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Fake web site set up
A fake web site and Twitter account for former U.S. representative Rob Portman set up by the Ohio Democratic Party paints him as a Washington insider who boosted the deficit and sent jobs overseas.
Portman is a Republican, former White House budget director and U.S. trade representative.
RobertPortman.com is modeled after Portman’s own site for his campaign for U.S. Senate against Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, a Democrat. The Twitter account, RobertPortman, tells visitor that he will keep them informed about his “failed record in Washington.” The web site includes a “Where did your job go” feature that allows a person to type in a job and a location. Typing in “manufacturing” results in a pop-up map of China and a claim that “Congressman Portman shipped your job here.”
Reached by phone on Thursday, Portman spokeswoman Jessica Towhey said Portman is the only candidate who has a plan to create jobs in Ohio and that Fisher, who also served as Ohio’s director of development before stepping down to run for senate, “failed miserably” in creating jobs.
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By scoobydo
May 10, 2010 10:11 AM | Link to this
Really, and the Portman Republican attack ad uses double entendres, smarmy lounge music and a screen shot of a shirtless Lee Fisher which is what the latest Mike Peters cartoon makes fun of is what? Example of great campaigning? Its Rove sleaze to the max, wake up, your Gop/conservative/right-winger/Teapots are not the holly rollers and standing on the high ground.
By Ho Hum
May 10, 2010 6:44 AM | Link to this
Another strategic and sladerous lie from Democrats. That’s news? Ho hum. Wake me up in 15 minutes.