<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">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="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><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="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:
OLE_LINK1"></SPAN> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><FONT size=3><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><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="mso-spacerun: yes"> </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="mso-spacerun: yes"> </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="mso-spacerun: yes"> </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="mso-spacerun: yes"> </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="mso-spacerun: yes"> </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: 150%"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>###<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div>
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