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Certainly there are few election seasons in which candidates from either party don’t say or do something stupid or ill-advised. It’s an occupational hazard when you blow smoke for a living – doubly so if you relate to other humans about as effectively as a visitor on a boondoggle,"fact-finding" junket from Jupiter.Certainly there are few election seasons in which candidates from either party... more
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Sharron Angle, the former Nevada Republican candidate for the US Senate who lost to Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) in 2010, has announced that she is endorsing Rick Santorum.
In 2010 Sharron Angle, the Tea Party favorite, won her Primary against Sue Lowden who was backed by the Nevada GOP establishment.
With Mitt Romney seen as the GOP establishment candidate, Angles endorsement of Santorum is understandable, even though Newt Gingrich is trying to establish himself as the anti-establishment candidate, when he really is not.
http://www.examiner.com/democrat-in-las-vegas/nevada-tea-party-favorite-sharron-angle-endorses-rick-santorumSharron Angle, the former Nevada Republican candidate for the US Senate who lost to... more
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Now that Jared Lee Loughner's bullets have stopped flying, the air is thick with new bullets in the form of accusations and denials, proposed legislative actions, and the pros and cons of the Second Amendment. But most of these rhetorical bullets are far off the mark.Now that Jared Lee Loughner's bullets have stopped flying, the air is thick with... more
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A serious investigation into potential vote fraud needs to be launched immediately in Nevada, after incumbent Harry Reid beat Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle by a clear five points, despite pre-election polls showing Angle four points ahead, amidst suspicious evidence of vote flipping and other dirty tricks on behalf of the Reid campaign last week that were dubbed “criminal” by Angle’s campaign attorney.
Angle clearly had the momentum going into the election, having come from behind to take the lead over the Senate majority leader.
Four separate Rasmussen polls prior to the election had Angle ahead. Two weeks before Super Tuesday, she held a 50% to 47% lead over Reid. One week prior to voting, on October 26, her lead was extended to four points, with Angle at 49% and Reid at 45%.
Read More: http://globalpoliticalawakening.blogspot.com/2010/11/did-harry-reid-steal-nevada.htmlA serious investigation into potential vote fraud needs to be launched immediately in... more
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by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
The Republicans gained ground in last night’s midterm elections, recapturing the House and gaining seats in the Senate. The future House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) wasted no time in affirming that the GOP will try to repeal health care reform.
A full-scale repeal is unlikely in the next two years because the Democrats have retained control of the White House and the Senate. However, Republicans are already making noises about shutting down the government to force the issue. The House controls the nation’s purse strings, which confers significant leverage if the majority is willing to bring the government to a screeching halt to make a point.
Don’t assume they’ll blink. The GOP shut down government in 1995, albeit to its own political detriment. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and his allies have sworn a “blood oath” to shut down the government, regardless of the consequences. The Republicans may actually succeed in modifying minor aspects of the Affordable Care Act, such as the controversial 1099 reporting requirement for small business.
The most significant threat to the implementation of health care reform may be at the state level. Republicans picked up several governorships, and the Affordable Care Act requires the cooperation of states to set up their own insurance exchanges. Hostile governors could seriously impede things.
Mixed results for radical, anti-choice senate candidates
As a group, the eight ultra-radical, anti-choice Republican Senate candidates had mixed results last night. Three wins, two sure losses, and three likely losses that haven’t been definitively called. Voters didn’t seem thrilled about electing senators who oppose a woman’s right to abortion, even in cases of rape and incest.
Two cruised to victory: Rand Paul easily defeated Democrat Jack Conway in Kentucky. Paul is one of the most extreme the of a radical cohort. As Amie Newman reported in RH Reality Check, Paul doesn’t even believe in a woman’s right to abort to save her own life. In Florida, anti-choice standard bearer Marco Rubio defeated Independent Charlie Christ.
Another radical anti-choicer, Pat Toomey, who favors jailing abortion providers, narrowly edged out Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania.
Two were soundly defeated. Evangelical code-talker Sharron Angle lost to Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), and anti-masturbation crusader Christine O’Donnell lost to Chris Coons in Delaware.
