OMFG! Bush campaign emails accidentally sent to Bush parody site

[quaoar]

http://www.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/index.asp


Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -- For months, campaign staffers for President Bush and other Republican operatives have been sending internal memos and other documents, some of them sensitive, to the wrong e-mail address.
That is how the world learned this week of a so-called “caging” list consisting largely of black voters in Florida, who critics say were likely targets of GOP voter challenges.
The errant e-mails were sent to georgewbush.org instead of georgewbush.com. To Republicans’ dismay, www.georgewbush.org is a satirical site that pokes fun at the president -- and is displaying many of those e-mails.

< snip >

Posted on the Web site now, for public viewing, is material related to the campaign’s battleground state strategy, internal fretting over Democratic candidate John F. Kerry’s gains on the stem-cell issue, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s scripts for automated calls to Spanish-speaking voters encouraging early voting -- even discussion by a presumably young GOP admirer of presidential daughter Barbara Bush, who was advised by one correspondent to “stay away from (twin sister) Jenna or things could get ugly.”

[JohnnyCougar]

1. Is this really in the LA times?

where is the link to the article!?

[quaoar]

56. here it is

http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/timespoll/la-na-bushweb28oct28,1,2791907.story

[djg21]

2. Can you post the link to the LA Times Story?

[quaoar]

5. The LA Times moved the story on the wire services

The emails are all posted at the georgewbush.org site link

[Rjnerd]

11. Still waiting for it to hit yahoo...

[Gaffey Duck]

3. Whose side is God on again?

Between the bizarre bad luck and ineptitude for the GOP in the Senate, Tom DeLay's House struggle, record Dem turn-out in TX, and nw this.

Somebody upstairs really doesn't like Bush.

[LittleClarkie]

19. I do believe you are right, Gaffey

Except that I wouldn't say necessarily, as Bush has tried to, that God is on our side. Rather, as our Johnny said at the DNC, perhaps we are on God's side.

[belle]

38. "The Lord helps those who help themselves..."

[Tesibria]

4. links - but not to LA Times

...
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63949-2004Oct26.html

New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/246575p-211224c.html

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. OK...I have to ask

I've been seeing this "caging" word. What, exactly, is caging?

(Jeez, I feel so stupid :cry:)

[CityHall]

26. Seems to refer to challenging voters

No one's posted the origins of the word - I don't think they plan to lock anyone up on election day. The lists are of people whose mail was returned as undeliverable at the address they registered from.

[progdonkey]

30. organized voter challenging

The Republicans apparently intend to use the list to keep an eye out for Democrats at the polls, so they can challenge (read: intimidate) largely-minority Dem voters.

In effect, they will be "caging" them by challenging them at the polls, thereby requiring the people on the list to fill out a provisional ballot that may or may not get counted; the use of the word probably comes from the idea that the challenged voter is being boxed-in and forced to go through extra hurdles to vote, instead of being completely free to vote normally.

Also, challenging voters is very time consuming. Say it adds just an extra minute per challenged voter to the time people wait in line. If 30 of the people on the list are in front of you in the line, that's an extra 30 minutes you're just standing there--and that's with the conservative estimate of just one minute! If someone is spending his lunch break to vote, he doesn't exactly have all this extra time to stand in line, and many people will just give up and go back to work.

[dorktv]

52. Legally he does...You are allowed up to three hours off

paid by your employer to vote.


I foget the statute...does anyone else know?

[gavodotcom]

43. C.A.G.E.

Challenge All Ghetto Elections?

That's not right, of course, but I'm thinking it's the verb form of an acronym.

[quaoar]

7. Here's one of the emails

This can be found at the link posted in the original message:

-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 10:30 AM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: FW: Response to Kerry's Stem Cell Attack

something needs to be done about this (below). can't we say something intelligent? can't Bush announce something progressive like dedicating even more federal funds to stem cells and other, more advanced areas such as cord blood? i am so tired of this nuttiness. (and when he says he was first prez to dedicate funds, the dem retort is that this research was not around several years ago, and amount is insignificant)

when healthcare is discussed next debate, things like stem cells and health care insurance and expensive drugs could bury him. i hope this is registering out there.

[George_S]

25. schmidtpa.com = Schmidt Public Affairs

John A. Schmidt, a former aide to the late Republican National Committee chairman Lee Atwater, has left Edelman Public Relations, where he was a senior vice president, to set up his own shop, Schmidt Public Affairs. He will specialize in "strategic public affairs management" of health care and reimbursement issues regarding Medicare and Medicaid.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41043-2004May19_2.html

[cynatnite]

8. This is so great! n/t

dupe

[Rjnerd]

9. Dan Froomkin

Mentioned it in his Washington post collumn, yesterday (just that it happened) and today (quick summary of the Pallast story).

