Group with liberal name but GOP links attacks Democratic Senate candidates

[Baitball Blogger]

A Republican-linked group operating under a liberal-sounding name is targeting Democratic candidates in competitive state Senate races across Florida.

The group, known only as "Progressives," has paid for mail pieces that attack at least three Democratic Senate candidates — two in Central Florida and one in South Florida. In each case, the mailers are designed to undermine the candidates' popularity with Democratic voters.

One piece slammed state Rep. Darren Soto, D-Orlando, for voting in 2008 for a National Rifle Association-backed bill allowing employees to keep guns in their cars when they park at work. Soto is running against Republican personal-injury lawyer Will McBride in a Central Florida district that includes parts of Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties.

Another mailer criticized Volusia County Chairman Frank Bruno for voting to raise the county's gas tax more than 20 years ago. Bruno faces Rep. Dorothy Hukill, R-Port Orange, in a district that takes in parts of Volusia, Lake and Marion counties


http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-09-07/news/os-republican-group-attacking-democrats-20120907_1_democratic-senate-candidates-maria-sachs-progressives

[ananda]

1. How dishonest and pathetic.

nt

[Baitball Blogger]

2. But, typical.

I'm glad they got caught.

[rsweets]

3. Gosh, I wonder who's behind this....not

In the fall of 1970, Rove used a false identity to enter the campaign office of Democrat Alan J. Dixon, who was running for Treasurer of Illinois. He stole 1000 sheets of paper with campaign letterhead, printed fake campaign rally fliers promising "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing", and distributed them at rock concerts and homeless shelters, with the effect of disrupting Dixon's rally. (Dixon eventually won the election). Rove's role would not become publicly known until August 1973.

[link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove|