For some reason, when I say or type “dirty tricks”, I think of Gollum from Lord of the Rings saying, “tricksy little hobbits…”. But anyway, I went to Talking Points Memo, and lo and behold, I see the first item is about New Mexico!
It linked to a TPM Muckraker story about the dirty tricks by the GOP. The Associated Press reported on the story, and in the story, the GOP claimed it only happened once, to one voter. But NM Democratic Party director Matt Farrauto says that’s just not true.
More on the dark side of the moon.
Crossposted at New Mexico FBIHOP and as a diary at Daily Kos
“I am standing in front of four people who had it happen to them, and there’s a fifth woman who contacted me this morning,” Farrauto told me. The group was standing in the courthouse lobby, he said, waiting to meet with a judge who could order the GOP’s calls to stop.
The Albuquerque Journal mentions the controversy in their Monday-before-Election-Day article. Again, there is the claim by the Republicans it only happened to one person.
But Marta Kramer, executive director of the state Republican Party, said the accusation was bogus. She said a volunteer on the Republican phone bank inadvertently called a Democrat who had the same name as two other Republicans.
Right. Those other four or five people who have come forward and actually realized this is unethical and misleading information? They don’t exist. Not to mention we don’t know how many Democrats don’t realize the information is wrong.
Joe Monahan notes that Republicans are getting misleading mailers; I think we can assume these are being sent to everyone.
[B]log photog Mark Bralley, a Republican, said he received a mailer from his party directing him to the wrong polling location.
So there are misleading mailers along with those misleading phone calls floating about.
To see Gov. Bill Richardson and Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s responses, see my earlier post.