Apparently Randi Rhodes mentioned it on air, and they just got paniced email from what sounded like a terrified freeper, saying the page slipped out (apparently not realizing that it was a parody site, run by lefties, who put it up intentionally). Should be amusing to see what happens when it hits the freep....

Hopefully they have had time to harden the page..

[seabeyond]

10. was on olderman tonite too n/t

[0rganism]

12. Check out this choice bit from one of the e-mails....

========================================================================
This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If it
has been sent to you in error, please reply to advise the sender of the
error and then immediately delete this message.
========================================================================

Well, now, if it's so damn sensitive WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T THEY ENCRYPT IT?

Why should we trust these dickweeds with national security when they don't even know how to protect their campaign e-mails?

[Rjnerd]

15. But encryption is a munition...

Less so than before, but there are still controls on "good" encryption. As a result, things like Outlook don't include it.

(basically if it is strong enough to take more than a day for NSA to brute force crack, its too good for the general public. This is an improvement over the old rules that kept exportable keys down to the under an hour on standard hardware crack time)

The intelligence community considers this a feature...

[0rganism]

27. "Good" encryption? They didn't even ROT-13 it, ferchrissakes

This is not rocket science. Just freakin' download/compile a crypto engine from gnu.org and run your files through it before you send them to your buddies.

These guys don't appear to grok the obvious implications of the fact that once their precious packets leave the safety of their happy little firewalled LAN, they don't know who's sniffing their mail -- even when they send it to the right addresses. I'm beginning to think that spying on our government would be somewhat easier than it looks in movies...

[Rjnerd]

33. Remember, we are talking about

Republican political operative Micro$oft customers. If it isn't included in the "for dummies" book, they don't know its possible to do.

These are people I could never convince to do one of my mini junkyard wars team building programs, as while they are good customers for things like rock wall sessions, they are tool phobic, and the idea of having to solve a (GAK) mechanical problem, then actually build it, without step-by-step instructions for the handyman to follow.... Tiny plug Rubbish Deconstruction League, after all I don't have a star, as I am a victim of the "booming" Bush hi-tech economy.

Hopefully we have actual professionals handling network security for the white house. But having helped at a number of them (admittedly a biased viewpoint, as they were always democratic) I am convinced "campaign organization" ranks up with "management science" and "millitary intelligence" in the oxymoron department, so I wouldn't be surprised about what we would collect if we simply parked outside the building, wireless ethernet enabled... National HQ is likely secure, but one of the regional offices...

[Blue_Tires]

60. good site!

[Skittles]

48. I used an encryption service using Outlook at work

HIPAA reg for doctor/dentist/patient info. Yes, if I wanted to exclate an error to include the file I had to encrypt it.

[Gaffey Duck]

20. I can explain using one "word".

Internets

[American liberal]

13. I first read about this here!

So glad to hear the dailies have picked it up! Great stuff!

Please forgive my moment of...stupidity *for lack of better words* but I just had a terrible thought: what if in spite of all the terrible things happening to the GOP right now, they still manage to pull it off somehow. Please don't yell at me. I've been extremely optimistic throughout this whole process...I just can't even entertain the possibility.

Peace,
AL

[Erika]

17. If Bush "Wins"

We'll watch him sell out the country and the sheeple Bushies and freepers will talk about how great it is to live in a country that allows beans and rice for everyone and electricity three hours a day.

[krkaufman]

14. VIDEO on this, from tonight's 'Countdown' on MSNBC

http://home.comcast.net/~hugh.moore/Countdown_georgewbush-org.wmv

[Born_A_Truman]

21. Gotham document

On the georgewbush.org page, there is an email about a Gotham gathering.

If you click on the attachment (.pdf) to this email re: Rove, on page 02 it says "Pfizer is primary sponsor, which is confidential."

Why would that have to be confidential? Also, on the same attachment, note the media invites.

[progressivebydesign]

16. I hope the "caging' thing takes off.. for the world to see!!!

.. because, regardless of its origins, it sounds so inflammatory and racist! AND.. it's so WRONG!!

[0rganism]

47. The Caging.xls is the same list Greg Pallast was reporting on 10/26

(for those who haven't read it yet)
http://www.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/index.asp

10.26.2004: Readers may be interested to learn that the "caging" e-mails below (one and two) are indeed the same documents referenced in Greg Palast's latest BBC Newsnight investigation. We sent them to him last week prior to assembling this page.

New Florida vote scandal feared

By Greg Palast
Reporting for Newsnight

A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.

Two e-mails, prepared for the executive director of the Bush campaign in Florida and the campaign's national research director in Washington DC, contain a 15-page so-called "caging list".

It lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida.

