has touted as his own on a campaign website are word-for-word
> identical to statements on other candidates’ and congressmen’s sites.
> 
> The apparent duplications included a reference to “my roadmap
> legislation,” which actually was introduced by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of
> Wisconsin, whose campaign website contains an identical paragraph.
> 
> Others include Ward’s statement on tax relief, which is a repeat of a
> statement on the campaign website of third-term U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis,
> R-Kentucky.
> 
> Half of his statement on health care matches a Jan. 7, 2009, Wall Street
> Journal article by U.S. Rep. Tom Price, R-Georgia. And his entire
> statement on “Definition of Marriage/Family Issues” matches a statement
> posted on the website of U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., with such minor
> changes as substituting “I believe” for “Sen. Jim DeMint believes.”
> 
> Within a half-hour after a reporter called Ward’s campaign Thursday with
> questions about the position statements, all links to them on his campaign
> website were disabled. Ryan O’Barto, Ward’s campaign spokesman, initially
> blamed the campaign’s Web vendor for the duplications. “Our Web vendor
> just posted the wrong thing,” O’Barto told The Spokesman-Review. “The new
> issues will be up today, and what it should have been. It was just a
> technical error.”
> 
> Ward, in an interview, said, “You’re looking at something that is
> completely raw. You’re looking at clippings of ideas that were spliced
> into there, it was being edited. But the people that were editing it put
> in the wrong stuff.”
> 
> He added, “It’s being fixed, the content’s moving over, the right stuff’s
> getting on there.”
> 
> On the website, original position statements on business tax incentives,
> limited government, guns, abortion and immigration were intermixed with
> the duplicative statements on tax relief, jobs, trade, health care and
> marriage. Asked who made the small changes – such as substituting “people
> of Idaho” for “people of Wisconsin’s 2nd District” in the jobs statement,
> and subbing “I will fight against” for “I have fought against” in a trade
> statement that otherwise matches one from Wisconsin Rep. Ryan, Ward had no
> firm answer.
> 
> “I don’t know how that occurred,” he said. “I have a team of people, these
> are all volunteers, people take a look at stuff,” he said. “I say, ‘Hey,
> guys, how does this sound to you? How does this grab you?’ ”
> 
> He added that he’s “always reading different thoughts out there, from Newt
> Gingrich to the Heritage Foundation, a whole slew of people that I take a
> look at all the time.”
> 
> Asked if the statements on his website for the past months actually
> represented his positions, Ward said they did in content. “This is about
> style vs. content,” he said. “I mean, how many ways can you say, ‘I
> support Second Amendment rights?’ How many ways can I say, ‘I support
> returning jobs back to small business and cutting waste and
> over-regulation?’ ”
> 
> Ward said he hasn’t read Rep. Ryan’s “Roadmap for America’s Future”
> legislation, versions of which Ryan proposed both in 2008 and again this
> year. In Ward’s statement on trade, which includes the reference to “my
> roadmap legislation,” the first two sentences match statements on the
> website of Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Nebraska, while the rest matches Ryan’s
> campaign website, including this sentence: “My roadmap legislation would
> level the playing field for American-made goods and services in the
> international marketplace.”
> 
> “Obviously I don’t have any legislation,” Ward said. “That was in a draft
> status.”
> 
> Ward also said he’s not necessarily a backer of 2009 legislation to
> establish “tax-exempt individual development accounts,” though that
> concept was touted in his tax relief statement. He said he wasn’t familiar
> with the bill.
> 
> In Ward’s issue statement on jobs and small business, one sentence matches
> the website of GOP congressional challenger Sean Duffy of Wisconsin, who’s
> running for the seat being vacated by retiring 7th District Democratic
> Rep. David Obey; while nearly all of the rest matches a jobs statement on
> the website of Wisconsin 2nd District GOP congressional challenger Chad
> Lee.
> 
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> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> 
> - Unknown
> 
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