The last three radical anti-choice senate candidates were down, but not, out as of this morning. Democrat Sen. Michael Bennett leads Republican Ken Buck by just 15,000 votes out of over 1.5 million ballots cast, according to TPMDC. Planned Parenthood launched an 11th hour offensive against Buck because of his retrograde stances on abortion, sexual assault, and other women’s issues, as Joseph Boven reports for the Colorado Independent.
This morning, Tea Party Republican Joe Miller was trailing behind incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who challenged him as an Independent, but no winner had been declared. In Washington State, Democrat Sen. Patti Murray maintains a 1% lead over radical anti-choicer Republican Dino Rossi.
Are fertilized eggs people in Colorado?
Coloradans won a decisive victory for reproductive rights last night. Fertilized eggs are still not people in Colorado, as Jodi Jacobson reports for RH Reality Check.
Amendment 62, which would have conferred full person status from the moment of conception, thereby outlawing abortion and in vitro fertilization. It also called into question the legality of many forms of birth control, including an array of medical procedures for pregnant women that might harm their fetuses. The proposed amendment was resoundingly defeated: 72% against to 28% in favor. This is the second time Colorado voters have rejected an egg-as-person amendment.
Blue Dogs and anti-choice Dems feel the pain
Last night was brutal for corporatist Democrats who fought the more progressive options for health care reform and Democrats who put their anti-choice ideology ahead passing health care. In AlterNet, Sarah Seltzer reports only 12 of the 34 Democrats who voted against health care reform hung on to their seats. The Blue Dog caucus was halved overnight from 56 to 24. Nick Baumann of Mother Jones speculated that the midterms would mark the end of the Stupak bloc, the coalition of anti-choice Democrats whose last-minute brinksmanship could have derailed health care reform.
Did foot-dragging on health care hurt Democrats?
Jamelle Bouie suggests at TAPPED that Democrats shot themselves in the foot by passing a health care reform bill that won’t provide tangible benefits to most people for years. The exchanges that are supposed to provide affordable insurance for millions of Americans won’t be up and running until 2014.
In Summer 2009, Former DNC chair Howard Dean predicted that the Democrats would be penalized at the polls if they failed to deliver tangible benefits from health care reform before the midterm elections. That’s why Dean suggested expanding the public health insurance programs we already have, rather than creating insurance exchanges from scratch.
Sink, sunk by Scott
Andy Kroll of Mother Jones profiles Rick Scott, the billionaire health clinic mogul, corporate fraudster, and enemy of health care reform who spent over $50 million of his own money to eke out a very narrow victory over Democrat Alex Sink in the Florida governor’s race.
Apparently, many Floridians were willing to overlook the fact that Scott had to pay a $1.7 billion fine for defrauding Medicare, the largest fine of its kind in history. Scott also spent $5 million of his own money to found Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, one of the leading independent groups opposing health care reform.
Pot isn’t legalized in California
California defeated Proposition 19, which would have legalized marijuana for personal use. David Borden of DRCnet, a pro-legalization group, writes in AlterNet that the fight over Prop 19 brought legalization into the political mainstream, even if the measure didn’t prevail at the polls. The initiative won the backing of the California NAACP, SEIU California, the National Black Police Association, and the National Latino Officers Association and other established groups.
So, what’s next for health care reform? The question everyone is asking is whether John Boehner will cave to the extremists in his own party and attempt a full-scale government shutdown, or whether the Republicans will content themselves with extracting piecemeal modifications of the health care law.
This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about health care by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. Visit the Pulse for a complete list of articles on health care reform, or follow us on Twitter. And for the best progressive reporting on critical economy, environment, health care and immigration issues, check out The Audit, The Mulch, and The Diaspora. This is a project of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets.by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
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by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger
Remember that horrible 2004 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ad that helped derail John Kerry’s 2004 presidential bid? Well, Bob Perry, the billionaire tycoon who financed that smear campaign is back, and he’s underwriting a barrage of dirty ads that target politicians he doesn’t like.
