GOP candidate charged with stealing from GOP opponent!!!

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From :http://coloradopols.com/archives/2005/10/holtzman_campai_1.html

Holtzman Campaign Files Criminal Complaint Against Beauprez

We posted on Saturday that Republican Marc Holtzman's campaign was
asking supporters for copies of an e-mail sent out by Republican Bob
Beauprez's campaign for governor. We said at the time that while the
request was suspicious, we weren't sure what Holtzman's camp was
looking for.

Well, today John Zakhem, attorney for the Holtzman camp, filed a
criminal complaint in Denver District Court against the Beauprez
campaign for Theft of Proprietary Information, a Class 1 Misdemeanor.
Apparently the Beauprez campaign sent out a mass fundraising e-mail
last week to 6,500 addresses that all came from Holtzman's personal
rolodex. How the Beauprez campaign got a hold of Holtzman's personal
rolodex is another story, but reportedly both the Rocky Mountain News
and Denver Post are working on that right now.

The Holtzman camp has been collecting information and talking to people
who received the e-mail and today filed the complaint after they felt
they had enough evidence. It is up to the Denver DA to file criminal
charges, but the Holtzman camp is contending that the pilfered list
contained hundreds or thousands of names that were not identifiable
donors and were only connected to the Colorado gubernatorial race
because they are private friends and/or acquaintences of Holtzman.

If the charges are true, this is an incredibly stupid move on the part
of the Beauprez campaign. They may try to explain this away as the work
of a rogue supporter or something like that, but apparently the e-mails
came from an address associated with Beauprez's campaign.

We'll update this story as we learn more. And once again, you heard it
here on Colorado Pols first.