How Low Can You Go?
I wrote yesterday about a particularly vicious and unpleasant piece of campaign mail that was sent by the Colorado Republican Party to voters in the 7th Congressional District, where Democrat Ed Perlmutter is opening a lead over Republican Rick O'Donnell.
I am sure you will share my sense of repugnance when you see the piece, which you can download as a PDF below.
Not only is it meant to strike fear into the heart of the average voter by insinuating that Perlmutter is a sex offender (an outright lie) but it twists the facts in a typically Republican way.
Republican Dottie Wham, the Denver Senator who sponsored the legislation that the mailer references, said that the tactic was 'sleazy' and pointed out that the bill was tabled at the request of law enforcement, and that she and Perlmutter passed a more-comprehensive bill on sex-offender notification the next year.
O'Donnell has so far refused to condemn the piece, claiming that he had no knowledge or control of it. That's not good enough. The tactic is sickening, and O'Donnell should denounce it. Anything else simply signals his complicity in the state party's repulsive action.
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