Within an hour last night of RedState tying the anti-Crist (no, not anti-Christ) Hitler video to Crist’s own campaign team in an effort to smear Marco Rubio, the website Crist’s team set up had been taken completely offline.
It’s back up today thanking RedState for giving it exposure. It’s kind of hard for us to send traffic their way when they have to take the site down. Notice, with the site back up, that they have scrubbed the Hitler video from the site, they have also completely scrubbed and redone the articles after we pointed out that they were violating the copyright laws of every major news organization in Florida, and they have not denied anything we’ve said.
But wait, there is more.
Rich Heffley, Charlie Crist’s campaign consultant, created the website.
Heffley rents his office space from the Republican Party of Florida at 420 E Jefferson Street in Tallahassee, FL.
Guess who also rents his campaign office space at the same address?
According to the Federal Elections Commission, Charlie Crist pays the Republican Party of Florida $1606.00 a month in rent for his campaign.
We know from the anti-Rubio website, before they scrubbed it, that Rich Heffley created this website from his office computer — the source file for at least one picture traced back to it.
It seems more than a little telling that Heffley, Crist, and the RPOF, the chairman of which has actively tried to bar Marco Rubio from appearing on the ballot for the Senate race, would all be working from the same building creating Hitler parodies and attack websites all in an effort to smear Rubio.
The irony is that the Crist campaign’s chief consultant is having to create fake Hitler videos attacking his own client in a lame effort to attack Rubio when all anyone would have to do to attack Crist is show this actual newscast. I wonder if Heffley will start circulating it next. Maybe that’s why he’s running the Katherine Harris – Marco Rubio connection right now.
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Has anyone called Domains By Proxy yet?
Joshua Persons (Diary) Thursday, October 29th at 10:04AM EST (link)Apparently, they’ve been known to respond to phone requests for information about domain owners. I’d suggest someone like Erick take point on this, rather than everyone call in at once.
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It would depend on whether there's a privacy filter.
Steph C (Diary) Thursday, October 29th at 10:50AM EST (link)Those cost extra money to keep owners’ names private. If they forward information that is supposed to be private, whether written or oral they’re in violation of laws.
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reddwarf (Diary) Thursday, October 29th at 10:17AM EST (link)Is this some kind of sockpuppet thingie?
What a lame attempt to save face...
KeepOhioRed (Diary) Thursday, October 29th at 10:22AM EST (link)Thanking RedState for the traffic?
All the traffic they are getting from this exposure is 100% pro-Rubio.
Weak, Charlie. Weak.
I caught this backhanded thanks crap somewhere around 12am or so Central
Richard Mullins (Diary) Thursday, October 29th at 10:43AM EST (link)and it was really crapy then and sure is now. We didn’t even drive this as an expose of Rubio but rather an expose of Crist. All the work that’s been done is to show criminal activity being done. I think I’m going to need to get a screen shot of it unless that’s been scrubbed too.
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Nope it's still there
Richard Mullins (Diary) Thursday, October 29th at 10:52AM EST (link)and it’s a good thing too I have a screen shot of it for posterity.
http://wp.me/pzyMi-4V
Oh well, we know what your doing.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Just to clarify
seandparnell (Diary) Thursday, October 29th at 1:10PM EST (link)The possible/probable illegality that Erick is referring to is two items:
1. The fact that Crist’s campaign consultant apparently set up the site as part of his employment/services for the campaign, but there is no disclaimer on the site indicating who paid for it. This is a fairly big no-no according to the FEC.
2. The fact that the Republican Party of Florida may have had a role in it, raising coordination issues.
The first is a pretty serious issue. Thinking a little more, I don’t think the second is – political parties are allowed to spend a certain amount of money in coordination with candidates, and the website is fairly rudimentary (my wife’s a web designer, so I’ve got some context on how much these things take to put together) so it probably didn’t cost much, almost certainly less than the amount parties are allowed to coordinate with candidates. As long as the FL GOP accounts for it out of their hard-dollar account, it’s fine.
Also, in terms of an in-kind contribution to the Crist campaign, at this point it’s value appears to be negative. ;->
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To bad nobody reported the website to the FEC....
DavidS1787 (Diary) Thursday, October 29th at 9:20PM EST (link)for investigation,
How do we know they didn't? Is it too late?
rcov092 (Diary) Thursday, October 29th at 9:26PM EST (link)I am game.
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If they did report the site to the FEC the Web sites should have been shutdown.....
DavidS1787 (Diary) Thursday, October 29th at 9:37PM EST (link)unless the don’t investigate web sites……..
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Theo (Diary) Thursday, October 29th at 11:20PM EST (link)I live in Tallahassee. If anyone has any ideas to go over to the RPOF building and ask some questions of people, let me know, I’d be happy to get some people on record.
Email me the suggestions: theo at theoretic dot com
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