And this time around, the Supreme Court gave Perry cover in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling, which allows big donors to fund attacks anonymously.
Swift-boating Harry Reid
Eric Mack of the Public News Service profiles Perry in an interview with The Washington Independent’s Jesse Zwick. Perry is diverting the flow of his real estate fortune to right-wing front groups organized by Karl Rove. One of his biggest targets is Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), who is currently deadlocked in a close race with Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle.
Federal regulators cracked down on Perry’s Swift Boat group in 2004 for violating rules about registering and collecting “soft money” donations to fund direct attack ads, but the Citizens United decision renders those rules obsolete. We only know about Perry’s move to finance $7 million in attack ads because he pushed the money through an explicitly political organization. If he’d selected a different type of front-group, we would have never known—and Perry may be simultaneously funneling funds through other front-groups.
The storefronts of the front groups
An astonishing amount of money is flowing into the 2010 elections without any accountability whatsoever. As Andy Kroll and Siddhartha Mahanta reveal in a video for Mother Jones, much of the money is laundered through shadowy front-groups that don’t have to disclose their donors. Organizations with innocuous names like the 60-Plus Society and Alliance for America’s Future are funding multi-million-dollar ad campaigns attacking Democrats. But these operations deploy their big budgets in secrecy—operating out of P.O. Box addresses to keep reporters like Kroll and Mahanta from asking questions. When Kroll and Mahanta did track down these groups, at a row house in Arlington, VA, no one seemed to be able to answer questions. Watch:
Conservative groups benefit most
As Paul Waldman emphasizes for The American Prospect, there’s a lot of money in play here. Outside groups have already dumped $170 million into the elections, with conservative organizations making the lion’s share of the ad buys (as much as 9-to-1, depending on the analysis). The editors of The Nation note that corporate cash has helped drive the total price tag for the 2010 midterms to nearly $5 billion. “We are witnessing an assault on democracy by multinational corporations that, freed by the Citizens United ruling, are out to get the best government money can buy,” they write. As the editors say—whichever political party comes out on top on November 2, there’s one obvious loser: democracy.
But wait, there’s more!
* Be sure to check out Jesse Zwick at The Washington Independent on a lawsuit that wants to push back on the one thing that Citizens United doesn’t overturn: Foreign spending on domestic elections.
* The group that inspired boycotts against retail giant Target, MN Forward, has raked in $1.9 million so far this year, including $50,000 from the Republican Governors Association, reports Patrick Caldwell at The Minnesota Independent.
* And over at Campus Progress, Byard Duncan notes that James Cameron is using the powers of political spending to help progressives for once: the director has donated $1 million to the “No on Prop 23″ campaign, in an effort to keep the state’s climate protection law in place.
* I was on GRITtv with Laura Flanders last night discussing media coverage of campaign finance. The segment starts at 12:30:
This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about the mid-term elections and campaign financing by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. Visit The Media Consortium for more articles on these issues, or follow us on Twitter. And for the best progressive reporting on critical economy, environment, health care and immigration issues, check out The Audit, The Mulch, The Pulse, and The Diaspora. This is a project of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets.by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger
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NPR fired Juan Williams for saying he's nervous when Muslims board his plane. As expected, conservatives are howling to yank NPR funding and liberals are saying NPR jumped the gun. It's nice to see we've finally achieved bipartisanship by rallying around the notion that NPR sucks - unless, of course, you're an opera fan.NPR fired Juan Williams for saying he's nervous when Muslims board his plane. As... more
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Here's the thing. If you say racist things and can't come up with a better excuse than the dog ate my concept of equality, don't say them. Better yet, if you say racist things, own up to them and don't offer excuses.Here's the thing. If you say racist things and can't come up with a better... more
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In this farcical election season, it's hard to beat Christine O'Donnell, Sharron Angle, or Daniel Webster for sheer laughs! But, someone has and unsurprisingly it was a Bush - the supposed "smart" one, Jeb!In this farcical election season, it's hard to beat Christine O'Donnell,... more
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One frequent criticism from many on the right is that "the elites" run the country. And as with many things the right does and says, it does it without seeing the tiniest speck of irony. The irony being that in their unrelenting war on education and intellectualism, they are becoming the new elite running the country.One frequent criticism from many on the right is that "the elites" run the... more
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CNN's Rick Sanchez decided to go toe-to-toe with faux newser Jon Stewart and suffered the same fate as the last CNNer to do so - Tucker Carlson. However in the aftermath, we have a sort of "how many J-Words can dance on the tip of the tongue" argument brewing.CNN's Rick Sanchez decided to go toe-to-toe with faux newser Jon Stewart and... more
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In a secretly taped recording, Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle badmouths the GOP establishment and wheedles a minor-party candidate to support her campaign, offering help opening doors in Washington if she's elected.
