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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.<br><br><font style="" color="#8064a2"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font style="" face="Verdana">Keely<br>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<br></font></font></font><br><br><br><br>> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 06:18:03 -0700<br>> From: thansen@moscow.com<br>> To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>> Subject: [Vision2020] Vaughn Ward . . . and The Rest of the Story (Part 1)<br>> <br>> Hmmm.<br>> <br>> Plagiarism . . . must be one of them conservative principles that Rex<br>> Rammell keeps touting.<br>> <br>> Courtesy of today's (May 14, 2010) Spokesman-Review.<br>> <br>> -------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> Ward’s statements have familiar ring<br>> Betsy Z. Russell<br>> The Spokesman-Review<br>> <br>> Tags: 2010 election idaho elections idaho politics<br>> <br>> BOISE – Five of the 10 position statements Idaho congressional candidate<br>> Vaughn Ward has touted as his own on a campaign website are word-for-word<br>> identical to statements on other candidates’ and congressmen’s sites.<br>> <br>> The apparent duplications included a reference to “my roadmap<br>> legislation,” which actually was introduced by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of<br>> Wisconsin, whose campaign website contains an identical paragraph.<br>> <br>> Others include Ward’s statement on tax relief, which is a repeat of a<br>> statement on the campaign website of third-term U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis,<br>> R-Kentucky.<br>> <br>> Half of his statement on health care matches a Jan. 7, 2009, Wall Street<br>> Journal article by U.S. Rep. Tom Price, R-Georgia. And his entire<br>> statement on “Definition of Marriage/Family Issues” matches a statement<br>> posted on the website of U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., with such minor<br>> changes as substituting “I believe” for “Sen. Jim DeMint believes.”<br>> <br>> Within a half-hour after a reporter called Ward’s campaign Thursday with<br>> questions about the position statements, all links to them on his campaign<br>> website were disabled. Ryan O’Barto, Ward’s campaign spokesman, initially<br>> blamed the campaign’s Web vendor for the duplications. “Our Web vendor<br>> just posted the wrong thing,” O’Barto told The Spokesman-Review. “The new<br>> issues will be up today, and what it should have been. It was just a<br>> technical error.”<br>> <br>> Ward, in an interview, said, “You’re looking at something that is<br>> completely raw. You’re looking at clippings of ideas that were spliced<br>> into there, it was being edited. But the people that were editing it put<br>> in the wrong stuff.”<br>> <br>> He added, “It’s being fixed, the content’s moving over, the right stuff’s<br>> getting on there.”<br>> <br>> On the website, original position statements on business tax incentives,<br>> limited government, guns, abortion and immigration were intermixed with<br>> the duplicative statements on tax relief, jobs, trade, health care and<br>> marriage. Asked who made the small changes – such as substituting “people<br>> of Idaho” for “people of Wisconsin’s 2nd District” in the jobs statement,<br>> and subbing “I will fight against” for “I have fought against” in a trade<br>> statement that otherwise matches one from Wisconsin Rep. Ryan, Ward had no<br>> firm answer.<br>> <br>> “I don’t know how that occurred,” he said. “I have a team of people, these<br>> are all volunteers, people take a look at stuff,” he said. “I say, ‘Hey,<br>> guys, how does this sound to you? How does this grab you?’ ”<br>> <br>> He added that he’s “always reading different thoughts out there, from Newt<br>> Gingrich to the Heritage Foundation, a whole slew of people that I take a<br>> look at all the time.”<br>> <br>> Asked if the statements on his website for the past months actually<br>> represented his positions, Ward said they did in content. “This is about<br>> style vs. content,” he said. “I mean, how many ways can you say, ‘I<br>> support Second Amendment rights?’ How many ways can I say, ‘I support<br>> returning jobs back to small business and cutting waste and<br>> over-regulation?’ ”<br>> <br>> Ward said he hasn’t read Rep. Ryan’s “Roadmap for America’s Future”<br>> legislation, versions of which Ryan proposed both in 2008 and again this<br>> year. In Ward’s statement on trade, which includes the reference to “my<br>> roadmap legislation,” the first two sentences match statements on the<br>> website of Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Nebraska, while the rest matches Ryan’s<br>> campaign website, including this sentence: “My roadmap legislation would<br>> level the playing field for American-made goods and services in the<br>> international marketplace.”<br>> <br>> “Obviously I don’t have any legislation,” Ward said. “That was in a draft<br>> status.”<br>> <br>> Ward also said he’s not necessarily a backer of 2009 legislation to<br>> establish “tax-exempt individual development accounts,” though that<br>> concept was touted in his tax relief statement. He said he wasn’t familiar<br>> with the bill.<br>> <br>> In Ward’s issue statement on jobs and small business, one sentence matches<br>> the website of GOP congressional challenger Sean Duffy of Wisconsin, who’s<br>> running for the seat being vacated by retiring 7th District Democratic<br>> Rep. David Obey; while nearly all of the rest matches a jobs statement on<br>> the website of Wisconsin 2nd District GOP congressional challenger Chad<br>> Lee.<br>> <br>> -------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> Seeya round town, Moscow.<br>> <br>> Tom Hansen<br>> Moscow, Idaho<br>> <br>> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change<br>> and the Realist adjusts his sails."<br>> <br>> - Unknown<br>> <br>> <br>> =======================================================<br>> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br>> http://www.fsr.net <br>> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>> =======================================================<br> <br /><hr />Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. 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