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January 18, 2008

Something's rotten in Oregon

Liz Kimmerly, a senior staffer with the Steve Novick for Senate campaign has been caught with her hand in the proverbial cookie jar and it stinks to high heaven.

On Tuesday, the Merkley campaign got an email inviting Jeff Merkley to an endorsement meeting this Saturday for the Portland chapter of the Progressive Democrats of America.

Four days notice is pretty tight for an endorsement meeting, but that was only the first red flag.

The email was sent by the "State Coordinator" of the Progressive Democrats of America.... Liz Kimmerly. Who is Liz Kimmerly? She's a senior staffer for the Novick for Senate campaign.

That's right: The endorsement process by which the PDA would endorse a U.S. Senate candidate is being organized by the staff of one of the candidates. (I've posted a copy of the email after the jump.)

The full details are available over at Blue Oregon

The only thing that I'll add here is that we've all watched as elements of the rightwing pulled every dirty trick they could think of to defeat political opponents. Those of us who have rightly been harshly critical of such unethical behavior HAVE TO hold both sides to the same standard!! Anything less would be rank hypocrisy.

Posted by Kevin at January 18, 2008 05:44 PM