An elections supervisor in Tallahassee, when shown the list, told Newsnight: "The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge voters on election day."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3956129.stm

[Rjnerd]

18. Someone that doesn't get it....

SUBJECT = EMERGENCY ATTN: Website: dead letter office
NAME = alexandra
MESSAGE = The website address ... Georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice is being furnished to left wing media by Randi Rhodes on the radio RIGHT NOW. You need to shut down that page IMMEDIATELY. It provides access to all.

[George_S]

29. Save the pages so we have copies!

In case they shut it down.

[Roland99]

22. Great find! Thanks! Added a link to my site (link below)

:D

Kerry was right when he called them the most lying, corrupt....

[quaoar]

23. I think this guy is in BIG trouble

In this email there is included a picture of Bush and one of the twins

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Krabill
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:34 PM
To: Donald Povia ; Thomas Roberts ; Jon Seaton ; Jennifer Williams
Subject: Spam Alert: RE: i think
Just stay away from Jenna or things could get ugly.

RJK

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Povia
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:26 PM
To: Thomas Roberts; 'Jon Seaton'; Ryan Krabill; Jennifer Williams
Subject: i think
She and I would look good together…



Tue Jul 13,11:44 AM ET
U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and his daughter Barbara walk from the Marine One helicopter to Air Force One, July 13, 2004 at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, just outside Washington. Bush and his daughter are traveling to the Midwest for a two-day campaign trip. REUTERS/Larry Downing

Don Povia
Washington State Field Representative
Bush-Cheney '04, Inc.
[e-mail]
Office: 866.660.BUSH
Direct: 425.688.0148
Cell: 425.736.9186
Fax: [phone]
www.georgewbush.com

[tabasco]

24. The internets are complimicated !

It's hard work sending emails to the right people.

[gardenista]

35. All those .coms and .orgs! Why can't there just be one internets!? nt

[Rjnerd]

28. figure its due a repost: Anyone want to do the obvious photoshop

This clearly needs to be a mastercard meme.


Over a picture of a typical blogger at keyboard (perhaps wbush.org's operator? There is a cute picture of him at 13 or so, on a white house visit)

Registering a parody domain name, $70.
100mb server account $40/month.
Web page design software $49.95
Clueless republican staffer using the wrong TLD and sending you secret files describing possible election fraud: Priceless...

Over picture of drunken frat boy preppy type (say from one of the
pictures they sent)

Laptop $1,495
Blackberry $699
AOL account $24.95
Republican staffer confusing .org and .com, and forwarding sensitive
campaign documents to left wing bloggers, Priceless.

[George_S]

31. Church_Lists.xls

What is this list?

[Bucky]

32. Cute, it's an Excel file of churches helping them GOTV in Minnesota

Dems use churches extensively to drum up voter turn out, so it's probably not something we can use.

[George_S]

36. That's legal?

If the churches are working under their orders or guidance, then they are affiliated more than non-partisan, no?

[Bucky]

37. Depends on how they do it. Note this "objective" voter guide

This is the voter guide they're working toward distributing among churches. It's being passed along by the Bushies, but it's nominally non partisan. The intent is plain as day, but it uses code terms and carefully chosen non-preferential language.

How a "Christian" ought to vote is made clear, but it was also clearly designed to beat any serious legal challenges to its nonpartisan nature.

You can view it by going here and clicking on the top email's attachment
(called "Dear-Fellow-American0001.g i f")

[George_S]

44. Thanks. That makes sense, I guess.

But for them to be coordinating it seems a little over the top. If the churches made it, sure.

But maybe we do the same thing.

[diamond14]

40. not ONE single CATHOLIC CHURCH on the bush* church list

guess that's why bush* is in FULL ATTACK against Kerry on a the 'communion' crap, and expelling Kerry from the Catholic Church....LOL....bush* knows NOTHING about Catholics or the Catholic Church...and obviously has NO CATHOLIC supporters on his fundi-church lists....

"Catholics for JFK"....bye bye bush*...don't let the door hit you on the way out......

[Dem2theMax]

46. The church lists were made by the Bush/Cheney 04 campaign,

NOT by the churches. I know, because I downloaded them and looked all over the place. If you do the same, look under 'Properties' and you'll see who the files belong to.

Churches are NOT supposed to get voters to register, are they? Because that is on the list. Also, on one of the church lists, one of the questions is did they get the church directory. A big no-no, one you may remember from months ago.

I sent both of these files off to an organization that deals with the separation of church and state. They sue when they find someone who done wrong. :) I sent the files two or three days ago. Haven't heard anything back. But didn't think I would. I gave them all they need and it's up to them to go from there. :)

[George_S]

34. Connected to the Churches

But they don't endorse any one candidate, right?

[Roland99]

39. Even NOAA people are Busheep???

-----Original Message-----
From: Perino, Dana M.
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:44 PM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Fw: How is it going?
-----Original Message-----
From: Anderson, David R.
To: Connaughton, James ; Perino, Dana M. ; Greene, William ; Becker, Glynda A.
Sent: Tue Aug 31 21:41:52 2004
Subject: Fw: How is it going?