The roughly made recording offers an unvarnished look into back-room politics, with tea party favorite Angle alternately nudging and cajoling candidate Scott Ashjian, whose support could be crucial in her bid to oust Majority Leader Harry Reid.
"I'm not sure you can win and I'm not sure I can win if you're hurting my chance, and that's the part that scares me," Angle says on the recording obtained by the Las Vegas Sun newspaper.
Angle is a tea party favorite with a history of breaking from the GOP ranks — in the state Senate, she was known for casting lone, dissenting votes on bills. She defeated the party's preferred candidate, Sue Lowden, in a come-from-behind victory in the June primary.
At one point she laments that the GOP leadership has "lost their standards, they've lost their principles." She refers derisively to "that good old boy thing" and depicts herself as an underdog David fighting Goliath — the constricting machinery of the national party. She tells Ashjian she wants the GOP leadership "to leave me alone," confident she knows how to defeat Reid.
Ashjian says that since 2001, he has considered Democrats and the GOP interchangeable.
"They are all thieves," he says. Angle adds, "It's really been since 1991."
She later assures him she can use her "juice" to arrange meetings with GOP leaders, including South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Apparently unimpressed, Ashjian replies he can make those calls on his own. He never gives Angle his blessing, though he says he likes her and points out they share conservative values.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101005/ap_on_el_se/us_nevada_senateIn a secretly taped recording, Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle badmouths the... more
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A random round up of WTF articles from around the intertubes. In this edition: bat fellatio and whale snot, condoms hidden in acorns, Rachael Maddow as a lesbian vampire, a brawl with giant dildos, sacred semen, and Jenny McCarthy's road kill genitals.A random round up of WTF articles from around the intertubes. In this edition: bat... more
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We have witches and Aqua Buddhas, satanic altars and demon sheep, nepotism, plagiarism and pornographic e-mails. Welcome to Election 2010! If the bid for the control of Congress were not enough to entertain us, we've seen some larger-than-life personalities and some bizarre subplots in races of national significance and minor importance. With a month to go before Election Day, it's still unclear whether Republicans can wrest control of House (possible) or the Senate (less likely). Here are 10 of the most entertaining races of 2010.
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Christine O'Donnell has generated such incredible buffoonery she could start an "All Christine, All the Time" cable channel. Rupert Murdoch might want to talk to her about it. They seem to be made for each other - a win/win of biblically crapulent, synergistic proportions.Christine O'Donnell has generated such incredible buffoonery she could start an... more
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by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
The woman gunning for Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-NV) job doesn’t believe that autism exists.
Yes, you heard right. Sharron Angle believes that the neurodevelopmental disorder know to medical science as “autism” is actually a government-backed hoax to redistribute wealth from hardworking health insurers to pesky kids and their greedy parents.
Angle was caught on tape promising to abolish mandatory insurance coverage for autism. “Everything that they want to throw at us is covered under ‘autism’,” Angle told the American Association of Underwriters this summer, tracing scare quotes with her fingers as she said “autism.”
Care2’s Kristina Chew, the mother of a 13-year-old boy with autism, responds to Angle’s airy dismissal:
…By saying that you don’t think there should be health care for autism, I take it that you don’t think that children, and individuals, with disabilities are in need of such things—living with their families and in their communities, healthy and safe, being loved and cared for? Being treated as we would all like to be?
