This is disappointing, but not surprising. Which crook do you want in office this go around? We wonder why only 50% of the population votes, this is why. When your choices are an unethical prick that you agree with and and unethical prick you disagree with. <br> <br> Best,<br> <br> _DJA<br><br><b><i>Tim Lohrmann <timlohr@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br> <blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Arial;">News Release<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <h3 style="margin: 0pt;"><a name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a name="OLE_LINK1"><span style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"><font size="3">Grant campaign admits to dirty tricks and uses Hedden-Nicely e-mail list<o:p></o:p></font></span></span></a></h3><span style=""></span><span style=""></span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><font size="3"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Arial;">BOISE</span></st1:City><span style="font-family: Arial;">, <st1:State w:st="on">ID</st1:State></span></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;"> - <span style=""> </span>Julie Fanselow of the Grant campaign admitted today that they took advantage of an error and used a Hedden-Nicely email list without permission to distribute a one-sided editorial to
Hedden-Nicely supporters. “I never expected this from Grant,” said Hedden-Nicely. <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p><font size="3"> </font></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><font size="3">According to <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Christopher Hansen</st1:PersonName>, a supporter and recognized email distribution professional, “It appears to me (the Grant Campaign) used an unethical method to get this email list.”<o:p></o:p></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><font size="3"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;"><span style=""> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><font size="3">“We
posted this story and my rebuttal on our website weeks ago and receiving it again wasn’t any surprise to my supporters. What was a surprise was that the Grant campaign would use our email list without permission. My supporters are furious about this.”<o:p></o:p></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p><font size="3"> </font></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><font size="3">“Your desperation in spamming me and attempting to persuade me to vote for your presumed employer ("@grantforcongress.com") smacks of the same self-serving politics that Sali exercises. Forget it,” was a response from another Hedden-Nicely supporter to Fanselow.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p><font
size="3"> </font></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><font size="3">According to Hansen it is also possible that the Grant Campaign violated the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. <span style="color: blue;"><a title="http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/canspam.htm" href="http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/canspam.htm">http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/canspam.htm</a><span style=""> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Each violation of the above provisions is subject to fines of up to $11,000</span><span style="color: blue;">.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;"><o:p><font size="3"> </font></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><font
size="3">“Grant is a corporate lawyer for goodness sake. They should have done their homework and they didn’t. I also question their ethics. Stealing and using an email list is wrong and they know it. <span style=""> </span>Are they that desperate?” asked Hedden-Nicely.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p><font size="3"> </font></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><font size="3">Hedden-Nicely, is running against Grant, Bill Sali, Dave Olson and Paul Smith for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></st1:place>’s first Congressional Seat. Information can be found at </font><a href="http://www.hedden-nicely.com/"><font color="#000080" size="3">www.hedden-nicely.com</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; line-height:
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