'We really screwed up,' says Idaho Senate candidate after emails to YMCA members

[TexasTowelie]

Jeff Sayer (R) was feeling pretty excited on Wednesday evening when he hit “send” on an email to about 19,000 people, announcing his campaign for an Idaho Senate seat. Within minutes, he was devastated.

“We really screwed up is the short answer,” he told the Statesman. “We did not do it intentionally. Our whole team is just sick about happened. We are trying to do everything we can to make this right.”

So what did Sayer do? The former Idaho Department of Commerce director is running for the District 14 Senate seat currently held by Sen. Marv Hagedorn. (Hagedorn, in turn, is running for lieutenant governor.)

To create that master list of 19,000 potential supporters for his announcement, Sayer and his team compiled mailing lists obtained from various political circles and marketing sources. Among those was a list of Treasure Valley YMCA members.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article181169966.html

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1. he'll never make it as a republican with all that apologizing.

he has to figure out a way to make it hillary's fault. or obama's.

[Deb]

2. Wink,wink

This is typical dirty Republican politics for rural ny.