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Ungerecht
To: Anderson, David R.
CC: [e-mail]
Sent: Tue Aug 31 18:35:40 2004
Subject: Re: How is it going?

The call lasted a little longer than it should have been allowed, but I think Bob got through the questions pretty well. Incidentally, I don't know how they got the number, but about 8 or 10 enviro reps were called as the sequence of the callers were recognized. Luckily, none of them were given an opportunity to ask a question.

[diamond14]

57. what is these GOVERNMENT sheeple's positions at NOAA???

why are they allowed to campaign for bush* and deliberately LIE to the American public, using OUR tax money....this is horrid....

[Roland99]

41. Ooooo...they sound confident......NOT!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Jane Aurdal
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 2:02 PM
To: dullain Ehrlich ; 'Donald Povia' ; Jon Seaton ; 'Peter Abbarno'
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Volunteer Recruitment

Hey, Dullain, you gotta admit that when we start a campaign to oust Kerry and elect a Republican President in 2008, Evelyn will have all her homework done .... Meanwhile, she seems to be a "permanent fixture," as in "this whole campaign will fall apart without her."
-- anonymous

[Roland99]

42. Want to call some churches & inform them of IRS/Election laws?

Denomination Church Phone Number Pastor Notes
EFCA Calvary EFC 507-282-4612 Gene Follis Faxed Citizen
Cov Salem Covanent Church 507288-9601
AoG Rochester AoG 507-288-0868 Randy Stoecker
Bapt Calvary Baptist Church 507-289-6750 Dwight LaPine Faxed Citizen
Bapt First Baptisit 507-288-8880 John Steer Called 8/2
Cov Rochester Covanent 507-289-2990 Called 8/2
Luth Hosanna Luthern Church 507-285-0092 Howard Reinschmidt
Luth Zumbro Luthern Church 507-288-2649
Luth Grace Luthern Church 507-289-7833
Luth Gloria Dei Luthern 507-289-1841
Luth Mt. Olive Luthern 507-288-1580
Luth Bethel Luthern 507-288-6430
Bapt Midwest Baptists 507-259-8866 Dan Dunfey
Bapt Victory Baptist 507-289-2966 Darrel Moller Called 8/2
EFCA Crosswinds Church 507-281-5636 Doug
Pres Community Presbyterian 507-280-9291
Pres Trinity Presybeterian 507-282-6377
EFCA Bethel EFC 507-235-5513 Called 8/2
Luth Christ Luthern Church 507-289-0271
507-252-0336
Bapt Chinese Christian Center
Luth Good Shepard Luthern 507-289-1748
Non Dem Oak Tree Church 507-252-0452
Non Dem Meadow Park 507-288-3293
EFCA Christ Community 507-282-5569
Non Dem Faith Family Church 507-280-9733 Denis Frost

[humanbeing]

45. this is OLDDDDDDDDDDDD

we covered this about 2 days ago, and all the things you guys are saying have been covered (like mirroring the files).

why are we still rehashing this? it was even on the front page.

[Habibi]

51. Um, because it's being reported in the mainstream media now

Big difference.

[Fluffdaddy]

49. KERRY Needs to slam bush with this “caging” list TODAY.

AND HARD.

[Fluffdaddy]

50. In every speech all damn weekend.

Bush you Bitch !! Damn I'm pissed

[Piperay]

53. LOL

this is too funny ... Bwahahahahaha! :evilgrin:

[Gaffey Duck]

54. Kick

:kick:

[quaoar]

55. Here's the LA Times link

Finally found it.

http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/timespoll/la-na-bushweb28oct28,1,2791907.story

[KitSileya]

58. OMG I wasn't aware the official site has been closed to non-Americans!

Part of the curriculum in senior class English in Norwegian high schools is the political parties, and the election process of the US. Of course, this year, we teach that part in Fall term, because it's so topical. That our students be able to access the websites of the presidential candidates is a real boon - but I'm afraid Bush is really shooting himself in the foot when it comes to his reputation abroad by closing his website to international surfers. My students aren't predisposed to liking him to begin with, and when they learn they've been shut out of his website....oh my. We must try to teach these subjects impartially, so I cannot encourage them towards one candidate or the other - but it does seem as if Bush is doing, if not my job, then my private interests for me.

But what can you expect from a man who believes there are several internets, and whose Vice President doesn't know the difference between .com and .org even tho' he confidently announces urls to the public?

KitSileya

[sandboxface]

59. This is good news!

[swag]

61. Wow, that crew really has problems with the url's, don't they

First this, then factcheck.com

Fucking idiots. They should just stick to inventing hydrogen cars, and leave the Internets to us.