Showing posts with label AZ-03. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AZ-03. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Curious Case of Credit Card Continues

The Curious Case of Credit Card gets more intriguing.

From Swing State Project:

...Democrats are demanding that Rep. John Shadegg fire his deputy campaign manager after learning that he accessed a Democratic Party office using a fake name and fake address.

Party officials believe that Ryan Anderson, who has claimed that he was at the party office to purchase a bumper sticker, provided the fake name and address. Anderson was only discovered because he left the Shadegg campaign's credit card in the Democratic party's office.

Records show that a person with the name "Bryan Anderson" filled out a contribution form, which is a legal document that the Arizona Democratic Party uses to report contributions to elections officials. The purchase of a bumper sticker is a contribution.

"Bryan Anderson's" address is a near-match to Ryan Anderson's. Every number in the street line of the address is one digit off. Democrats will not release Anderson's home address.

Anderson, a veteran Republican operative, previously worked at a major Republican lobbying firm in Phoenix. He also worked on Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.

Monday, October 20, 2008

AZ-03: Curious Case of Credit Card

Republican Rep. John Shadegg's credit card was found at Arizona Democratic Party's headquarter. Bizarre. Shadegg emailed a response "saying that a "volunteer" accidentally dropped the card while paying for an Obama bumper sticker."

Arizona Democratic Party did some investigating and it turns out the "volunteer" in question is Shadegg's deputy campaign manager and there are no records of him buying Obama bumper stickers. The Arizona Democratic Party believes that the Shadegg campaign was spying on his opponent and trying to gain information on their confidential strategy.

Follow the details of this case here.