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That people will realize he's Uriah Heep?
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Hidden cameras next time.
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Are politicians even aware of YouTube? They do realize that this kind of shit will end up on the web in about ten minutes after it happens, don't they? Or do they just assume that most voters don't give a shit?
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A wild Cameraman appeared!
McKenna used Scary Look!
It's not very effective.
McKenna ran away!
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Covered at Goldy's old haunt...

Rs are bitching that it was a private event. But, it's a King county facility and the contract that someone signed explicitly states that NO ONE will be denied access to the space that is still public during the event. But, but, but...say King County Young Republicans, we are a private dues paying organization and you need to be a paid member. (Ignoring the contract they signed of course.)

"Official membership is $20 per year. All Republicans 18-39 are welcome to attend, and associate memberships are also available to other Republicans who are 18-39 at heart. For more information, just drop by one of our meetings or events, or email kingcountyyr@yahoo.com or fill out and mail in this form." KCYR web site.

So, you don't actually have to pay to attend. Says so right on your website. Don't even have to be a member.

"But, but, but, but, we have no legal leg to stand on but we'll call the cops anyway. We're REPUBLICANS, we don't follow the rules. EVER!"
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McKenna will soon have to learn there's no way he'll be able to avoid this. He might as well quit being such a diva, with his fancy new contact lenses and all.

When I saw the first headline about this the other day on publicola I assumed Zack was an intrepid volunteer filmer, but I'm really kind of proud the party I support is spending money to hire people like him and retain the town's most expensive lawyers to back up their effort. (My party donations are going to a particularly zesty form of economic stimulus!)

Now today the NYT has a big article "Trailing G.O.P. With Cameras, Seeking Gaffes" that points out just how large-scale an effort Democratic orgs are making on this - Zack vs. Rob looks like just the first trickle of the flood Republican candidates are going to be facing. In the case of McKenna it's a perfect fit:
The organization has hired a dozen professional trackers like Mr. Fielding, outfitted them with the latest high-tech cameras and computers and positioned them in key states where Republican candidates are busy chattering away to voters. If all works as planned, incriminating moments captured by American Bridge will quickly become part of the political bloodstream.

Combined with a team of 20 researchers in a Washington “war room” that has a large rack of computer servers, the effort is part of a push by Democratic groups to bolster their opposition research. Republicans also have trackers, but so far have not assembled the kind of centralized video archive of political caught-on-tape moments that their rivals envision.

“Our obligation here is to get these guys on the record with what they really believe so they can’t walk away from their record,” said Rodell Mollineau, a former aide to Senator Harry Reid of Nevada and the group’s president. “There are many opportunities for us to record Republicans showing their true colors.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/us/pol…
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Did the police come? Was the cameraman arrested? If so, will someone have to sue McKenna over violating public accommodation laws?
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@6

So...the Democrat party strategy is to stalk their opponents looking for things to take out of context or lie about?

Yep, that sounds about right.
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@8: The worst thing you can do to a panderer, left or right, is reproduce the words they say to their most extreme supporters.
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Not making any kind of equivalence here whatsoever, but I would like to point out for the historical trivia of it, that this is basically what Ted Bundy did before he got his "start".

http://classifiedhumanity.com/post/45183…
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Isn't McKenna supposed to be some kind of lawyer?

How do they have the balls to ask someone to stop recording them at a public meeting?

They should know better.

Though the cameraman should never have provided anyone any information.
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@8, the comic thing about your observation is that the driving force behind American Bridge is David Brock, the thoroughly odious former closet case right-wing flack for the American Spectator, who broke and hyped the "Troopergate" story against Clinton, was a GOP dirty-trickster darling for many years, then had a change of heart. He's still a massive opportunist and self-promoter, but y'all's the ones foolish enough to give him his start. Put another way you might understand:
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
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Wikipedia on 'dirty tricks':
Thomas Jefferson hired journalist and pamphleteer James Thomas Callender to slander his opponent, Alexander Hamilton. After a falling out, Callender turned on Jefferson and published attacks on his previous employer.

The Nixon Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP), a private non-governmental campaign entity, used funds from its coffers to pay for, and later cover up, "dirty tricks" performed against opponents by Richard Nixon's employee, Donald Segretti. Segretti famously coined the term 'ratfucking' for recruiting conservative members to infiltrate opposition groups (and/or misrepresent them through false flag activities) in order to undermine the effectiveness of such opposition.

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To a Republican, the typical paid Democrat partisan wearing the de riguer Moore cap appears as a crazed Oswald.

Next time, dress for the occasion instead of assaulting the AG on stage.
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@14, sitting quietly in the front row with an open camera is assault? mmkay..
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Btw, that's not a spam link. Hidden cameras are cheap these days.
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@12

Umm hmm. Brock couldn't fit in with Republicans and found his true spiritual home with the Dems. Not exactly helping your side, is it?

Point is, Democrats have so little real vision of their own that they have to resort to slandering the opposition. (See Goldstein and McKenna or Savage and Constant with their scurilous and vulgar attacks on Mr. Santorum for reference.)

How about the Dems get your own ideas and run on them, just for a change?
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@17: be careful if you're not clearly in a public space. Washington is a two-party-consent state, and if it's some kind of a closed meeting, you could get charged by an overzealous prosecutor for wiretapping.
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@18: Do you take sleeping pills?
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@ SB, cameramen are within their rights to go anywhere public and take pictures. Sounds like you hate freedom and America to me.

(BTW, learn English, will you? "Democrat" is a noun, not an adjective.)
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I think cameras are much nicer than auto dialing people's houses and asking if voters would still vote for a specific candidate if they knew he had an illegitimate black child (Bush did this to McCain)

There are much dirtier trick than camera play.
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@18 - You're right.

Slandering a Republican = quoting them verbatim.
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I thought Savage said we need to go easier on this lady...dog was given back and all. Calm the fuck down...oh wait, this is where Savage wants to freak the fuck out? Nevermind, I'm on board.
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Hidden cameras, junk accounts, and uploading YouTube videos from coffee shops. Screw overzealous prosecutors abusing wiretapping laws, the public needs to know what the panderers are pandering.
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@3 - considering the election isn't for a year and a half, most voters don't give a shit.
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Calling the police...what a bunch of pansies.

I love it when a politician's own words are used against him.
I love it when a politician's long record do not support his pandering positions.
The notion that Slade's little minion is moderate...funny.
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@6 is correct.

Surrender, McKenna, your life is on YouTube.

Especially the part where you stole that little girls doughnuts and made her cry.

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