Poizner Campaign’s Sleazy Blog Tactics
RedCounty.com CEO Chip Hanlon posted about a discovery he made regarding the Steve Poizner for Governor campaign’s approach to our blog, RedCounty.com:
Someone should tell Steve Poizner that Red County would have covered his Gubernatorial campaign for free.
You see, I’ve recently learned something which, in retrospect, might not come as a complete shock to all our readersgiven the nature of his content: I have it in writing that the Poizner camp has been secretly paying one of our writers, “Sgt. York,” for favorable coverage all year long.
Now, to be fair, the Poizner camp wasn’t paying him directly. Instead, they were paying a “consultant,” and that person was paying our now-former writer. But it isa factthat theperson was paying York explicitly for pro-Poizner, anti-Whitman commentaries, articles specifically to be written on RedCounty.com.
I disclose this publicly here to preserve… Read More