It seems some foul play is afoot in tomorrow's Republican 8th district Congressional primary in VA:
Amin Singh's campaign is accusing Ellmore of falsifying quotes in order to make Singh seem like a more extreme libertarian than mainstream conservative:

A flier put out by Mark W. Ellmore's campaign days before Tuesday's U.S. House Republican primary in Northern Virginia falsely attributes material to The Washington Post, an error pointed out by his opponent and confirmed by Ellmore's staff yesterday.

Ellmore is running against Amit Singh in the primary for a chance to challenge Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.), a nine-term incumbent.

The flier, which hit some mailboxes Friday, attributes the following photo caption to The Post: "Amit Singh with his political mentor Libertarian Ron Paul, who reportedly has plans to disrupt the Republican Convention in Minneapolis." Those words never appeared in the newspaper or as a quote elsewhere, and the photograph was not taken by The Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/07/AR2008060701801.html

This is really sad.

For more on this race, this Reason article is a good summary:
http://reason.com/news/show/126799.html


*Sorry for the subpar formatting, as Blogger is being really slow...I'll be back to fix it later.

Labels: 2008 Watch, Virginia

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