The fact that Angle opposes mandated coverage for private insurers should concern voters, especially since she wants to privatize all government health care programs. In other words, Angle wants to turn health care over to the private sector and stamp out public competition. And yet, Angle’s campaign admits that the candidate and her husband receive both government health care and a Civil Service pension, according to Eric Kleefeld of TPM. If Angle is so morally opposed to government health care, she should set an example by declining the coverage.
Andy Kroll of Mother Jones has more on Angle’s record: She once told impregnated rape victims to buck up and make “lemons out of lemonade” by bearing their attacker’s child. Angle also denounced people on unemployment insurance as “spoiled.”
Food vs. health care
It may soon get even harder for poor families to make ends meet. The Senate is poised to slash the extra food stamp benefits in the stimulus before they expire. The Senate already raided $6.7 billion from the the so-called “food stamp cookie jar” to bail out Medicaid and save teachers’ jobs at the state level. Now they want to take even more money to fund the child nutrition bill.
The cuts would fund a marginal improvement in school lunches, notes Monica Potts of TAPPED. That’s all well and good, but why provide slightly better weekday lunches if the poorest children get less at every other meal?
Annie Lowery of the Washington Independent interviews anti-hunger activist Joel Berg about the cuts. Berg says that if the cuts go through, families will have to make do with considerably less than the current $4.50 per person per day. He notes that Congress wants to cut food stamp benefits in the face of rising food prices.
When families make do with less, healthy foods like fruits and vegetables will be the first casualty. Berg argues that it is economically short-sighted to prematurely terminate one of the most efficient economic stimuli in the entire stimulus package:
And we know that we aren’t only feeding people. We come at this from a moral position, a nutritional position, and an economic recovery position. This cut is so insane from an economic position as well — we know food stamps are the most effect form of stimulus. The jury is still out on parts of the stimulus — but the jury isn’t out on food stamps. It was a 1,000 percent, beyond home run grand slam success, if you’ll excuse me mixing metaphors. The money went to people who needed it, rapidly, and without a lot of bureaucracy.
In the Progressive, Ruth Conniff has a personal take on the politics of improving school lunches. Her kids’ school got a USDA Fresh Fruits and Vegetables grant to introduce more local produce into school meals.
“Bridalplasty”
The laws of Reality TV: 1) The most important thing in life is to be very beautiful so that a man will want to marry you; 2) You have until your wedding day to make yourself look like someone else.
The E! network is launching a new reality show in which brides-to-be receive free cosmetic surgery to make them look acceptable for their Special Day, as Stephanie Hallett reports at Ms. blog. Hallett notes that armchair psychiatrists are already diagnosing the contestants with Body Dysmorphic Disorder, a condition that causes sufferers to become obsessed with imagined physical imperfections.
Hallett also argues that competitive plastic surgery shows like Bridalplasty and The Swan are dramatic exaggerations. Labeling the contestants as “sick” or “crazy” implies that they are limited-edition freaks, not individuals on the extreme end of a continuum of self-loathing that affects most women.
Ectopic pregnancy
Anti-choicers have already attacked hormonal birth control as crypto-abortion. Their next target may be lifesaving surgery for a deadly complication of pregnancy. At RH Reality Check, Lon Newman writes about a young woman that survived a life threatening ectopic pregnancy.
An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg takes root outside the uterus, nearly always in a fallopian tube. Tubal pregnancies are among the deadliest gynecological emergencies because the woman can rapidly bleed to death if the tube ruptures. Obviously, once a fertilized egg takes root outside the uterus, there is no chance that it will survive. However, some anti-choice extremists still maintain that treating ectopic pregnancies is a kind of abortion.
One of the ectopic pregnancy survivor’s friends actually told her that she should have respected “God’s will” and refused lifesaving surgery. “I have had friends who said that I should have ‘gone with God’s will,’ imposing their beliefs on my will to live,” the woman said.
Some friend.
This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about health care by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. Visit the Pulse for a complete list of articles on health care reform, or follow us on Twitter. And for the best progressive reporting on critical economy, environment, health care and immigration issues, check out The Audit, The Mulch, and The Diaspora. This is a project of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets.by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
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Here's another fun wrinkle in the Nevada Senate race, where Republican nominee Sharron Angle supports privatizing Social Security and all the major federal health care programs: She and her husband receive their own health care and a pension through the federal government.
Granted, Angle's husband Ted Angle receives his pension and health care as a former federal employee -- not directly through a social welfare program. Then again, Angle's proposals to slash government aren't all that friendly to federal employees, either.
Angle spokeswoman Ciara Matthews said in a statement:
> "Mr. Ted Angle receives his pension through the (federal) Civil Service Retirement
> System. While it is not supplemented by the federal government, current civil servants
> pay into the program to pay the schedule of those already retired - much like how the
> Social Security Program works today. Mr. Angle does not qualify - nor does he receive
> Social Security benefits. His health insurance plan (the Federal Employee Health
> Program), which also covers Sharron, is a continuation of what he was receiving while
> he worked for the federal government."Here's another fun wrinkle in the Nevada Senate race, where Republican nominee... more
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Republicans have moved toward the outer fringes of their tent. In getting cozy with their ideological outer edge they've ended up with unsavory candidates like Jim Russell of NY. Now they're in the unenviable position of having to sue to have him removed from the ballot as the Republican candidate over charges he's a racist.Republicans have moved toward the outer fringes of their tent. In getting cozy with... more
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Sharron Angle hasn't been the beneficiary of much good press — and now that she's got some, she's being sued over how she's using it.
In a lawsuit filed Friday, Las Vegas-based Righthaven LLC says the Nevada Republican Senate nominee has violated copyright laws by posting two newspapers stories in their entirety on her campaign website.
The proposed remedy: Righthaven is asking a federal district judge for statutory damages for willful infringement of the two articles, attorneys’ fees and control of Angle’s domain name, sharronangle.com.
The two articles at issue — a pro-Angle editorial from July 21 and an Aug. 3 news story — both ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which has sold Righthaven the rights to its stories.
Even though it’s far from clear that a judge would cede control of Angle’s domain name to Righthaven, Kurt Opsahl, an attorney at the digital legal rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, said Righthaven's demand ups the pressure on the candidate.
“Sharron Angle is running for a Senate seat, and her domain name is her online face,” he noted. “It’s an important aspect of the campaign, and the fear of losing that domain name may push her, or any of these other defendants, into settlement.”
The Angle campaign is no stranger to copyright issues. In June, Angle’s campaign committee fired off an angrily worded cease-and-desist letter to Sen. Harry Reid’s offices after the majority leader's campaign committee posted a copy of her entire pre-June victory campaign website at therealsharronangle.com. Reid’s campaign said the purpose was to stop Angle from hiding her “extreme” positions from the general electorate.
Neither Righthaven nor Angle’s campaign could be reached for comment over the weekend, but Angle’s staff has altered the offending pages to now carry only excerpts of the two stories, with links back to the original items.
Angle now has the option of settling the case filed by Righthaven or beginning to litigate the complex copyright issues in federal court.
Asked how much Angle could be liable for, or what Righthaven might demand, Elizabeth Rader, an intellectual property attorney at the law firm of Alston & Bird, responded: “How much money does she have?”
It’s a pertinent question, since Angle’s campaign started off on a shoestring earlier this year but has gained financial momentum — especially in the wake of her June victory in the Republican primary. An Associated Press story in July noted that Angle had bested Democratic incumbent Reid’s fundraising efforts between April and July, though his $9 million war chest at the time still dwarfed her $1.8 million campaign kitty.
That number may have attracted the attention of Righthaven, which has started up a business by launching a Recording Industry Association of America-style mass litigation campaign against individuals, small blogs and websites that it charges with copyright infringement for posting articles from the Las Vegas Review-Journal.Sharron Angle hasn't been the beneficiary of much good press — and now that... more
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